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  • Excessive Wealth Disorder

    Hey Bob A. I found this website interesting, but I haven't looked at it closely yet.
    But appears to support my tax the rich agenda. Wondering what you think.

    https://excessivewealth.org/


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    Originally posted by Bob Gillanders View Post
    Hey Bob A. I found this website interesting, but I haven't looked at it closely yet.
    But appears to support my tax the rich agenda. Wondering what you think.

    https://excessivewealth.org/
    It says: The solution lies in policies that tax the excessively wealthy so that we can reinvest in critical public services like healthcare, education, and climate change mitigation.

    No! Two wrongs don't make a right. The solution lies in getting rid of both Capitalism and Marxism....

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    • #3
      Hi Dilip:

      Ouch!

      Bob A

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Bob Gillanders View Post
        Hey Bob A. I found this website interesting, but I haven't looked at it closely yet.
        But appears to support my tax the rich agenda. Wondering what you think.

        https://excessivewealth.org/
        LOOL!!!!!!!!

        There's no such thing as ... excessive wealth, ha!

        Just love how you flaming Libs and your Socialist counterparts invent phrases. And then, spin those phrases through all your media platforms! Adam Schiff is your God, ha! Your hero, your mentor, your love!!!

        Excessive Wealth ... LOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

        Made my day!

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Neil Frarey View Post

          LOOL!!!!!!!!

          There's no such thing as ... excessive wealth, ha!

          Just love how you flaming Libs and your Socialist counterparts invent phrases. And then, spin those phrases through all your media platforms! Adam Schiff is your God, ha! Your hero, your mentor, your love!!!

          Excessive Wealth ... LOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

          Made my day!
          Hi Neil,
          While I agree with you that so called 'excessive' wealth made fairly per se is not a problem, capitalism leads to unfair concentration of wealth in the hands of very few, which is the problem...

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Bob Armstrong View Post
            Hi Dilip:

            Ouch!

            Bob A
            Sorry, Bob A... stop loving Marxism, and there will be much fewer Ouches in your life...

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Dilip Panjwani View Post

              Hi Neil,
              While I agree with you that so called 'excessive' wealth made fairly per se is not a problem, capitalism leads to unfair concentration of wealth in the hands of very few, which is the problem...
              Hi Dilip, how you?

              The term 'Concentration' is just as meaningless to me as the term 'Excessive', when it is being forced upon an Individual's growth and potential.


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              • #8
                Concentration of Wealth translates into concentration of power in today's capitalist society.........that is just one of the problems with "Excessive/Concentrated" Wealth.

                Bob A

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Neil Frarey View Post

                  Hi Dilip, how you?

                  The term 'Concentration' is just as meaningless to me as the term 'Excessive', when it is being forced upon an Individual's growth and potential.

                  You are right, Neil. Nobody should subdue anybody's growth potential. However, what is fair is that one should be able to earn based on one's enterprise, smartness and hard work, and not based upon how much capital one has already accumulated... and capital should not translate into power over others, as Bob A. has pointed out...
                  Last edited by Dilip Panjwani; Sunday, 5th March, 2023, 09:44 PM.

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                  • #10
                    So even though those individuals who grew their own wealth from modest humble beginnings means that others can't do the same?

                    Jeff Bezos wasn't born into money nor was Steve Jobs. What did both of them (and many others) have in common ... enterprise, smartness and hard work.

                    Shouldn't we try to honor these good people? Fine examples of ... yes you too can do the same?

                    If it were up to me, I wouldn't tax Jeff Bezos a single dollar.

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                    • #11
                      Lauding some entrepreneur's competence and drive is a good thing. It is encouragement to others to try hard.

                      It is a totally different thing for society to reward them abysmally disproportionately, and treat them as some non-human god.

                      Bob A (T-S/P)

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Bob Armstrong View Post
                        Lauding some entrepreneur's competence and drive is a good thing. It is encouragement to others to try hard.

                        It is a totally different thing for society to reward them abysmally disproportionately, and treat them as some non-human god.

                        Bob A (T-S/P)
                        Yes! Very much so, they should be rewarded disproportionately!

                        Absolutely!

                        Just think of the amount of wealth Jeff Bezos has generated ... for others!!! Go right down the line to something as simple as vehicle maintenance. And I just love the amount of wealth he generated for that yacht building company in the Netherlands!! It's insane the amount of wealth he has generated. Steve Jobs, no less so! And the same for Elon Musk!

                        Most certainly, reward them disproportionately!

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                        • #13
                          Sell a small group of people some good or service that benefits the buyers: profit somewhat.

                          Sell a large group of people some good or service that benefits the buyers: profit greatly.

                          Sell an enormous group of people some good or service that benefits the buyers: profit tremendously.

                          Why shouldn't the people who provide the greatest services to the largest number of people become the richest people?

                          Millions of people shop at Walmart. Millions use Microsoft products. Roughly 2M Teslas have been purchased. Amazon has delivered to millions.

                          The only objectionable part is where government steps in, tells the mom and pop shop (for example) they must close for Covid while Walmart stays open
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                          "Tom is a well known racist, and like most of them he won't admit it, possibly even to himself." - Ed Seedhouse, October 4, 2020.

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                          • #14
                            Capitalism and a myriad of stupid government laws stifle competition. Libertarianism with its easy access to capital for all entrepreneurs and absent government interference enables more to compete and share in the wealth, rather than wealth getting tremendously concentrated in the hands of a few...

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                            • #15
                              [QUOTE=Neil Frarey;n225181]

                              LOOL!!!!!!!!

                              There's no such thing as ... excessive wealth, ha!
                              ...../QUOTE]


                              Says someone who is:
                              - far from starving to death
                              - not dying from a disease for which he cannot get medical care because he doesn't have insurance
                              - not homeless-due-solely-to-not-being-able-to-afford-an-indoor-living-space (acknowledging that some homeless people prefer to be homeless)


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