Lately I feel more and more like humanity needs to seriously reconsider how to deal with crime
Most crime is related to money being an incentive one way or another. Remove that incentive, you remove those crime. Let’s implement world wide wealth caps so that nobody can have a networth over 10 million, anything else goes to taxes… This way wealth will be spread out, governments will have the funds for huge social systems like free healthcare, free education, universal basic income. No more poverty, so much less crime because of monetary reasons
Other crimes are of passion. Change how we educate children growing up. Include classes in schools about how we interact with eachother. Women are not objects to own and sell (looking at you, ex of my wife who literally wrote me an email to suggest we “sign the transfer of ownership papers” for his ex…) just like men.
Other crimes are related to mental illness. GET MENTAL HEALTH CARE UN YOUR UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE ALREADY!
Increase education funds so that everyone can have a proper education
With those things fixed, I want to imagine that crime rates would drop so significantly that we could close most prisons.
Then for those few people where we do need prisons, have reintegration paths, education, mental health support, whatever they need.
I know it’s a pipe dream, but I don’t see this as an impossible solution either
Rich people can move easily, but their assets have an address. Gold sits in a vault, stocks are listed in New York. Factories have an address, land cannot be moved.
They don’t have to live here to tax their wealth. If they sell everything in our country and buy assets in some other country, then assets in our country become more affordable for normal people. There is no downside, unless you think rich people are some irreplaceable assets into themselves.
Rich people will move rather than pay their fair share of tax.
This so far has not been true, at least not in NY or WA. Rich people also want to be around actual services and amenities, something not generally found outside of cities. They’ll totally claim that they’ll leave, yes. Yet, they haven’t fled from NY…
Lately I feel more and more like humanity needs to seriously reconsider how to deal with crime
Most crime is related to money being an incentive one way or another. Remove that incentive, you remove those crime. Let’s implement world wide wealth caps so that nobody can have a networth over 10 million, anything else goes to taxes… This way wealth will be spread out, governments will have the funds for huge social systems like free healthcare, free education, universal basic income. No more poverty, so much less crime because of monetary reasons
Other crimes are of passion. Change how we educate children growing up. Include classes in schools about how we interact with eachother. Women are not objects to own and sell (looking at you, ex of my wife who literally wrote me an email to suggest we “sign the transfer of ownership papers” for his ex…) just like men.
Other crimes are related to mental illness. GET MENTAL HEALTH CARE UN YOUR UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE ALREADY!
Increase education funds so that everyone can have a proper education
With those things fixed, I want to imagine that crime rates would drop so significantly that we could close most prisons.
Then for those few people where we do need prisons, have reintegration paths, education, mental health support, whatever they need.
I know it’s a pipe dream, but I don’t see this as an impossible solution either
Rich people will move rather than pay their fair share of tax. I hear Bermuda’s nice.
America has no universal healthcare, so there’s nothing to add psyche care into.
Rich people can move easily, but their assets have an address. Gold sits in a vault, stocks are listed in New York. Factories have an address, land cannot be moved.
They don’t have to live here to tax their wealth. If they sell everything in our country and buy assets in some other country, then assets in our country become more affordable for normal people. There is no downside, unless you think rich people are some irreplaceable assets into themselves.
Tax wealth not work.
This so far has not been true, at least not in NY or WA. Rich people also want to be around actual services and amenities, something not generally found outside of cities. They’ll totally claim that they’ll leave, yes. Yet, they haven’t fled from NY…
It starts with wealth taxes. 4% per year on fortunes over 10 million.
That can be increased to a point that any fortune over 10 mil will shrink over time instead of grow.
That will democratise wealth.