@uu When the billionaires return to the earth they destroyed.

@terryenglish @uu

It's not the billionaire's fault that lots of poor people buy their stuff though.

@nerdman Poor people often times don't even have a choice in what they buy as they will likely pick the cheapest option not that has anything to do with what I was talking about. You're correct in some sense thought that society should not permit the existence of billionaires. They should be taxed out of existence. @uu

@terryenglish @uu

You don't tax people out of existence. You just get them to move their value to where it's not taxed as heavily, and then you don't have investments and real poverty explodes.

@nerdman America must have been really poor during the 1950's then when the tax rate was much higher for individuals and corporations. @uu

@terryenglish @uu

You mean right after the rest of the industrialized world wrecked itself and there weren't places to make industrial goods at other than USA?

@nerdman That's not entirely true but alright the 1960's then after all countries in Europe were largely rebuilt. Point remains the same. @uu

@terryenglish @uu

You mean when industrial production started getting moved to Japan then Korea then China, Mexico, etc because USA was too expensive?

@nerdman @terryenglish @uu >because USA was too expensive

is that why

@fluffy @uu @terryenglish

What other reason could there be? Spite? That's not how getting rich works.

@nerdman @terryenglish @uu profit-seeking does not appropriately model all behavior

the stonetoss Burgers? comic comes to mind as an obvious example

@fluffy @uu @terryenglish

Oh of course. But if you're getting rich, profit seeking must necessarily be a very important behavior, no?