return2ozma@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 2 months agoSan Francisco Democrats break with their party over the billionaire tax—and reveal how deeply Prop 40 has split the leftfortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square18linkfedilinkarrow-up187arrow-down12
arrow-up185arrow-down1external-linkSan Francisco Democrats break with their party over the billionaire tax—and reveal how deeply Prop 40 has split the leftfortune.comreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square18linkfedilink
minus-squareEquinox1289@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up16·2 months agoWhat if you don’t want to tax them, but seize their assets to convert all their businesses into worker coöps?
minus-squaretacosanonymous@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·2 months agoThat’s just a really big tax, though.
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·2 months agoIt’s only a tax if the government siezes it. If you and I go do it, it’s called “theft.”
minus-squarezbyte64@awful.systemslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoThe left is rooted in mass politics, not individual heroics.
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoIf all of us do it they call it “looting.”
minus-squarephutatorius@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoAnd if we care what they call it, we’ll never do anything.
minus-squarephutatorius@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoThat’d be even better. But better incremental progress than none at all. And revolutions have a high failure rate.
What if you don’t want to tax them, but seize their assets to convert all their businesses into worker coöps?
That’s just a really big tax, though.
It’s only a tax if the government siezes it.
If you and I go do it, it’s called “theft.”
The left is rooted in mass politics, not individual heroics.
If all of us do it they call it “looting.”
And if we care what they call it, we’ll never do anything.
That’d be even better. But better incremental progress than none at all. And revolutions have a high failure rate.