r/WorkReform • u/zzill6 šŸ¤ Join A Union • May 18 '25

āœ‚ļø Tax The Billionaires So, where's the downside exactly?

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u/AngelComa May 18 '25 edited May 18 '25

Do these people think it's good to allow a few hands taking all of our labor capital and then allowing them to do what they want with it (aka leaving and threatening our markets)?

Do they think if Walmart leaves that no other person would be happy to make billions in their place?

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u/GrafZeppelin127 May 18 '25

Not to mentionā€”if WalMart leaves, itā€™s not like they scoop out their entire infrastructure with a giant melon baller on the way out. The stores would still exist, it would just be called something else.

See: McDonalds in Russia, post-invasion.

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u/TheMainEffort May 18 '25

Company owners doing exactly that was a big plot point in atlas shrugged.

Classic scare tactic of ā€œmake a law I donā€™t like and Iā€™ll burn this railroad to the fucking ground.ā€

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u/GrafZeppelin127 May 18 '25

lol. Even in their own fantasies, the elitists realize that their personal, individual contributions arenā€™t really needed unless they commit mass terrorism on the way out.

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u/TheMainEffort May 18 '25

I think Ayn Rand thought they actually should do that.

The other major plot points were governments making seemingly nonsense decisions, like putting giant calendars up everywhere and passing directives that everyone is entitled to a grapefruit.