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• FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Mansions don’t fall from the sky, they are built. To build a mansion you have to spend money. If you don’t spend your money on a mansion, you can use it for something else, like school uniforms.

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  • clayj9@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Amazing this is too hard a concept for some to reach by themselves.

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  • Aux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, but the mansion is already there and the money went to the builders. So, what’s your plan exactly? Take the money from the builders?

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    • FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      When do you think the last mansion was built?

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      • Aux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        How’s that relevant to my question? It’s not. But I’ll give you the answer, as it seems you’re struggling hard - you can split ones wealth. The end.

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• charlytune@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We need more wealth taxes, increased public spending, and wage increases for the public sector and the lowest paid jobs. And we really need to be putting serious effort into introducing some kind of universal income. That’s how you share wealth.

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  • Aux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You can’t tax wealth.

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    • charlytune@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Wut?

      I mean I can’t, you’re right, but the government and HMRC can. If the government actually wanted to.

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      • Aux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Taxing wealth doesn’t work and never did. We have a few thousand years of experience with that.

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