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When you said "under fire" I thought you meant literally, as in there is a squad of soldiers currently training their machine guns on the lad's home.
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Has he considered that voting is free, but bullets are cheap? If he were smart, he'd be wary of taking the ballot box out of the equation.
This is Canada, nobody is going to shoot him. Getting torn apart by a mob is not out of the equation though.
Slathered in maple syrup, rolled in worms and fed to a bloodthirsty swarm of Canada geese.
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.
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.
But they already do that. Its called lobbying.
Talk like this is almost like they are BEGGING for the guillotines to start rolling out.
They've been begging for decades
Wealthy arrogance is suicidal.
My brother was one of the first 10 or so hires of Shopify so seeing the little company grow into the massive company it is now in the 2010s made me like this guy a lot. He seemed to treat the team with respect and recognized/rewarded them for their work.
Then he totally ended up being yet another shitty billionaire (MAGA supporter iirc).
Thankfully, my brother quit before Toby's dickishness was made obvious, and so he remains the nicest, down-to-earth guy that I know.
Hang em
He’s right though. The oligarchs having to own news and social media to get the election outcomes they want, and then also having to lobby those politicians to enact the right policies is incredibly inefficient. It would be simpler if the politicians were unelected and simply payrolled employees of the owner class.
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I just want world wide wealth caps. 10 million is the max that any person canboen or control. Any additional income after that goes 100% straight to taxes.
This simple rule has wide spread implications from ending poverty to likely ending wars, removing power from narcissist politicians, and souch more
Yes. but corruption always exists. Caps just push that wealth underground. There are no simple answers like that.
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It used to be that only property owners could vote. The laws all favoured the property owners.
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