The only acceptable number, but not only in Europe, everywhere, is “0”.
And if you already don’t know why: a billionaire has way too much money and power, and can influence governments in their favor, creating unsurmountable inequality and subverting the system’s rules. Billionaires are the cause why capitalism is failing (and since no one can stop them now, it will completely fail, and will drag the environment, and human survival, with it).
Yes, but capitalism isn't failing: billionaires ARE capitalism
When I say capitalism is failing is because for it to work, it need rules (offer/demand, competition without monopolies, etc), that these billionaires have eliminated or subverted. They changed the game rules in their favor, and are now so powerful it’s impossible to stop them (non violently, I mean). I honestly think we just entered a dark era of humanity, one in which its existence is in question. And yes, I’m a pessimist, but I try to be optimistic with all my might, but everything I see or read prevents me from being optimistic.
It's quite easy to get rid of billionaires (raise taxes, they will move away), but it's a question whether it is really beneficial for the country.
Easy? Who’s going to raise taxes for them, politicians? The same politicians whose campaigns are financed by these billionaires? Whose reputation can be tainted by the media conglomerates owned by these same billionaires?
There’s no stopping them now, and I have no idea how this is going to end. Things happen too fast now. I fear for the future.
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Your comment could be read as something left in the toilet.
I think the better comparison would be the number of billionaires per capita. Say, per million people. Not that this isn’t a good infographic - keep the overall count. But include the per capita as a frequency-of-occurrence stat.
We need an EU wide 100% wealth tay for any wealth over say 15million€. I am willing to negotiate about the second number.
Tay them all!
So anyone who gets a certain amount of money might as well close all the companies they own?
Or give them to the employees or something. Probably 15M is a too low threshold to enforce that but it would work. It would basically distribute the wealth amongst the people who produce it
Maybe not 15 million, but let's say at 100 million you get a dog park named after you with a statue that says you won at capitalism
What do you mean by wealth?
I didnt knew this Graph but damn..
And this is why you could tax them at 80 or even 90% and they would still have more money than 90% of the rest of the population of earth.
That's a lot of food to eat. Better get started.
Trickle down economics works like a piñata. Once you break it open with blunt force, the stuff you want starts to trickle down!
blood?
blood.
Only 3 in Monaco ? *suspicious*
The other 2000 billionaires have their residence in Panama, their 5 parent companies in Seychelles and 10 others in Cayman Islands, which in turn own 100 subsidiary companies in Ireland and the Bahamas which in turn own 1000 subsidiary companies in the Netherlands and Delaware, which own and pay their butlers, cars, yachts and jets and on paper they themselves barely earn enough monthly themselves to afford 1 public toilet visit.
That’s a lot of guillotines
Even if we had to use a private submarine for each one it would still be worth it
Be environmentally minded please and follow the three R’s. In this case we simply reuse the same guilotine.
It would make more sense to use per capita numbers.
These are eatable numbers
It’s important to remember that while all billionaires are bastards, some are just evil because they take value they neither earned nor need, meanwhile others got rich off being the family whose spat between cousins was WWI and are actively working to undermine left wing and pro equality movements literally today including conspiring to push bigotry towards lgbt people to distract from the class war
Is this based on nationality (defined as: has that nations passport) or billionaires actually living in that country? Because probably many billionaires don't live in their home country or pay taxes there
Portugal's only billionaire might be Abramovich, who gained PT nationality through a very dubious program
didn't know we had so many billionaires!
How the fuck is there so many and can we eat some?
can we eat some
You can try to eat just some, but you'll likely find that once they start to pop, you just can't stop.
Another reason why Portugal is doing it right
Not really, we might have only one billionaire, but all the millionaires are very greedy, as well as the upper clear as a whole. Combining that greed with the sky rocketing cost of living, mainly due to digital nomads and airbnb, we're certainly not an example. Just a collapse waiting to happen.
Having almost no billionaires doesn't mean we have any less wealth inequality than the other countries.
We're just poor af as a whole.
The one billionair in Estonia:
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It's John Travolta in pulp fiction looking around not finding anyone
Surprising that monaco "only" has 3 billionaires.
Ehh, those are just the ones being honest on their taxes.
Pretty sure honest monegasques still dont pay taxes because of the laws there. Stopped there once on a trip to spain and the place gives off a strange ass vibe. Also most monegasques are just normal people(people who actually help society unlike billionaire royals) with normal jobs that were born in a strange place.
Greece is an interesting one. Are they self-made greek billionaires or are they immigrants?
Shipping tycoons I think. Dunno how they got their wealth but Greece was a fascist dictatorship for quite a while so it stands to reason.
Oh if the Kingdom of Portugal could see how far it’s fallen!
One could title this map "number of potentially exceptional net contributors the their country's finances"
That's a very elaborate way to spell "leeches".
I believe that was a way of wanting a near 100% wealth tax for them, to help finance some usefull stuff.
You can’t be a fucking contributor by stealing the value of work done by those in your employ.
One can be made a net contributor by some well adjusted money squeeze 😉
