Having wealth over 1000 times the median family income.
I’d prefer it was simply prevented via policy rather than punished if breached.
I would prefer a mixed system. All wealth over 1000x the median household income taxed at 100%. So no one should have a fortune larger than that, a number that would be approximately $80 million today. But if you secretly gather a fortune much larger than that? If you somehow secretly amass a fortune 10,000x the median household income? At that point I would apply severe criminal penalties, like a mandatory minimum 20 year sentence. I don’t want to throw the book at someone just because they accidentally let their fortune grow a bit beyond the limit. But if you’re a whole order of magnitude above it? Then that’s when severe criminal penalties should apply. At some point your wealth becomes so large that you personally become a threat to national security. Amassing a fortune in the billions should be treated like a private citizen trying to build their own nuclear bomb. No one should have that much power, and we should treat both the same.
Scale that back to 100x tops
I like the 1000x threshold because that is approximately the maximum possible fortune one can amass in one’s lifetime off of ordinary salary work and extreme frugality.
1000x the median income would be about $80 million. Consider the highest-earning non-executive salaried employees - people who spend years in school in very challenging fields. People like neurosurgeons. Imagine if there was a couple composed of two neurosurgeons, and they earn very good salaries. They’re also so frugal that they spend basically nothing. You have a pair of neurosurgeons literally sleeping on the sidewalk out front of the hospital. They live like that, and they invest and save every penny they can. The highest salaried incomes combined with pathological frugality.
Even if they did all of that. Even if two highly educated workers lived off nothing and saved everything, even then those people would still struggle to earn, over their whole life, a fortune that exceeded 1000x the median household income.
Such a system allows for a capitalism that actually does live up to the marketing. You’re allowed to earn a fortune as large as your own labor and skills will allow. However, the only way to obtain a fortune larger than this is to get into the business of labor arbitrage - hiring other people and harnessing the surplus of their labor. I want people to be able to earn as much money from the sweat of their own brow as they can. But I don’t want people to be able to hoard strategically dangerous fortunes by exploiting the labor of others. And 1000x the median household income is a nice even number that’s easy to explain to people and that achieves this goal.
Private financing of political campaigns, lobbying, billionaire tax evasion, corporate personhood, corporate tax evasion, wealth over 100 million, private equity in housing or healthcare, employment dependent health insurance, misinformation presented as news, not enforcing laws on the wealthy, corporate subsidies, big farm subsidies(small community farms only), gerrymandering, for profit prisons and felons running for office.
Chewing tobacco
Religion
All you have to do is make it illegal to expose or proselytize religion to anyone under 22, and religion would likely die out within 2-3 generations.
When you have been raised as a rationalist and know, at a fundamental level, the bullshit detection system called the Scientific Method, you need to have some pretty powerful mental illness in play to willingly grasp at religion.
Lying as a politician.
capitalist relations
Kittenhood. The minimum sentence: lifetime of cuddling, free food and play.
Sport Hunting and corporate land owning
Supporting the state of “israel” with financial or other material means.
earning more than 360,000 usd per year.
And how will Californians and New Yorkers be able to afford a new home next year?
Leaving a shopping cart in a parking space instead of bringing it back to the cart shelter.
Cart narcs out ✊
Circumcising a child.
Attempting to mislead a person for financial gain.
That’s already illegal? It used to be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obtaining_pecuniary_advantage_by_deception and is now just fraud.
I believe, though I could be wrong, that for a person to be penalized for fraud, someone has to have suffer damages.
I think it should be illegal to simply mislead for financial gain. Think ads that intentionally exaggerate thier products, influencers who will claim to love some product and use it all the time, when they have never even tried it. And media that puts such a heavy spin on things that in court they claim that no reasonable person would have believed what they are saying as a defense.
Yeah they should make fraud illegal
Fraud, I believe, has a narrower definition than most of us think.
Production of cigarettes and tobacco.
As ex smoker who tried to quit so many times during almost two decades - I know how tough this drug can be and that it’s wide acceptance as social norm makes it so much worse.
Being cruel to other people by hiding behind some power imbalance.
I don’t want to live in a society where the consequence for this behavior is a meaningless fine.
Is this not murder? There’s no way he didn’t contribute to her death even if she was already terminally ill. Stabbing a terminally ill person is murder, putting a newborn baby on the street under the guise of “it’s in my property and it’s not my kid” is murder, why isn’t this? At least criminal negligence no?
Also, is Nanimo doing okay? Like, just in general, but is the housing situation as bad as Vancouver?
Say no to AI slop
The Copyright Crusaders©®™ are on the scene! They fight for the mouse
shush synthophobe
Tell you what, you provide me a non-AI painting remaking of the “O brother what art thou” film post
with the characters replaces with Luigi Mangionne and the word brother changed to Luigi.
And I will put it in my post.Have you never seen a meme? You don’t have to bust out the oil paints, in the amount of time you’ve already spent defending this slop you could have clumsily pasted his cutout head onto all six positions. The rough quality can be part of the humor.
I bet your chatbot can explain this and other aspects of human behavior.
result https://lemmy.ml/post/34374123/20369162 and I asked the computer
about normal human behaviour
https://chatgpt.com/share/6898fd57-7618-8005-9724-ad3d650441fc
Just don’t dump AI spam everywhere 🤷♂️
How about you keep your sentiments to yourself
Learn to draw.
Use MS paint.
This took about 100 times longer
Beep boop beep boop
yeah, looks like I"m going to have to lie to everyone about using AI int he future because you people are becoming insufferable
I just want to make it clear that I’m not going to feel bad about it, lying to your face about it and I’m going to have a lot of fun doing it.
Good job smartypantsYou’re going to have a lot of fun generating pictures with AI and then telling people you didn’t?
That’s sad and weird dude, please go outside, you have been online too long and forgotten that there are real things out there.
yes,no,don’t care, fuck grass
