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What are examples of indignities caused by social hierarchical structures I might experience but dismiss due to habit?
Edit: thanks, all! Were some examples I thought of before, but many “novel” ones too. Definitely nice to try to be explicit about it, I think
love as a market like in dating apps, police, being jobless, having a job, the monetary system, internet providers, housing, politicians idk a lot
I’m not even an anarchist, but anything and everything related to job hunting, for instance.
If you are American capital is taxed less than labor.
After skimming through the Country section of the Wikipedia article on capital gains tax, it seems that the rate of capital gains tax is commonly lower than that of labour. Quite a few places also had capital gains tax removed in favour of a total tax rate on income + capital gains.
Personally, I think it’s important to tax capital gains closer to labour tax rates, to better distribute wealth. But a more efficient way is maybe by wealth tax. I would even consider lowering taxes on businesses for a wealth tax (as to not cause exodus of the rich - the point is not to get rid of them, just their massive wealth and means of hoarding too much).
How do you calculate “wealth”? It’s obviously not impossible, but it’s easier for billionaires to game their wealth then it is capital gains.
Tax capital gains much more than labor and tax loans on capital and a wealth tax will eventually be redundant. I do think either way we will need a one time wealth tax to redistribute capital.
We do not need the rich, the point is to get rid of them. Rent seekers and money changers aren’t a necessary part of the economy and there is no legitimate reason to keep them.
