the most dangerous thing about left wing normalization of a 70, 80, 90 percent wealth tax is the story it binds to the american psyche — you will never be rich.
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Worse, the sense of inevitable personal stagnation must defend itself: enter tall poppy syndrome. Only bad people are successful, and success only makes them worse. You don’t just take what’s necessary, you take to punish. Really easy to enter a cultural death spiral from there
A really sad thing is that there are many hands reaching out & a tremendous amount of free/cheap info on developing one’s skills/thinking for the period of rocky growth ahead, but if you hate the entire class of people who’ve walked the path, that benefit is unavailable to you
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As someone who grew up surrounded by alternative types in college town, this attitude got me for a couple years.
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Interesting perspectives that I had not thought about, but make intuitive sense. Somehow both depressing and motivating at the same time. Thanks for sharing.
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