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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.

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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.Show this poll

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10:34 AM · Jan 29, 2018

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Did you also do one of these with just 1%? I think I voted for that one but against this one but I might just be a cruel socialist with a bad memory idk.

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Top 1% of the WORLD makes 32k a year. The top 1% varies dramatically between countries. In the united states, it's 389k per year. Certain countries are terribly unequal, others are not as much.

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Missing the important context of where that would land them, percentage wise, in the new scenario

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