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If you press the button, the top 10% earners in the world (who hold 85% of the world's wealth) will be forced to forfeit their earnings and be given a fixed allowance equal to 5% their prior income. Their money'll be distributed to everyone else, proportionally according to need.

Press the button
53.8%
Don't press the button
46.2%

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7:49 AM · Jan 22, 2018

are you aware that i am using this poll to prove a point

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I’m confused, are you’re trying to make a point that half your followers are idiots that don’t understand basic morality and economics? Or do you actually support this notion?

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Aella

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Jan 29, 2018

54% of you would force everyone who makes $13,700 a year or more to forfeit all their earnings, with allowances starting at $685/year. twitter.com/Aella_Girl/staShow this thread

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10% is only 170K. 5% of 170K is only 8.5K. That’s not very much.

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Rich people aren't evil. EVIL rich people are evil. I've met many people that built up honest and successful companies.

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It’s miraculous! We’re no longer poor!

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Not sure if peole would understand that most Americans would fall in that 10% accoring to world standards. If we think about what would happen if all Americans would only earn 5% of their income, it would be easy to see why this would ruin the world than better it.

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Who wouldn't and why the hell not?

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They didn't earn it.