Proposal: every million dollars in wealth gets you a ticket in the anti-lottery. Every month, there's a draw, and whoever's ticket is drawn has all of their wealth except 800k confiscated, and redistributed evenly across all citizens.
@joepie91 cool, now if we can just arrange to select all the tickets...
@bananas That'll happen pretty quickly over time anyway :) The more wealth you hoard, the more you put yourself at risk of losing it all
@joepie91 yes, but a lottery is inherently unfair. better to be fair and just take them all.
@bananas I bet the unfairness would just make it more appealing to the target demographic
@joepie91 Needs more spectacle. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire except with billionaires and whoever loses gets their net worth reduced to a million.
It's redistribution of wealth, it doesn't rely on the government being a good steward of the money (like it would if it were put into a government fund), and unlike wealth taxes any argument of "it makes it not worth it to invest into anything" is automatically and obviously bullshit (not that it wasn't already, but now it's harder to claim). What's not to love?