• shweddy@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      If we do it now everyone gets $125 and if we exclude everyone who has over $1M we get way more than $125

      • Jessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        I don’t care if it’s $3.50, just as long as Elon Musk is made the example he deserves to be. A single room apartment, with a crappy landlord who never fixes anything, and a job that never allows his head to be above water. He can become the exploited worker he’s always dreamed of.

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        21 hours ago

        i think it might be more useful, just maybe, if instead of giving everyone an individually meaningless amount of money, we take his money and use it to buy stuff that we all need. maybe we could set it aside to pay for medical expenses for everyone, or maybe to update schools, or buy homes for everyone who needs one.

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        Sure, but the mechanisms that collected $125 per person could be disassembled and stop leeching on society. The gains would continue!