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If all the money ends up in hands of billionaires and their corporations and there will be no money in hands of regular plebs...
Who do you think will have to pay the taxes? Also, the people would figure out a different way of trading or currency. And with that one getting taxed, all the billionaire's money become worthless.

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[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It's not in the billionaire's interest for us plebs to have no money at all. A lot of their interests are funded by us. Paying for power, food, iPhones, clothes, cars, holidays etc. So if they have it all and we have none, the economy will collapse, people will barter with vape juice and booze, and the billionaires will realize they cannot eat money.

When the economy collapses the question of who will pay taxes is a secondary problem. The primary one will be to rebuild the state and a new currency and then they'll look at the tax code.

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[–] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 1 points 1 day ago

Money is an abstraction for real things thst have either been stolen already or cannot be.

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