RE: Just sold22 Oct 2025 12:25
Of course the AI billionaires (soon to be trillionaires) will 'resist' being heavily taxed, whether income taxes or wealth taxes. Human nature is greed, after all. But they will have to accept it, because without being heavily taxed there will no longer be an economy for them to continue to profit from - and their ludicrous wealth will only have to be spent on private armies and missile batteries for their palaces. How many palaces, private islands, private A380s, private armies and maybe personal spaceships can one person buy? There needs to be some incentive for people to aim for greater wealth, or else we lapse into socialist stagnation, but dog-eat-dog crony capitalism and rule of the trillionaire oligarchs while 99% of the population struggles to survive, is not a desirable outcome either. Reasonable, fair and progressive taxation is the price we pay for civilisation, or else we will end up back in medieval squalor of the lords vs the peasants.