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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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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

sounds quiet unusual to be honest

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
  • 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?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"valuable goods ... benefiting everyone" not on the cost of others is what's lacking here

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

you missed something when citing me

not on the cost of others

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

not on the cost of others

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

The child forced to harvest coffee

It's fault of their governments