Having power and wealth destroys empathy for less powerful people on a physiological level. That allows them to exploit people harder to get more wealth and power.
Taxing they wealth away doesn’t work. Maybe just put people in jail for every year they have x amount of dollar. You can be free or wealthy, not both.
Just an FYI, that goes all the way down the power chain. We tend to have less (instinctive) empathy for people below us. It’s not we actively want to do them harm, but that we just don’t think about them at all.
E.g. when did you last take proactive action to help the exploited workers harvesting chocolate? You likely never even thought about them.
The problem is that people like musk look down on us the same way. We get smashed by their indifference.
The best long term solution is a tax system aimed at “regression to the mean”. I.e. exceptional people can get rich. However rich, “average” people will regress back towards average income and savings. Conversely, an averagely capable poor person should easily climb back up to average income levels.
Basically change the graph from a hump to a bathtub shape.
Having power and wealth destroys empathy for less powerful people on a physiological level. That allows them to exploit people harder to get more wealth and power.
Taxing they wealth away doesn’t work. Maybe just put people in jail for every year they have x amount of dollar. You can be free or wealthy, not both.
Just an FYI, that goes all the way down the power chain. We tend to have less (instinctive) empathy for people below us. It’s not we actively want to do them harm, but that we just don’t think about them at all.
E.g. when did you last take proactive action to help the exploited workers harvesting chocolate? You likely never even thought about them.
The problem is that people like musk look down on us the same way. We get smashed by their indifference.
The best long term solution is a tax system aimed at “regression to the mean”. I.e. exceptional people can get rich. However rich, “average” people will regress back towards average income and savings. Conversely, an averagely capable poor person should easily climb back up to average income levels.
Basically change the graph from a hump to a bathtub shape.