Re: <nettime> EU wealth tax petition

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On 7/25/24 23:57, Brian Holmes via nettime-l wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 3:59 AM franz schaefer via nettime-l <
> nettime-l@lists.nettime.org> wrote:
>
> > i signed it already.  but one thing that bothers me a bit is that all the
> > left wing initiatives still focus so much on the "redistribution" while
> > makeing very little afford to educate people about the madness of the
> > capitalist production.
> >
> > as a rough guestimate: about 50% of jobs today are bullshit jobs. wasted
> > work in the burocracy of corporate structures but even more: creating
> > artifical scarcity and jobs that (just alone by their ecologic
> > footprint) create more harm then good. products with planed obsolescence.
> > advertising which has just one product: to trick us into buying things we
> > did not know we even need, etc...etc..
>
> Hear hear! At least half of what capitalism now distributes is not goods,
> but harms.
> The point of taxing the rich is to get rid of the billionaire class, not to
> become part of it...

I'd say the point is to use the enormous tax potential to pay key 
workers as much as, say, Associate Professors.

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