Don't worry too much. The whole thing is bound to collapse sometime. Without dramatic political changes, the US won't be able to pay its bills rather soon. It almost happened not too long ago, but they were able to dodge that bullet (once again). However, the day will come when that isn't possible anymore. Just imagine the US filing bankruptcy. All those US dollars will become worthless over night, making most billionaires on this planet poor in an instant. The world as we know it will break down, but it will recover. The really interesting thing is who will come out on top afterwards? China? The EU? Russia? Hell if I know.
History just keeps repeating itself. After all, capitalism just isn't perfect. Communism isn't either, before you ask. We just don't have an optimal solution for stuff like this, so we just have to roll with it for now. It could work in theory, but there are too many people way too fucking greedy for that. So until we find something better, we will just continue to see empires rise and fall, like it happened always in history. Best thing you as an individual can do is to make sure to stand on the right side. Which isn't that easy all the time.
I do agree however that astronomical high taxes for both companies and stupidly rich individuals are a good thing. If someone earns 10 million a year or more, he should totally pay 99 % taxes. He would still be rich as fuck. But there are major problems with such measures. You can't do it as a single country, because people will just move away to some place with lower taxes. So we would have to come up with some global solution. Yeah, just try to bring together China, the US and russia to a table and on top of that make sure they all agree. Lulz. That aside, money is power. So many of the rich people have a serious influence in politics, which is why there won't be changing too much anytime soon.
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