LVMH owner Bernard Arnault, who could take €1bn hit, says proposed 2% levy ‘aims to destroy liberal economy’
  • DupaCycki@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 天前

    If the ultra rich say your idea will ruin the economy - congratulations, you’ve got a great idea.

  • Tigeroovy@lemmy.caEnglish
    30·
    2 天前

    Hey y’know what other famously French thing will be deadly for rich people if they’re not taxed?

  • nonentity@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    18·
    2 天前

    Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

    • Karjalan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      3 天前

      Actually it has some factual basis. He’s wealthy, it would be bad for him, he thinks he’s the economy. He just has a big, selfish, ego.

      • groet@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        2 天前

        It could actually be true in the sense that producing 1mil things for 1€ each or producing a single overpriced luxury version of the same thing for 2mil€ is a 1mil€ difference in the GDP.

        But I’d argue the first is still a better economy than the second. But economists will only like the second one.

      • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        3 天前

        These people have the same revenue as a small country, so I can see where they’re coming from.

        I still think we should use their bodies as fertilizer.

        • wheezy@lemmy.mlEnglish
          5·
          3 天前

          Vietnam would like a word.

          Edit: I’m not pro death penalty (latest update has Vietnam actually removing it for this crime due to this case) but just showing the absolute night and day difference between how they treat capitalist that cause death and poverty through their greed.

      • wheezy@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        3 天前

        When they inevitably try to pretend they are pulling business from new York when Mamdani becomes mayor. Please, everyone, use this as an opportunity to show how evil the structures of capitalism are.

        It will be a perfect time to explain class conflict to your liberal friends. The interest of the people of New York will be held hostage by capital. And overwhelmingly popular policy will be talk about as “unrealistic” and “poor economics”.

        Yes, that is why capitalist must lose their power. They are holding the popular policies of the people hostage. That power should not exist in their hands but the hands of the people.

        Capitalism is incompatible with democracy. The economy and politics are not separate. We cannot have a dictatorship controlling our companies and economy and call it a “democratic process”.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      433·
      3 天前

      Okay, but what if the financial sector launches a capital strike?

      Cuba is a great example of the results. Powerful worker state, but it is bottled up and suffocated by the US led embargo.

      • cecilkorik@lemmy.caEnglish
        221·
        3 天前

        Then the world must go on labor strike. Capital requires our consent. Withdraw consent, seize the means of production and begin the class war. We are outgunned, but they are outnumbered, and we can easily get more guns once they can’t get any more numbers.

        Viva Revolución, Viva Cuba Libre!

  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    361·
    3 天前

    “Rich guy says that forcing the rich to pay for their fair share of the costs of having a Society where they can make lots of money, would actually be bad for those currently having to make up for the rich not paying their fair share”

  • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
    212·
    3 天前

    Bernard Arnault is worth 157.3 billion USD. $1 billion dollars is 0.6% of their wealth. That’s fucking couch change. These fucking ghouls are so worried about their precious wealth they are willing to doom all of us.

  • Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    3 天前

    You see a lot of this coming from the rich and their lap dogs. But its never not been bullshit. Pick any country you want in the world. Force Amazon, for example, to pay its full share in taxes. The muppets will say “But then Amazon will leave, taking all those jobs with them!”. So… they would leave a space in the market, right? So someone else would come along and replace them. You can apply this to any industry that tries to scare people with “but X would leave”. Who cares? Theres always going to be someone looking to make money. And being able to make a fuck load of amazon money would be quite awesome. And thats even with paying fucking taxes.

    And as for individuals threatening to leave X country, fuck um. We dont need them sucking up all the money anyway.

    There needs to be an overhaul in our various societies. Its 2025, and the idea of billionaires in a world where children still starve to death is disgusting. No one needs billions. Hell, no one needs millions. The world, if we could all agree, should limit personal wealth to 100m. Thats it. Once you start earning, through any means, that puts your wealth, in any form, above that number, you pay a 100% tax rate. Or, you can just fucking retire, and let the next generation earn their fair share.

    The poor are the majority. And the rich and powerful dont fear us nearly enough…

    • grte@lemmy.caEnglish
      11·
      3 天前

      The muppets will say “But then Amazon will leave[…]"

      Imagine being upset that the freeloader sleeping on your couch and eating all the food in your fridge without contributing anything leaves.

  • Tiger666@lemmy.caEnglish
    19·
    3 天前

    Isn’t he the asshole who said he would help pay for that famous church that burned down a while ago and never gave them a red cent?