So, what’s wrong with that? You have a wealth tax on all wealth over $100 million. If you have wealth anywhere over say, $50 million, you hire an accountant to assess your business’s value. Everyone with that level of wealth already hires accountants. It’s a trivial additional burden. If your wealth is no where near the tax threshold, you don’t need to bother hiring an accountant to get a precise figure.

And I’m going to say, it’s a great means to go after the assholes if they try to claim their assets are worth something different. I think we have a recent case of 34 felonies about that…

The famous athenian system where slaves were tortured for testimony because their testimony wasn’t admitted without torture because they would ‘otherwise lie?’

The famous athenian system where the military quite literally marched 10 miles in one direction, then 10 miles in the other direction the next day because control of the army was transferred from day to day between different generals?

The famous athenian system where a philosopher was sentenced to death because he was teaching the youth to think differently?*

Sounds like democracy fails over and over again every time it’s tried. For every example you could make of communism always failing, somehow, you can make the same of examples with democracy or capitalism. Make better arguments, for the love of water.

Businesses. I’ve seen ‘the back end’ of an upper middle class family with a business, and the ways the mother (the tax genius of the scheme) moved money around and labeled various things as expenses for businesses was wild. None of it was illegal, it just was clearly not the intended purpose of the tax laws. One example I clearly remember was sticking five cattle on each of the properties they purchased, and all taxes just disappeared (went from thousands of dollars to just… dollars) due to agricultural exemptions. All of the cattle and their care suddenly became expenses, because the labor they hired to care for them was somehow completely deductible or expensable or however the law looked at it, which allowed them to shuffle money from another business to make it look negative…

and so on and so forth. I think they had more than four businesses that were legally separate (and incorporated, with the board being family members [and those family members are part of a trust that let even more shenanigans happen]) but supported the way money was shuffled. This was for a family that, at most, made ~ $500,000. Super high, above that 1% mark, but not even close to the insanity that the truly wealthy can pull off. Anything business related opens up an exponential number of ways to move money, even while using it, compared to the options a casual income-only tax-payer has.

As much as we can point at ‘Trump, dumb’ and tell ourselves that the rich are stupid but lucky, the majority are not at his level. They hire (multiple) people making six figures to manage their money because that investment pays off.

I think the ‘unrealized assets’ should be taxed as ‘realized’ if they are used as collateral. Yes, it would affect the reverse mortgages and such, or home equity loans, but fuck it, I’d take those relatively small pains against the massive societal gains.

I mean, terraria, avorion, elden ring, vampire survivors, castle crashers, spiderheck, binding of isaac, few nights more, crying suns (if you’re a masochist), ultimate chicken horse, and of course, a party game like keep talking and no one explodes.

Probably? There’s a lot of information about them if you read a textbook. Their place in the steroid pathways is always a good place to start.

Had the exact same thought. My visit to san fran was hilarious, because looking across the bay, you could see the sunshine on the north side, while the south was blanketed in light mist and fog. Our brief visit to the north side to see the muir woods was the exact opposite: sitting in sunshine while looking at a dreary, shrouded place across the water.

Cold shower might be more appropriate, eh?

And, notably, it doesn’t seem to lower crime rates.

Don’t worry, the food chain is well preserved.

If they would have been, or are today, then sure. If they aren’t, then yeah, let’s explore other ways to kill off nazis than punching them publicly on a video they are recording.

Ultimately, it’s all a wash. The nazis we are punching would say their targets broke the social contract first. Tolerance should be an aspect of your morality, not the whole thing (and hopefully, that being said, your morality says punching nazis is okay).

I would quite honestly prefer every place to have their own web site instead of the ginormous amount of places that have facebook pages.

Yellowstone caldera… thing

Not a thing, apparently. All the blowing about yellowstone blowing is done by people with a single line or two from the scientists’ work, and never by the scientists themselves.

If we actually had more unions and did some organizing

That’s a LOT of action packed into a single phrase. Maybe we’ll get there, but organizing the ability to carry out every function in a bypass of current currency/ownership is as great, if not greater, a task than a war to overthrow the government… because practically, you would be overthrowing the government.

Uh, I think you meant to reply to pixel man, but for me it’s showing from the little minimize button on the left, to under the ‘english’ label that’s just to the right of the permalink colored star button. That’s bigger than the original, which went from the same location on the left, to near the end of the lemmy.world in your name.

Point of order though: is one sexy time counted as one fuck, or is all the sex, as long as it’s the same partner, counted as one fuck?

I think we can’t really count the 40 million as his kills, unless we count all the descendants of the other mongols who raped their way across the continent, and I think that would tip the scales towards fuck winning.

$200 a month? Man, he got off easy in this round of ‘fuck the plebes’ this year.

Minimum? No, I think fines should bankrupt the executives and board members, leaving them homeless at a minimum. If they don’t want to have being homeless as a bad thing, maybe they should start donating to political candidates who would change society for the better and make homelessness either a thing of the past or a very well tended to position.