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You Can’t Have Both Democracy and Billionaires
(www.currentaffairs.org)
You can’t have communism and billionaires either.
Nor a functioning climate.
We should bring back volcano sacrifices and get rid of one of those things.
You don't know for sure that volcano sacrifices don't work! I for one am willing to give it a try.
You can't have billionaires and any sort of just system, period.
A single billionaire is a symptom of a system destined to fail.
Let them reach a net worth of 999 million, anything if above they can choose to transfer to whoever they want to, as long as it's a person who has wealth cap left.
Don't have anyone left you want to transfer to? Above a billion is 100% tax or you can donate to a registered charity. With all the charity loopholes closed.
So the superyacht industry goes away. Big fucking whoop. That's a tumor that needs excising.
I think this is a great article but I had to ragequit a third of the way through reading because McGinn’s (the author the article was critiquing) arguments were genuinely ragebait lmao.
this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2026
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