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I think that, somewhere north of $1 ~ $5 million is life-changing on its own. There's no need for someone to have tens of millions or hundreds of millions. Tens of millions is like, changing multiple lives in a family with how much that can stretch.

Whenever someone has billions to their name, it is boggling to think about. That it becomes just 'fuck you' money at that point because more often than not, not a lot of billionaires out there being charitable. When they know they're set for a few lifetimes just by a single billion alone.

No single person should ever have that amount of gross wealth.

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[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io -2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It was very brave of you to post your question here. It's OK to be ignorant on some things, and asking questions is how we learn!

I hope you got some good information and that no one tried to use your question to go on some kind of weird political tirade. It can be very controversial on Lemmy to ponder if rich people maybe have too much money.

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[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca -4 points 1 day ago (17 children)

The problem with "wealth" or taxing it while someone is alive is that there's a problem when it comes to businesses.

If you taxed Zuckerburg, Musk, or Bezos 90% of their wealth, they would lose control of their companies because that's where most of their wealth exists as the stock they own in their company.

I'm a big fan of a limit on wealth transfer to your children though, cap that shit at 10 million and give the billionaires a reason to spend or give away all their money before they die. Spent money stimulates the economy.

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