Comment on In January, billionaires amassed more wealth than the poorest third of humanity owns.

Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Enkers@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The billionaires are already in the business of inventing new currencies as a method of wealth extraction. So unless the nee currency is billionaire scalps, it’s not going to do anything.

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  • admin@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Awe fuck. Time to go back to grow our food and learn a trade so we all can trade our skilled labor/services in some sort of online marketplace that doesn’t use a currency.

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You always end up with a currency. But if it’s a finite, redistributed (so, collected and redistributed) it can work. IMO.

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  • jaemo@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hear me out: the currency is to be made from the hide of billionaires.

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• Mee@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What will that achieve here exactly?

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Potentially a reset of the hoarding.

    Better tax them but that doesn’t seems to be on the table any more.

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    • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not really? Why would it?

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    • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      … They’d just trade in their riches for the new currency. Billionaires aren’t holding their wealth in cash

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      • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah but it could be an inflationnary currency for example.

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    • gibmiser@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Who will control it? Will people with money be able to buy it outright?

      Not going to help

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