I want to know what will the rich people lose, when we tax more than 100M dollars.
Interfere with elections. Buy governments. Destroy democracy.
Depends. Turns out America for example is pretty cheap
Which makes it more accessible! Thanks, Obama!
Nah, I don’t like to jab at the USA by normalizing the shit load of money flowing into their politics, especially into some stupid election campaigns.
Buy a president.
Call yourself part of the “3 Comma Club”.
Buy POTUS.
Just honeypot him. You don’t need money.
Buy a professional sports team in the USA.
Build my own theme park with all the roller coasters I want.
Yep, you have another 990M dollars
Well… Kingda Ka is said to have cost $25m. Using that as a ballpark figure.
I want wooden coasters, steel coasters, hyper coasters. Other attractions, too. Gotta buy the land, build the infrastructure around the park, employ lots of people, build hotels, gastronomy… a billion might not even be enough for everything.
Launch an alcoholic drink named Tres Comas
you don’t need a billion dollars to do that
Own ten digits of wealth instead of nine. There’s nothing of actual value to billionaires. The point is to just watch the number get larger. Growth for growth’s sake; the ideology of a cancer cell.
build a hospital. although for a big one even a billion might not be enough.
To earn more money, or to help society? If you are trying to earn more money, what are you gonna do with it?
Build a bigger hospital to make even more money, obviously.
what are you gonna do with this more money
Build more hospital, make more money. We have enter a recursive loop.
WHAT are you gonna do with the money, I am getting exhausted. Are you trying to help people at this point because you are not spending it lol. Think that you own all hospitals all over the world, what are you gonna do
Build hospital in space. Must have more money.
I don’t think the money is the point, it’s the power and influence that the money can afford you that is the really important thing. Sometimes that will involve straightforward bribery, but most of the time it is ‘soft power’, i.e. a way of persuading others to do what you want. Sometimes that’ll be wining and dining them, sometimes it’ll involve a million or two donated to their favourite charity, sometimes it’ll involve a private island and lots of discretion. Often, I would imagine, one would not even need to spend the money, just the fact you could do these things in a way that would cause your target difficulty would be enough to have them do what you want.
Launch a spaceflight program (although that is something the government rather than individuals should be doing anyway)
Give bribe to the government to launch a space program and make them set you up for a role there. Way cheaper ;)
Give away 900 million dollars.
I agree with your premise though - too rich is just hoarding. There is no real lifestyle benefit.
While I can see many things with price tags well above 100 Million US$. Like planes, hospital, semi conductor lythography machine. A single person owning them is a problem per se.
Moreover, almost every serious project of super rich net worth tax isn’t capping your wealth, but just making sure you pay 1-2% of your net worth as takes which is still way less than everyone else, and won’t prevent you to get richer investment capital growth.
semi conductor lythography machine
I want that!
A private jet or a super yatch would still be out of your reach.
you can buy a jet for $5MM and retain a pilot for $200k pa
if recent events have shown me anything, raping children is much easier the more money you have.
