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I hate this either or crap. Few people want to live in 100% privately run or 100% government run society/economy.
I just heard a debate from someone that was adhering very closely to the Marx definition: “Under Communism, money would not exist”.
I can’t affirmatively say it wouldn’t work, but it is such a wild move from where we are, I can’t see pushing it on anyone with any assemblance of caution. Socialism can still be a sliding scale, and we can definitely turn it way up in a world where money exists, without any chance of causing harm.
see that is the thing. I have had people tell me marxist or true socialism you would still buy and sell things and then they repeat agnosium that the workers control the means of production. I find no one who is a big proponent can really say how its going to function except by good vibes.
I'm all for world wide wealth caps. Of any one has a measured wealth of say 5 million or more, 100% of their income goes to taxes.
This way we can keep everything the same, we just cut off the excesses by putting some sane rules at the base of the system
Nobody can have a net worth of over 5M, meaning that nobody can become crazy powerful. Governments get huge influx of resources, which can we used for universal healthcare, education, etc. all while keeping the world pretty much the same
Also, companies over a certain size should
to ensure fair play, good working conditions and a long-term stable market.
Myself I would allow for people to be rich and would just use a very large tax rate. when takes went over 90% it effecitively stopped anything to large. It could actually be much smaller but has to apply to all income that comes in. I mean honestly things are so effed now that we likely need a 90+ percent until normalized.