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[-] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 33 points 4 days ago

Having wealth over 1000 times the median family income.

[-] decended_being@midwest.social 11 points 3 days ago

I'd prefer it was simply prevented via policy rather than punished if breached.

[-] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

I would prefer a mixed system. All wealth over 1000x the median household income taxed at 100%. So no one should have a fortune larger than that, a number that would be approximately $80 million today. But if you secretly gather a fortune much larger than that? If you somehow secretly amass a fortune 10,000x the median household income? At that point I would apply severe criminal penalties, like a mandatory minimum 20 year sentence. I don't want to throw the book at someone just because they accidentally let their fortune grow a bit beyond the limit. But if you're a whole order of magnitude above it? Then that's when severe criminal penalties should apply. At some point your wealth becomes so large that you personally become a threat to national security. Amassing a fortune in the billions should be treated like a private citizen trying to build their own nuclear bomb. No one should have that much power, and we should treat both the same.

[-] nfreak@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Scale that back to 100x tops

[-] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

I like the 1000x threshold because that is approximately the maximum possible fortune one can amass in one's lifetime off of ordinary salary work and extreme frugality.

1000x the median income would be about $80 million. Consider the highest-earning non-executive salaried employees - people who spend years in school in very challenging fields. People like neurosurgeons. Imagine if there was a couple composed of two neurosurgeons, and they earn very good salaries. They're also so frugal that they spend basically nothing. You have a pair of neurosurgeons literally sleeping on the sidewalk out front of the hospital. They live like that, and they invest and save every penny they can. The highest salaried incomes combined with pathological frugality.

Even if they did all of that. Even if two highly educated workers lived off nothing and saved everything, even then those people would still struggle to earn, over their whole life, a fortune that exceeded 1000x the median household income.

Such a system allows for a capitalism that actually does live up to the marketing. You're allowed to earn a fortune as large as your own labor and skills will allow. However, the only way to obtain a fortune larger than this is to get into the business of labor arbitrage - hiring other people and harnessing the surplus of their labor. I want people to be able to earn as much money from the sweat of their own brow as they can. But I don't want people to be able to hoard strategically dangerous fortunes by exploiting the labor of others. And 1000x the median household income is a nice even number that's easy to explain to people and that achieves this goal.

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Private financing of political campaigns, lobbying, billionaire tax evasion, corporate personhood, corporate tax evasion, wealth over 100 million, private equity in housing or healthcare, employment dependent health insurance, misinformation presented as news, not enforcing laws on the wealthy, corporate subsidies, big farm subsidies(small community farms only), gerrymandering, for profit prisons and felons running for office.

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[-] haloduder@thelemmy.club 24 points 4 days ago

Advertising.

[-] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 15 points 4 days ago

Political lobbying and lifetime politicians.

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 140 points 5 days ago

elected officials stock trading

[-] firewyre@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago
[-] rekabis@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago

All you have to do is make it illegal to expose or proselytize religion to anyone under 22, and religion would likely die out within 2-3 generations.

When you have been raised as a rationalist and know, at a fundamental level, the bullshit detection system called the Scientific Method, you need to have some pretty powerful mental illness in play to willingly grasp at religion.

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[-] Weirdfish@lemmy.world 114 points 5 days ago
[-] haloduder@thelemmy.club 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Kind of pathetic how we still have to solve the issue of cutting up baby dicks as ritual.

Egypt's worse; they still cut off the clits of preteen girls as ritual.

Jews and Egyptians aren't even trying to hide it. They do it specifically to reduce the sensitivity of sexual organs.

Christians are the useful idiots (as always) who have been duped into thinking it's for 'medical' or 'aesthetic' purposes. In all honesty, Christians cut up the dicks of their kids because the dad's dick was cut up for him and he doesn't want to admit there's something wrong with it.

[-] Count042@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 days ago

Christians don't do it. Americans do it. And they did it for the same explicit reason as the others thanks to the psycho weirdo Kellogg of the cereal fame to try to prevent masturbation, and sexual pleasure.

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[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 9 points 4 days ago

Telling any support staff individual

"It just says error."

Punishment compounded based upon the degree of detailed information you simply decided to not bother reading before seeking assistance.

Lol

No, it should be punishable to build a system that just says "error" when it fails.

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[-] deaf_fish@midwest.social 11 points 4 days ago

Lying as a politician.

[-] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 57 points 5 days ago

Attempting to mislead a person for financial gain.

[-] wintermute@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 4 days ago

So basically all ads... I agree

[-] funkyfarmington@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

Don't forget car dealerships!

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[-] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)
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[-] AlHouthi4President@lemmy.ml 24 points 4 days ago

Supporting the state of "israel" with financial or other material means.

[-] chunes@lemmy.world 70 points 5 days ago

Being cruel to other people by hiding behind some power imbalance.

I don't want to live in a society where the consequence for this behavior is a meaningless fine.

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[-] manxu@piefed.social 45 points 5 days ago

Willful violations of the Constitution. Right now, elected officials can brazenly disregard the Constitution and the worst that happens is they are told not to do that again in the future, pretty please.

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[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 67 points 5 days ago

Lobbying; at least in its current form. Corporations being treated as people when it benefits them, but not when it would hurt them. Executives not being held legally accountable for the harm they inflict. SJC-Legalized bribery (as “speech”). HOAs. The Bail system. Legislatures redistricting themselves. Racial profiling. ICE. For-Profit prisons. For-Profit Healthcare. Destroying our ecosystem for profit.

[-] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 48 points 5 days ago

"ask me later" on phone apps. No means no!

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[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 71 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Companies reporting price increases as "adjusting for inflation" when the price hike does not match inflation should have the entire C-suite going to the gulag. We need to unironically do what China does with its rich, terrorize them and make them walk on eggshells and hand out ridiculously harsh punishments to management when a business commits a crime.

Also, campaign promises made by politicians running for office should be legally binding. If something they said would happen did not happen, they should be tried for treason and the burden should be on them to prove beyond reasonable doubt that they tried everything they possibly could to keep the promise but forces they could not possibly overcome prevented them from succeeding. Maybe then they'll only promise things they actually intend to do.

[-] vfreire85@lemmy.ml 19 points 4 days ago

earning more than 360,000 usd per year.

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[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 5 points 3 days ago

Driving a vehicle that can be heard over several suburan blocks

[-] Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 28 points 5 days ago

Anytbing that annoys me personally.

[-] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 48 points 5 days ago

Fixed prices for fines. These should be based on a fixed percentage, not fixed dollar amount, of a persons overall wealth. None of this bullshit that can bankrupt a poor person but be the price of admission for the rich.

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[-] Delascas@feddit.uk 16 points 4 days ago

Advertising, political parties and religions. All of them.

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[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 19 points 4 days ago

Leaving a shopping cart in a parking space instead of bringing it back to the cart shelter.

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[-] Oikio@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago

Production of cigarettes and tobacco.

As ex smoker who tried to quit so many times during almost two decades - I know how tough this drug can be and that it's wide acceptance as social norm makes it so much worse.

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[-] altphoto@lemmy.today 5 points 3 days ago

Park shade designers. All of them. Replace them with two guys from anywhere that have had a sunburn and know how to install a roof.

[-] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 27 points 5 days ago

Using your children to farm engagement online

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago

capitalist relations

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