• Tiger666@lemmy.ca
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    9 days ago

    The only way that capitalism could ever work would be to remove any generational wealth and make it only about personal achievement. When you die it all goes back to the state(assets and money).

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      9 days ago

      I’ve always toyed with the idea of a wealth cap. 1 billion dollars is the max amount of money any one person or entity can make. Anything after that is either reinvested, split amoung the workers (not the board of directors) or payed a taxes to the government.

      One thing is for sure. We don’t need billionaires.

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      9 days ago

      Even then, rich parents can pay for better education and tend to have better connections. Doing it that way would mostly just fuel nepotism in companies and encourage people to find loopholes to pass on most of their wealth before they die.

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        3 days ago

        Sure at first, but then it(connections/nepotism) would get diluted and ineffective over time due to the power shift in not retaining the wealth. People aren’t your friends when you are that wealthy.

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        3 days ago

        Is it a real meritocracy like they say? Then prove it, take away all forms of generational wealth. You can only make it on your own merits. This would be fair capitalism. This will never happen because capitalism is a facade, a lie if you will. It is a system designed to keep most of us down through the use of generational wealth. Sure there are exceptions and we celebrate them like sycophants, but they are not the rule.

        The only thing crazy is the fact that you support such a system through your inaction or inability to educate yourself on the subject matter.

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          2 days ago

          Says they guy who hasn’t studied any history. To say meritocracy doesn’t exist is asinine. Families rise and fall, it’s this self indulgence of otherizing people that continues the cycle of nepotism.

          Keep looking at others and not yourself.