• Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
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    7 hours ago

    Public services don’t need to be profitable to be sustainable. You just need to tax base to be okay with it.

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      6 hours ago

      Yeah, I don’t want them to be profitable, but sustainable.

      Even if taxpayers are paying for it, you can’t rely on the (struggling) general population to lift people out of homelessness. Let the rich carry that burden. They are the ones who’ve hoarded money that should have gone to everyone else.

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        21 minutes ago

        hoarded money that should have gone to everyone else

        That’s not how money works?

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          15 minutes ago

          Yes, because hoarding billions means it was stolen from someone else. Either through low wages, low taxes, loopholes, or unethical business practices.

          Nobody should ever be able to accumulate billions of dollars. We have people who will be trillionaires in our lifetime. Unjustifiable.

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            12 minutes ago

            means it was stolen from someone else

            No it isn’t? Usually it just means owning stock in a company, that others want to buy.