• EchoCT@lemmy.ml
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    9 hours ago

    It’s why the tech millionaire financing this isn’t a tech billionaire.

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      9 hours ago

      I get that he’s financing it, but that’s not sustainable if you want to implement something similar around the country.

      I love the idea, and the tiny house village looks amazing! But if it relies on a millionaire to voluntarily subsidize the project, I can’t see it lasting too long.

      Now, that brings us to a wonderful new option: tax the rich more than we do.

      The top 5 billionaires could fund 1000s of these tiny home villages with just a fraction of a percent increase on their hoarded wealth.

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        I love the idea, and the tiny house village looks amazing! But if it relies on a millionaire to voluntarily subsidize the project, I can’t see it lasting too lang.

        Which is why this needs to be a government task, and the rich shouldn’t be begged for voluntary charity, they should be taxed.

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          like a normal social democracy would do.

          Any examples?

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        8 hours ago

        Public services don’t need to be profitable to be sustainable. You just need to tax base to be okay with it.

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          7 hours ago

          Yeah, I don’t want them to be profitable, but sustainable.

          Even if taxpayers are paying for it, you can’t rely on the (struggling) general population to lift people out of homelessness. Let the rich carry that burden. They are the ones who’ve hoarded money that should have gone to everyone else.

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            2 hours ago

            hoarded money that should have gone to everyone else

            That’s not how money works?

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              Yes, because hoarding billions means it was stolen from someone else. Either through low wages, low taxes, loopholes, or unethical business practices.

              Nobody should ever be able to accumulate billions of dollars. We have people who will be trillionaires in our lifetime. Unjustifiable.

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                means it was stolen from someone else

                No it isn’t? Usually it just means owning stock in a company, that others want to buy. That stock isn’t “stolen”, neither is the value that others assign to it.