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The only acceptable number, but not only in Europe, everywhere, is β0β.
And if you already donβt know why: a billionaire has way too much money and power, and can influence governments in their favor, creating unsurmountable inequality and subverting the systemβs rules. Billionaires are the cause why capitalism is failing (and since no one can stop them now, it will completely fail, and will drag the environment, and human survival, with it).
Yes, but capitalism isn't failing: billionaires ARE capitalism
When I say capitalism is failing is because for it to work, it need rules (offer/demand, competition without monopolies, etc), that these billionaires have eliminated or subverted. They changed the game rules in their favor, and are now so powerful itβs impossible to stop them (non violently, I mean). I honestly think we just entered a dark era of humanity, one in which its existence is in question. And yes, Iβm a pessimist, but I try to be optimistic with all my might, but everything I see or read prevents me from being optimistic.
When I say capitalism is failing is because for it to work, it need rules
Because it is unstable. It is much easier to disrupt the system than to balance it in a stable-like state against it's nature. Capitalism has gotten out of hand and will collapse sooner or later. And no: I am not a pessimist
We need an EU wide 100% wealth tay for any wealth over say 15millionβ¬. I am willing to negotiate about the second number.
Tay them all!
So anyone who gets a certain amount of money might as well close all the companies they own?
Or give them to the employees or something. Probably 15M is a too low threshold to enforce that but it would work. It would basically distribute the wealth amongst the people who produce it
Maybe not 15 million, but let's say at 100 million you get a dog park named after you with a statue that says you won at capitalism
What do you mean by wealth?
I think the better comparison would be the number of billionaires per capita. Say, per million people. Not that this isnβt a good infographic - keep the overall count. But include the per capita as a frequency-of-occurrence stat.
I didnt knew this Graph but damn..
And this is why you could tax them at 80 or even 90% and they would still have more money than 90% of the rest of the population of earth.
Trickle down economics works like a piΓ±ata. Once you break it open with blunt force, the stuff you want starts to trickle down!
blood?
blood.
That's a lot of food to eat. Better get started.
It would make more sense to use per capita numbers.
Thatβs a lot of guillotines
Even if we had to use a private submarine for each one it would still be worth it
Be environmentally minded please and follow the three Rβs. In this case we simply reuse the same guilotine.
These are eatable numbers
Am I the only one who finds the color scheme unintuitive? (a comment more suitable for DataIsBeautiful, probably)
It's a barrier free color scheme. I like it tbh
Sorry, what is "barrier free"?
No barriers for handicapped people. In this case it means that people who can't tell e.g. red from green can still see the differences in this scheme.
It's a false friend/too literal translation from the German term "barrierefrei". The more common word in English would be "accessible".
Itβs important to remember that while all billionaires are bastards, some are just evil because they take value they neither earned nor need, meanwhile others got rich off being the family whose spat between cousins was WWI and are actively working to undermine left wing and pro equality movements literally today including conspiring to push bigotry towards lgbt people to distract from the class war
Is this based on nationality (defined as: has that nations passport) or billionaires actually living in that country? Because probably many billionaires don't live in their home country or pay taxes there
didn't know we had so many billionaires!
How the fuck is there so many and can we eat some?
can we eat some
You can try to eat just some, but you'll likely find that once they start to pop, you just can't stop.
Portugal's only billionaire might be Abramovich, who gained PT nationality through a very dubious program
The one billionair in Estonia:
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It's John Travolta in pulp fiction looking around not finding anyone
Surprising that monaco "only" has 3 billionaires.
Oh if the Kingdom of Portugal could see how far itβs fallen!
