Groups > comp.os.linux.advocacy > #486027

Re: Rigged global economy

From	owl <owl@rooftop.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: Rigged global economy
Date	2019-01-26 19:14 +0000
Organization	O.W.L.
Message-ID	<s8z080b8z0b3.3uo4@rooftop.invalid> (permalink)
References	(5 earlier) <3e858554-2ca5-49f9-acb1-0ae9393e73f5@googlegroups.com> <a8z0x8b09883tga.3@rooftop.invalid> <650d25c1-f624-4bf8-ac39-f9ad7f929cab@googlegroups.com> <s8080b3ga.3h3u4@rooftop.invalid> <a4fe1feb-13b7-45ce-9404-9b20c78c3703@googlegroups.com>

Show all headers | View raw

Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, January 26, 2019 at 11:27:31 AM UTC-7, owl wrote:
>> Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Saturday, January 26, 2019 at 10:30:18 AM UTC-7, owl wrote:

>> >> Like a corporation?   Are corporations going to be exempt from the cap?
>> > 
>> > Not in this scenario. I don't see why there'd be a lack of interest
>> > with the cap, though, if that's what they're legally limited to. I
>> > don't necessarily like the idea but it's clear we're heading down a
>> > path we shouldn't head down, where a very small percentage of the 
>> > earth's population owns most of the wealth (we did that sh*t  already).
>> > 
>> 
>> Even if corporations are not limited, you will have investors having to
>> watch that they don't invest in a way that wastes their money by having
>> the cumulative value of the stock they own in various corporations hit
>> the individual cap.  But why would corporations be exempt anyway?
> 
> "Not in this scenario" meant corporations should *not* be exempt.
> 

Yeah, I misread that.  So if corporations are not exempt, then
they hit the same wall that an individual would hit with respect
to investment/development resources.  Even though the risk to the
shareholders is spread around, the corporation can still do no more than
an individual could, even one who might be willing to risk the farm on
a project.

Thread

Rigged global economy Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2019-01-26 09:56 +0000
  Re: Rigged global economy Amanda KoXXX <iscariot694me@simplivr4.org> - 2019-01-26 14:39 +0000
  Re: Rigged global economy Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2019-01-26 07:11 -0800
    Re: Rigged global economy Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2019-01-26 16:10 +0000
  Re: Rigged global economy owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2019-01-26 15:49 +0000
    Re: Rigged global economy Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2019-01-26 16:10 +0000
      Re: Rigged global economy Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2019-01-26 08:36 -0800
        Re: Rigged global economy owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2019-01-26 16:56 +0000
          Re: Rigged global economy Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2019-01-26 09:17 -0800
            Re: Rigged global economy owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2019-01-26 17:30 +0000
              Re: Rigged global economy Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2019-01-26 10:06 -0800
                Re: Rigged global economy owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2019-01-26 18:27 +0000
                Re: Rigged global economy Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2019-01-26 10:56 -0800
                Re: Rigged global economy owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2019-01-26 19:14 +0000
                Re: Rigged global economy Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2019-01-26 11:17 -0800
                Re: Rigged global economy owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2019-01-26 19:47 +0000
                Re: Rigged global economy Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2019-01-26 12:13 -0800
                Re: Rigged global economy owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2019-01-26 20:32 +0000
                Re: Rigged global economy Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2019-01-27 07:50 -0800
        Re: Rigged global economy Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2019-01-26 19:18 +0000

csiph-web