We need taxes for all - also the super-rich.

“Tax the rich” is an official EU petition. The EU Parliament has to deal with it when successful.

7 EU countries must reach the quorum. And in total 1M Votes are needed. Check yours in the chart and share, cross post etc.!

The petition calls for the introduction of a wealth tax on very large fortunes. Sign the petition here

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    3 months ago

    Usually by starting a company that produced valuable goods and services benefitting everyone and profiting off of it.

    You can also gamble but thats by definition a losing game

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        3 months ago

        sounds quiet unusual to be honest

        I think it’s the most common road to be a millionaire.

        Microsoft - Bill Gates Amazon - Jeff Bezos Berkshire Hathaway - Warren Buffet CDProjekt - Adam Kiciński, Marcin Iwiński (They started from absolute nothing, bazar stand with bootleg software) TOYOTA - Akio Toyoda, branched out from family buisness in textile industry

        Literally every single successful business made it’s founder a fortune

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          • Microsoft: monopolist founded with a “small loan”
          • Amazon: monopolist founded with a “small loan”
          • Berkshire Hathaway - founded by a congressman’s son with access to wealth and education
          • CDProjekt, wow an outlier!
          • TOYOTA - generational wealth

          Literally every single successful business made it’s founder a fortune

          LMFAO “the winners won”. Any other tautologies you want to spout? “The losers lost” maybe?

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            Even if you had access to the capital, you’d most likely fail - because running a business is hard

            For every Bill Gates or Bezos there are dozens if not hundreds who sunk the entire initial investment.

            You hate survivors for some reason.

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          “valuable goods … benefiting everyone” not on the cost of others is what’s lacking here

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            valuable goods … benefiting everyone

            If other people are buying what you produce, in almost every case you produce something valuable, and a person who buys from you benefits.

            There are exceptions - drugs, weapons, slot machines ect.

            But basically everything you see around yourself that was made by man, was produced by a successful business, and bought by somone who needed it.

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                3 months ago

                not on the cost of others

                It’s not on the cost of others, its a fair exchange. Both sides benefit

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                  And the people in the middle? Sure, the people exploited for the production of those goods benefited a lot. The child forced to harvest coffee and chocolate really enjoyed the transaction.