Material conditions triumph over idealist values. See how long your values and beliefs in the ethereal last in the face of the concrete reality of your kids crying to you that they're hungry and you don't have the money to feed them. How strong is the bedrock of your conspiracy when the landlord is beating on your walls with a letter of eviction?
The economically secure few who's fat affords them the time to stave off their proletarianization grow fewer and fewer, and the number of masses crushed under the capitalist boot continues to grow. It is only through addressing their material needs can crises be overcome.
Fun “SocDem” style mechanism since this is a hypothetical anyway:
you could use this as a way to fine anyone above a certain income bracket (say $200k) who was still unvaccinated. Start off small, but then rapidly compound the rate you’re seizing until it ends with them at the $200k benchmark.
Publicly list the amount being seized and run huge propaganda campaigns showing it being diverted into covering the healthcare costs of everyone with covid. Frame the people who you took the funds from as being hoarders who wanted everyone being helped to suffer.
This is stupid and wonky since you at this point would have already seized their wealth, but would be hilarious to watch happen.
Edit: If I remember right; I’ve read some numbers varying the amount that everyone could equally have in the world as annual income as between $75k-$200k.
Material conditions triumph over idealist values. See how long your values and beliefs in the ethereal last in the face of the concrete reality of your kids crying to you that they're hungry and you don't have the money to feed them. How strong is the bedrock of your conspiracy when the landlord is beating on your walls with a letter of eviction?
The economically secure few who's fat affords them the time to stave off their proletarianization grow fewer and fewer, and the number of masses crushed under the capitalist boot continues to grow. It is only through addressing their material needs can crises be overcome.
Fun “SocDem” style mechanism since this is a hypothetical anyway:
you could use this as a way to fine anyone above a certain income bracket (say $200k) who was still unvaccinated. Start off small, but then rapidly compound the rate you’re seizing until it ends with them at the $200k benchmark.
Publicly list the amount being seized and run huge propaganda campaigns showing it being diverted into covering the healthcare costs of everyone with covid. Frame the people who you took the funds from as being hoarders who wanted everyone being helped to suffer.
This is stupid and wonky since you at this point would have already seized their wealth, but would be hilarious to watch happen.
Edit: If I remember right; I’ve read some numbers varying the amount that everyone could equally have in the world as annual income as between $75k-$200k.