Lets not be has-tety Fell-ow Hoo-Man, perhaps they come in peace Beep BoopButlerian Jihad when?
... we need to have a government that basically caps incomes at 2 million and inheritances at 5 million. It's time to bring back 'Share our Wealth'... or have a Russian October Revolution on our hands.
One phrase for you:Err... not that fond of forced wealth redistribution schemes, man. Sorry.
Remember the phrase "Let the Tall Poppies Fall"? That is the situation your family will be in with that inheritance. In an October Revolution scenario, all that negotiation will be -at best- for naught and at worst be the noose around your family's necks.Well, since my mother's extended family is in protracted negotiation with her home state government over a $28 million settlement over lands granted by the state to an ancestor, so... yeah, if my country practises forced wealth distribution none of the family will be seeing a single cent of their inheritance.
October is a terrible time in 'Murica. People are in Halloween mode, and are paranoid over slasher movie villains attacking. They are prepared.One phrase for you:
Humans May Not Apply.We've finally outdated ourselves with our technology, and automation is basically snowballing to the point where humans don't have a say in the economy anymore because they're too expensive. As such, to prevent an October Revolution style revolution (i.e. anyone rich/upper class gets exterminated to the last man, woman, and child and anyone that goes against the revolution is killed off as well), we must pull a Bismark and pull the carpet from right from under them... and that means we have to forcibly redistribute the wealth.
(I would have made it bigger, but that is as big as I can get)
Actually, what I meant is the Russian October Revolution, aka 'Red October' i.e. the bloodfest that everyone has in their mind when Russian Revolution is heard. The same revolution that kicked off the atrocity-fest that is the Russian Civil War.October is a terrible time in 'Murica. People are in Halloween mode, and are paranoid over slasher movie villains attacking. They are prepared.
Maybe try July. More critical staff on family vacation, slower response times. Meanwhile, if the revolutionaries have children, they can have good family fun purging corrupt capitalists and their lapdogs without interrupting school schedule. Education is important.
Problem, there aren't enough super rich with more sense than greed in the right place to go TR... at least as far as I can tell.We have enough super rich with a brain in the US that I'm hoping to get another TR before we fall that far