If all the money ends up in hands of billionaires and their corporations and there will be no money in hands of regular plebs…
Who do you think will have to pay the taxes?
Also, the people would figure out a different way of trading or currency. And with that one getting taxed, all the billionaire’s money become worthless.
The “plebs” will develop a new currency of their own. And by this I basically mean anything from bottle caps to IOU notes etc. Monopoly money, whatever. Arguably they could use something actually valuable too but using an IOU-type thing kinda secures it against theft. Point is that it starts with small communities with some degree of trust of course. Alternatively, trade work for food and goods - but we’re primed to use money so I think we’re likely to just create a new currency since we already know it’s simpler to just trade 5 bottle caps for a carrot than it is to wash dishes for… oh i dunno, 3 carrots or whatever.
This kinda is what we should be getting to do anyway at this point. The 1% should be regarded as a force of nature. You can’t win against them anymore you can win against a volcano. Best you can do is work around them (instead of trying to beat them at their own game which they are constantly rigging in their favor anyway).
Money itself only has as much value as we give it.
That’s crypto. Non governmental currency.
No, what i propose is pretty much the opposite of crypto. You need physical exchange, not just abstract numbers.
that’s the wet dream, fictional version of crypto.
that’s the idea that made me excited about crypto 15 years ago. (stupid young 31 old me 👶 )
Oh yeah, it’s stupid. But so is the idea of non-governmental currency having any sort of real or consistent value. Every exchange type that we come up with is subject to the same problems as crypto. Crypto just got there faster