I think my sticking point is that it’s not 30 of your coins, necessarily. This is probably where I’m going wrong, but I might only have 100 coins, but there’s a multitude of people that have 1,000 coins, and some still that have 10,000 coins.
I feel like I’m muddling up production/living standards and just plain wealth, but not every individual would need to give 30%. There would be a total amount equaling 30% that is re-allocated.
The article was about production, not wealth. While Bezos certainly uses 1000x the production compared to a regular person, he doesn’t use the 1Billion times that his wealth represents. He doesn’t eat 1B cheeseburgers every day. So while you’d get more out of the 30% of extremely wealthy, it wouldn’t be proportional to their wealth and there’s only .1% of the population that’s in that category.
I think my sticking point is that it’s not 30 of your coins, necessarily. This is probably where I’m going wrong, but I might only have 100 coins, but there’s a multitude of people that have 1,000 coins, and some still that have 10,000 coins.
I feel like I’m muddling up production/living standards and just plain wealth, but not every individual would need to give 30%. There would be a total amount equaling 30% that is re-allocated.
The article was about production, not wealth. While Bezos certainly uses 1000x the production compared to a regular person, he doesn’t use the 1Billion times that his wealth represents. He doesn’t eat 1B cheeseburgers every day. So while you’d get more out of the 30% of extremely wealthy, it wouldn’t be proportional to their wealth and there’s only .1% of the population that’s in that category.