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[–] Carvex@lemmy.world 161 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It shouldn't be more dangerous to be a 9th grader than a CEO.

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 75 points 6 days ago (2 children)

So, what I'm hearing is, we should kill 2 CEOs for every school child.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 63 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Even at 1:1 we’d be out of billionaires in a couple months.

[–] khornechips@sh.itjust.works 28 points 6 days ago

CEOs hate this one simple trick for preventing school shootings!

[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

First off, there's an estate tax. Second, it's rare for only one person to inherit everything. Third, the children and next of kin are often not even remotely as bad as the dragons that hoard wealth.

Statistically speaking, 70 percent of inheritances are lost by the second generation. It's then 90% by the third.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

those dragons that hoard wealth are almost always the children and next of kin in the first place.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago

Just for pedentasim, most wealth held by the extremely rich is in the form of assets that aren't covered by the estate taxes. This is often by design.