Gregory's Server@northernlights @Radical_EgoCom It would be sad if "adjust your oxygen mask before helping others" would increase inequality and reduce solidarity, but I suppose it makes sense it would.
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@northernlights @Radical_EgoCom Mathematical impossibility, depending on how you define "middle class." Piketty defines the working class as the lowest 50%, middle class as between the 50th and 90th percentiles. But possible to eliminate the impoverished (less than 60% of median income) and the current rich (top 1%), as opposed to the merely well-to-do (top 10% but not in the top 1%). @northernlights @Radical_EgoCom Putting the max wealth at the Value of a Statistical Human Life would do that. Estimates for that value range from $7 mil to $10 mil, $11 mil in net worth needed to be in the top 1%. A wealth tax in that range would be about enough to pay for a UBI at 60% of the median income. @northernlights @Radical_EgoCom Been a while since I've done the math, and getting the tax structure right is non-trivial. Would suck if we got rid of all the multi-millionaires but kept the billionaires. If I remember right, the UBI budget wasn't *quite* enough to lift all Americans out of relative poverty all by itself, but it came damn close. |
@DrDanMarshall @Radical_EgoCom
Yes.
There must be a balance between securing your own survival and the grotesque levels of inequality we see today.
I have no issues with everybody being middle class.