The top 1% are cancer on society. Quite literally. They consume resources and expand to the point where it kills the host.
People in the top 20%, excluding the 1%, aren’t like that. They’re surely more comfortable. They surely have better opportunity. But their existence doesn’t threaten the rest of us.
The comment you replied to states “The rich will claim you’re driving them to abject poverty if you tax them into only having a million dollars.”
You say people with $1.000.000 still have to work, they are not “actual rich folk”. But that’s not relevant to the comment you reply to, since them “having to work all day” and them still being able to be “bankrupt by medical debt” still doesn’t equal the abject poverty the rich claim they’ll be driven to. In other words, it doesn’t matter that people with one million are not in the same position as the people with ten million, because neither would be living in abject poverty; ergo my comment.
Yes i do and i totally agree with your point, just pointing at a flaw in your reasoning
Oh, I’m still not seeing it. Sorry.
The top 1% are cancer on society. Quite literally. They consume resources and expand to the point where it kills the host.
People in the top 20%, excluding the 1%, aren’t like that. They’re surely more comfortable. They surely have better opportunity. But their existence doesn’t threaten the rest of us.
The comment you replied to states “The rich will claim you’re driving them to abject poverty if you tax them into only having a million dollars.”
You say people with $1.000.000 still have to work, they are not “actual rich folk”. But that’s not relevant to the comment you reply to, since them “having to work all day” and them still being able to be “bankrupt by medical debt” still doesn’t equal the abject poverty the rich claim they’ll be driven to. In other words, it doesn’t matter that people with one million are not in the same position as the people with ten million, because neither would be living in abject poverty; ergo my comment.
That classifies people with 2 million as rich. I’m saying that even with 5 million you need to keep working.
I’m saying whether you need to keep working or not is not relevant, since it in neither case does owning that amount equal to abject poverty.