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  • Phoenixz@lemmy.catoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•money should have a expiration date too stop hoarders
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    4 days ago

    Better solution: world wide wealth caps. WWWC, if you will

    Just your normal tax brackets but with one extra one that says that nobody can be worth more than, say, 10 million dollars. Anything over that goes straight not taxes until you’re below again.

    For companies, make it a billion dollars

    This way, nobody can become extraordinary rich and or powerful

    Nobody can pressure others or influence large groups with money because nobody can

    Companies will require a huge amount of small shareholders so no one single shareholder can influence a single company

    Governments will get a huge influx of money which they can use for a huge social network with free healthcare, free education, UBI (Universal Basic Income) and so on.

    With that, no more poverty. Everyone can have a standard minimum living where they have a nice little home, all the food and healthcare and education they’d need, and if someone wants a little more, they can work a little more, but nobody can get over 10 mil.

    It would eradicate poverty, and much of -or most- crime, as money is the incentive of much of the crime in the world

    Governments can make world wide investment foundations that can fund independent press agencies with the single requirements that they always try to be as unbiased and honest as possible

    Companies can’t have a networth over a billion dollars, so instead of 1-3 giant companies, we’ll have thousands, of not millions of smaller ones.

    Companies will no longer have incentives to cheat and or fuck over customers or the environment because why would you of you reached the limit and you can’t earn more anyway? Focus can go to quality and safety again

    I see a huge amount of pro’s here with … Well, I don’t even see cons

    I know this requires that we implement this world wide, but that would be the only complication. The rules themselves are simple and basic. I know, there are a lot of details that willl emerge that need to be handled but anything is better than the oligarch shit we have now and this to me sounds like a Utopian society, really, or as close as we can get to them

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.catoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for?
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    4 days ago

    Nope

    Do you know how to run a military? Do you know what environmental regulations should be needed for chemical plants?

    I can go on for a while but you get the point

    1. I’d say I want a democracy where at the least it’s a requirement that those who are temporarily in charge, actually studied the subject matter they’re in charge of. I’ve seen too many ministers be in charge of areas they have no fucking clue about.

    You’re in charge of healthcare? Then at the very least you must be a doctor

    You’re the minister of justice? At least be a lawyer, or better yet, a judge.

    1. get rid of political parties, require each minister to be independent. Yes, we need to do more voting and yes, we need to read up on each minister but then lets make voting a holiday so that people can take their time with it. Require that ministers actually implement the things they claimed they would
  • Phoenixz@lemmy.catocats@lemmy.world•A Cat Walked On Stage and Stole Romeo and Juliet 🐱🎭
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    5 days ago

    I once was attending a really weird classical concert

    It was in a tiny Mexican town in the middle of nowhere, the majority of the town having less than 10.000 inhabitants

    The main church in the main square was the setting for a night performance of some famous classical orchestra from New York.

    Mind you, this is already weird because the place is really in theiddle of nowhere, it’s only farmers and poor people there. Don’t get me wrong, it’s great that this orchestra was willing to perform there, and the people deserved something nice, but very unexpected.

    So they setup in the church, all cramped because there isn’t that much space, people sit down, the orchestra director gives a little speech in English that gets translated, and then they are about to start. The director taps his stick a few times, the first tune comes out and POOOFFF. electricity gone. Pure darkness. Comedic timing could not have been better.

    This was before mobile phones (this was around 2005, IIRC) so nobody had a flash light. At first it was everyone giggling a little bit, and someone quickly ran outside to fetch a flash light so that the director could be visible and talk a little more about who they were etc until power would come back.

    10 minutes in, the power does come back, so we can start playing, yay, everybody happy! So the orchestra starts playing, it’s beautiful, and then I see this poor sweet large street dog wandering in, looking for scraps to eat. The dog goes straight for the orchestra playing and starts mingling with the musicians, walking under their legs, sniffing their bare legs (it was hot, most were in shorts) pushing them aside while they are playing, slapping their legs with his tail.

    The show must go on so nobody does anything to stop the dog (there was no space for anyone to walk around there) but since none of the musicians expect a wet nose on their legs, you constantly hear some musician suddenly screeching their instrument and looking at wtf is that, then continuing to play and the dog goes on to the next musician who then REALLY toots their horn, literally, because out of the blue, the dog jumps with its two paws on their lap. Soon you hear laughter from the audience and orchestra alike, and everyone just went with it, because it was awesome and funny.

    Hands down the best classical concert I’ve ever been to, it was so beautiful and so much fun!