• sumguyonline@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    If we took all of the wealth, it would be insane to just give it to the poor without any kind of support. They’ve never had that much money, they haven’t learned to save and are going to spend it it too quickly before they realize what they did. If you’re going to take all the excess wealth, then you have to build infrastructure that will support lives. Homes, grocery stores, farms, mills, mines, schools, colleges, and assign those to educated/trained citizens to support the local communities. Handing money out is a recipe for disaster, it’s how the Republicans/democrats are always setting the poor up for failure on support. Instead of making sure food prices support feeding a family, they make sure the helps comes as stimulus and gets gobbled up by inflation or skyrocketing rent. You don’t just give money, you build infrastructure that supports lower prices and let the poor pay with their own money. Affordable housing, neighborhood gardens, citizen owned farms that are trained to use sustainable practices, and even local power generation using wind, solar, geothermal, or anything else locally that is consistent enough to always provide power(it likely won’t generate enough to replace large energy corps, but it will force them to lower rates as its no longer a monopoly), build things to compete against the free market and prices will drop because the monopoly is broken.