The leading French economist Gabriel Zucman is urging European governments to inflict financial pain on American billionaires in response to US President Donald Trump’s effort to seize control of Greenland, a mineral-rich island that some of Trump’s rich campaign donors see as a potentially massive profit opportunity.
“Access to the European market—by billionaires and the companies they own—should be made conditional on paying a wealth tax: in effect, a tariff for oligarchs. If Elon Musk, for example, wants to keep selling Teslas in Europe, he should have to pay it. If he refuses, Tesla would lose access to the European market.”
I think you don’t have the same definition of poor as I do in this context. Poor for me means not a billionaire oligarch.
According to lemmy, anyone with a retirement fund and able to go on even one vacation a year, is not working class… anyone who owns their home, and basically has a net worth over $1M, is not working class…
This kind of mentality completely works against the class consciousness we need to be building…
Hell, we need to be getting people with $5M net worth on board with us (i’m just throwing arbitrary number out). The target shouldnt be the 1% anymore… it’s the 0.1%