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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 142 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's a great salary even if divided between 10,000 people.

Fuck billionaires, leeches

[–] lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's 100k for those in the back. Really puts this greed into perspective, there is absolutely no reason for any individual to be hoarding this much money. For many people that would literally be life changing

[–] Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 year ago

If you want to stretch it a little further, this would be enough to very comfortably support just shy of 74,000 students in Australia per year.

That's roughly an extra third of what our government offers right now.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This is exactly why you do a progressive tax rate that charges a huge percent (50+) for every penny earned over 20 million.

They can still get these massive bonuses, but get would be better off putting that money into wages that aren’t taxed so much.

[–] overcast5348@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

50% for 20 million sounds insane to me. I'd be clamoring for 75% or more. I'm in Ontario and people making something like 250000 CAD already have a marginal rate above 50% IIRC. Before anyone calls me a lazy commie, my marginal rate is in the mid 40s already, and I'm happy to do my part.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

How do you feel about 37%?

[–] Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh honey, that's so much more conservative than I'd tax. 100% over a million, easy.

They don't deserve huge bonuses so I'm not interested in letting them keep anything that insane. There should be a cap on income based upon the median wage or something IMO.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I’ll meet you in the middle at 75

[–] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

I'd back tax them.

[–] Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The UK tax bands will blow your mind.

Like 40% for anything over 50k. Which I'm fine with btw.

https://www.gov.uk/income-tax-rates

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

None of these people earn their fortunes in a way that is affected by income tax.

They're not taking billions in cold hard cash every year.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It’s probably not bad when you factor in healthcare. Especially the middle class that doesn’t get free healthcare but also pays the same as the super wealthy.

[–] Tathas@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We used to have that here in the US.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you Reagan and Bush

[–] RmDebArc_5@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Anybody else think there should be a money limit? Like at a certain point you get a message: Congratulations, you completed capitalism. Now every additional cent you make is going to be taxed at 100%

[–] Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago

Oh absolutely, if we aren't replacing capitalism we need to install hard limits.