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Is your yearly income above or below $35k? || If you press the button, the top 1% global income earners have their wealth automatically, proportionally redistributed among the 99% (with a little left over for them to live on). Do you press the button?

Above || yes
28%
Above || no
38%
Below || yes
16.7%
Below || no
17.4%

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10:13 PM · Oct 29, 2019

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What is the cutoff for the 1% in Boston? Or local cost of living? Context matters. I'm not living in a economy where 35k is a lot. But in rural India it would be a opulent.

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The question specifies globally

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I mean, when we talk about the “wealth of the 1%” we’re mostly talking about stocks, bonds, and shares, not money. Those aren’t of much use to the average person

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Hell yeah let’s do this baby gonna be a party!

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Think carefully before voting on this one

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85 people have pushed the button so far. That is going to have rather a much more dramatic effect than one push, and a rather less attractive one. Especially if they keep doing it.

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People not realizing if you make more than 35k or more you're in the global 1% is astonishing to me

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There is so much to unpack with that. Is this a perfect system? Does it include all assets like the ones that don't get included by the government(the genie scenario)? Does it liquidate the assets if it does? Is it just liquid assets?

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No, purely because a lot of wealth is not easily distributed: a person's home or business is worth a lot more to them than to a stranger. If we were just talking cash then yes, and I'd gladly give my part.

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Oct 30, 2019

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Above yes but only after I've moved out of the bay area