We need taxes for all - also the super-rich.

“Tax the rich” is an official EU petition. The EU Parliament has to deal with it when successful.

7 EU countries must reach the quorum. And in total 1M Votes are needed. Check yours in the chart and share, cross post etc.!

The petition calls for the introduction of a wealth tax on very large fortunes. Sign the petition here

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    4 months ago

    sounds quiet unusual to be honest

    I think it’s the most common road to be a millionaire.

    Microsoft - Bill Gates Amazon - Jeff Bezos Berkshire Hathaway - Warren Buffet CDProjekt - Adam Kiciński, Marcin Iwiński (They started from absolute nothing, bazar stand with bootleg software) TOYOTA - Akio Toyoda, branched out from family buisness in textile industry

    Literally every single successful business made it’s founder a fortune

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      • Microsoft: monopolist founded with a “small loan”
      • Amazon: monopolist founded with a “small loan”
      • Berkshire Hathaway - founded by a congressman’s son with access to wealth and education
      • CDProjekt, wow an outlier!
      • TOYOTA - generational wealth

      Literally every single successful business made it’s founder a fortune

      LMFAO “the winners won”. Any other tautologies you want to spout? “The losers lost” maybe?

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        Even if you had access to the capital, you’d most likely fail - because running a business is hard

        For every Bill Gates or Bezos there are dozens if not hundreds who sunk the entire initial investment.

        You hate survivors for some reason.

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          Invests money they don’t own at no risk

          Allowed to do so as many times as necessary until success

          Has access to advisors, education, can hire entire teams out of the gate

          “I am just like you”

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      “valuable goods … benefiting everyone” not on the cost of others is what’s lacking here

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        valuable goods … benefiting everyone

        If other people are buying what you produce, in almost every case you produce something valuable, and a person who buys from you benefits.

        There are exceptions - drugs, weapons, slot machines ect.

        But basically everything you see around yourself that was made by man, was produced by a successful business, and bought by somone who needed it.

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          you missed something when citing me

          not on the cost of others

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            not on the cost of others

            It’s not on the cost of others, its a fair exchange. Both sides benefit

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              And the people in the middle? Sure, the people exploited for the production of those goods benefited a lot. The child forced to harvest coffee and chocolate really enjoyed the transaction.

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                  Really? The western companies exploiting them aren’t to blame? The western companies that pay off people to look the other way? The western companies that organise military coups? The western companies that murder opposition? The western companies that send their trash to the country to destroy the market there?