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It's Shopify's Tobi Lutke.

A reminder that he's behind Build Canada and Build Toronto, and that Build Toronto's Eric Lombardi is running for the Ontario Librral Party leadership as we speak.

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[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

I actually find his idea of weighed voting based on tax paid a good idea. But then percentage wise based on both income and wealth. So if you pay 2% tax you get 2 votes, if you pay 50% you get 50 votes.

Awwww too bad billionaires don't / barely pay taxes. No votes for those arrogant rich assholes. Now we can vote to arrest billionaires who don't pay taxes, imprison them for tax evasion and Epstein files and take away their wealth which can be used to improve quality of life of the general public.

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 1 points 3 hours ago

Nah there's no way that ends up working out to the betterment of the people. Rich people are the ones in power and they will engineer it so they stay in power and get even more. They would rather change tax policy so that they pay all of it. That would allow them to consolidate power to they point that they can exploit people even more and come out even richer. Even if they make less money, being able to directly pay for power would be a worthy trade off. It's better that voting reflects the value that all people are inherently equal.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

But they already do that. Its called lobbying.