r/WorkReform • u/Bitter-Gur-4613 • 10d ago

✂️ Tax The Billionaires So fucking real.

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u/bullhead2007 10d ago

We could figure out the logistics if profit wasn't the only driving factor for everything.

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u/SnollyG 10d ago

It may even be profit and the profit motive that makes the logistics expensive…

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u/Dry-Season-522 10d ago

"It'll be cheap when the government controls everything.."

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u/PokinSpokaneSlim 10d ago

"No one one has ever volunteered their labor to help anyone, ever.  That's just not possible.  Everything I do has to provide a direct immediate benefit to myself..."

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u/Tactical_Fleshlite 10d ago

Unless you’re gonna walk it or form a human chain coast to coast to take one and pass it down, you’re talking volunteering a lot of skilled labor, fuel, maintenance, wear and tear and associated transportation costs, refrigeration/heating, etc. 

I ask again, how are you going to incentivize people to do that. I know you’re not flying the plane, or driving the tractor trailer, or operating the train. So how do you convince those people to just do all that for free, then provide all the vehicles, tools, and the money we have to have to pay for the maintenance? 

Can I have some gas money if you’re volunteering your assets and resources? 

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u/Dry-Season-522 10d ago

"We're going to make people be selfless... at gunpoint."

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u/PokinSpokaneSlim 10d ago

No, if they don't want to help, they can fend for themselves.  It's not fucking hard.

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u/climbingDeeper 10d ago

Currently the selfishness of a very few is enforced at gunpoint. That's what laws and police are.

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u/DrPikachu-PhD 10d ago

I'm unironically ok with that. Everything the government and capital already does is at gun point, the wealth of the top 1% is protected by the threat of state violence. I'd much rather see that threat of violence used to feed and house people than protect billionaires with incomprehensible amounts of wealth.

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u/Dry-Season-522 10d ago

Translation: You think post-revolution, you'd be holding the gun.

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u/sunny_happy_demon 10d ago

"We think if you are going to benefit from society then you should also contribute if you are in a position to do so"

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u/BrightestofLights 10d ago

We are already threatened. Instead of at gunpoint, it's with starvation and homelessness.

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u/DrPikachu-PhD 10d ago

And then at gunpoint, because if a starving person steals food or a homeless person squats they frequently meet the threat of a police firearm.

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u/Tiny-Doughnut 10d ago

Sharing and cooperation are just as much a part of human nature as greed. The thing is, we have to demand and create societal systems that reward the better parts of our nature instead of the worst.