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Another L for bigotry (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 day ago by Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Just the normalizaton of this practice is good ngl.

If a billionaire donates 2.5% of his money out of their goodwill they get bunch of supporters and tax breaks and people forget allegation on how they raped someone and so on.

Meanwhile even kings, who could do whatever the fuck at the time, were expected donate at least 2.5% in 600s.

More progressive taxing can not only be justified in hindsight of modern capitalism, but can become commonplace and expected too.

Also unrelated but not a single king quit being royalty because they had to donate 2.5% of their ownings so that "taxing the billionaires would unmotivate people to start business" was absolute bs for a good 1400 years lmao.