We've heard that the world's wealthiest 10 percent are disproportionately responsible for environmental damage.

It’s difficult to put a price on the environment, and some scientists even argue it’s beside the point: that nature has intrinsic value, beyond the services it provides to us.

But in some situations, it helps to try to put it in economic terms: especially when those are the terms the world’s wealthiest are used to dealing in.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    151·
    6 days ago

    WEALTH CAPS, NOW

    I don’t want anybody able to have a networth over 10 million dollars, doesn’t matter where they live. Any income over 10 million needs to go 100% to taxes

    NO MORE MULTI MILLION AIRES, LET ALONE BILLIONAIRES, LET ALONE TRILLIONAIRES

    • Dymonika@beehaw.org
      12·
      6 days ago

      And then reduce taxes on the rest. By the way, it probably shouldn’t be an arbitrary amount like $10 mil but should be a multiplier of whatever the poverty level is designated as, like 100:1 or 1,000:1 or something. That way it can scale with inflation/deflation.