• Seasm0ke@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Us had a 90% top tax rate at one time. Inheritance tax redistributes wealth. Nationalization of industries such as banking. Cubas economy grew after redistribution despite the embargo until the fall of the Soviet Union. China has a 90% rate of home ownership https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_in_China Germany requires a percentage of each company shareholders be employees https://insigniam.com/in-germany-a-law-to-give-employees-a-voice-and-a-vote/

    It has been done before and can be done again, with or without liberal democracy.

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      1 day ago

      China has a 90% rate of home ownership https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_in_China

      china also recommends you invest like, the majority of all of your wealth into housing, which is a currently crashing market right now. So that’s for better or for worse.

      anyway, these are all liberal based ideologies. I have nothing against any of them, except maybe nationalizing banking, but i’m not strictly against it, i just don’t know what that entails.

      and yes, it can be done, with or without them, but we already have the structure of a liberal democracy, and the experience and knowledge required to make it work. I don’t know why so many lefties are hell bent and destroying it all in favor of a more unstable governance structure. Especially one that doesn’t seem to exist.

      Maybe it’s all just yapping, and nobody believes anything they say, but that seems like a silly argument on it’s face imo.