Finland's taxes on rich people are high enough to support social services. The rich are also expected to help the community via philanthropy & business practices. Flaunting wealth is considered repugnant and that's why Finns go naked in the sauna: to strip away social status and promote equality.
Smaugs horde including the diamonds he used to reinforce his armor and the Arkenstone is estimated to be worth $15-62 billion dollars which means he wouldn’t even make the top 20 list for richest persons.
We don't tell our children stories about dragons to convince them dragons exist.
We tell dragon stories to teach our children the dragon can be slayed.
We can’t complain. We all stood by while Ronnie Raygun created the 1% with his “Trickle Down Economic Theory.” Simple as that unless you can name more than a few billionaires prior to TDET?
Tax law changes, the advent of the 401k and IRA sealed the deal.
Trumps 45 years in the making.
"Stood by?" Um, I was 10 years old when Reagan was elected.
But yeah, maybe the people now retiring or already retired could've not fallen for that Trickle Down BS. Hell, my father-in-law still believes in it. 😞
In reality only those wealthy enough to have the very best of the best Accountants and Lawyers that could explain how it would all shake out. Never sell stock. Only buy dips. It’s how the 15% accumulated 85% of all stocks.
If you remember Harris wanted to tax ‘unrealized’ capital gains.
Well... a dumb person would not be able to collect all their wealth. So while it is not qualification, it's somewhat a sign of general competence. Like you have to be at least good at choosing people that work for you.
If you earn $100,000 a day, no taxes or anything taken out. You stuff that in a mattress, daily.
After 27.5 YEARS, you’d have 1 billion dollars.
Do the math and see these people are simply draining the wealth from everyone.
It's the name of a monster that delights in pain and suffering, no one should confuse the tools they use with the actual desired outcome they seek. It's a sociopath illness that delights even in the terrible painful death of the perpetrator. Most of us delight in being loved. They do not.
They’re terrible people
But a billionaire such as Taylor Swift or Tiger Woods is different
Both didn’t intend on being so rich, their talent was just so much better than the rest
But they both give generous amounts of money to the less fortunate
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And demonstratively depressing at the same time
RESIST!💙🇺🇸😎
Did I see you on an interview on politico?
#AuditElmo #DefundElmo #DeportElmo #JailCheetolini
We tell dragon stories to teach our children the dragon can be slayed.
Tax law changes, the advent of the 401k and IRA sealed the deal.
Trumps 45 years in the making.
But yeah, maybe the people now retiring or already retired could've not fallen for that Trickle Down BS. Hell, my father-in-law still believes in it. 😞
If you remember Harris wanted to tax ‘unrealized’ capital gains.
-obviously not a dragon
After 27.5 YEARS, you’d have 1 billion dollars.
Do the math and see these people are simply draining the wealth from everyone.
But a billionaire such as Taylor Swift or Tiger Woods is different
Both didn’t intend on being so rich, their talent was just so much better than the rest
But they both give generous amounts of money to the less fortunate
Scott Disick is rich, would anyone want him running literally anything?