We need taxes for all - also the super-rich.

“Tax the rich” is an official EU petition. The EU Parliament has to deal with it when successful.

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The petition calls for the introduction of a wealth tax on very large fortunes. Sign the petition here

  • BlackLaZoR@fedia.io
    312·
    2 months ago

    Usually by starting a company that produced valuable goods and services benefitting everyone and profiting off of it.

    You can also gamble but thats by definition a losing game

      • BlackLaZoR@fedia.io
        310·
        2 months ago

        sounds quiet unusual to be honest

        I think it’s the most common road to be a millionaire.

        Microsoft - Bill Gates Amazon - Jeff Bezos Berkshire Hathaway - Warren Buffet CDProjekt - Adam Kiciński, Marcin Iwiński (They started from absolute nothing, bazar stand with bootleg software) TOYOTA - Akio Toyoda, branched out from family buisness in textile industry

        Literally every single successful business made it’s founder a fortune

        • atro_city@fedia.io
          9·
          2 months ago
          • Microsoft: monopolist founded with a “small loan”
          • Amazon: monopolist founded with a “small loan”
          • Berkshire Hathaway - founded by a congressman’s son with access to wealth and education
          • CDProjekt, wow an outlier!
          • TOYOTA - generational wealth

          Literally every single successful business made it’s founder a fortune

          LMFAO “the winners won”. Any other tautologies you want to spout? “The losers lost” maybe?

          • BlackLaZoR@fedia.io
            16·
            2 months ago

            Even if you had access to the capital, you’d most likely fail - because running a business is hard

            For every Bill Gates or Bezos there are dozens if not hundreds who sunk the entire initial investment.

            You hate survivors for some reason.

            • atro_city@fedia.io
              3·
              2 months ago

              Invests money they don’t own at no risk

              Allowed to do so as many times as necessary until success

              Has access to advisors, education, can hire entire teams out of the gate

              “I am just like you”

        • 7eter@feddit.orgOP
          51·
          2 months ago

          “valuable goods … benefiting everyone” not on the cost of others is what’s lacking here

          • BlackLaZoR@fedia.io
            36·
            2 months ago

            valuable goods … benefiting everyone

            If other people are buying what you produce, in almost every case you produce something valuable, and a person who buys from you benefits.

            There are exceptions - drugs, weapons, slot machines ect.

            But basically everything you see around yourself that was made by man, was produced by a successful business, and bought by somone who needed it.

              • BlackLaZoR@fedia.io
                37·
                2 months ago

                not on the cost of others

                It’s not on the cost of others, its a fair exchange. Both sides benefit

                • atro_city@fedia.io
                  5·
                  2 months ago

                  And the people in the middle? Sure, the people exploited for the production of those goods benefited a lot. The child forced to harvest coffee and chocolate really enjoyed the transaction.