Post #4164657
2026-07-28 10:46 UTC
It is interesting that the richest people often don't want others to know how much they have, and say that it'd be so difficult to set up systems to find that out, but also pay quite a bit of attention to things like The Sunday Time's Rich List to see where they rank.
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@slowe@mastodon.me.uk 2026-07-28 11:52
Note I'm very specifically talking about the meta topic of how we talk about wealth tax and how often people get distracted from actually enacting a wealth tax by being made to debate options. Another thing that acts to avoid enacting a wealth tax is shifting the discussion to optimising _other_ taxes. It seems emminently sensible to suggest you have to find the "right" answer before doing anything and to bring up all the other related issues. All this acts to keep the status quo.