Chuck FeeneyOk - so name a billionaire that contributes more to this world than he / she takes.
The James Bond of Philanthropy
Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
Chuck FeeneyOk - so name a billionaire that contributes more to this world than he / she takes.
The great FK is not a troll. I may be a liar, a pig, an idiot, a troll, but I am NOT a pornstar.Lol.
You're such a troll.
Out of interest, would you categorise assisting with a local sport team - playing, coaching, volunteering, umpiring - as assistance of the community?Mate I'm not saying that all their free time needs to be philanthropic. But if someone isn't willing to give up a few hours on one Sunday a month to help out others/the environment/the community, I'm not really interested in hearing them wax and wane about how billionaires should help their common man.
I know there are some people that can't even afford that small amount of time, but they're definitely in the extreme minority.
For kids as an unpaid role? Absolutely (assuming that they're teaching kids good values, being a positive role model etc).Out of interest, would you categorise assisting with a local sport team - playing, coaching, volunteering, umpiring - as assistance of the community?
No one going to reply?What a hilarious pathetic conversation. The semantics are ridiculous. You are losing the meaning of the words. How about if I have 999 million dollars? Am I absolved? How about I won a billion dollar lottery? does that make me more evil than a multi-millionaire sex trafficker? There are two classes, Capitalist and Worker. That is the distinction. Not how many numbers someone has.
I’ll take a shot. I don’t think anyone should have their assets/cash seized from them. If you have a billion in cash or stock, good for you.No one going to reply?
I’ll take a shot. I don’t think anyone should have their assets/cash seized from them. If you have a billion in cash or stock, good for you.
If I developed an app and got offered a billion in stock/cash, I’d take the deal.
But our tax system isn’t progressive enough in my opinion. If I was making 30 million a year from a billion net worth portfolio, and the marginal tax rate was 90% for every dollar over 3 million in income, you wouldn’t see me complaining.
Back when the US had this rate, from the 40s through to the early 60s, they had a golden age in economic growth and innovation. I don’t think the richest American companies would move overseas and remove themselves from the third biggest labour market in the world and the biggest consumer market in the world.
Genuine question here because I have no idea which policies would produce the best outcomes in modern times.But our tax system isn’t progressive enough in my opinion. If I was making 30 million a year from a billion net worth portfolio, and the marginal tax rate was 90% for every dollar over 3 million in income, you wouldn’t see me complaining.
Back when the US had this rate, from the 40s through to the early 60s, they had a golden age in economic growth and innovation. I don’t think the richest American companies would move overseas and remove themselves from the third biggest labour market in the world and the biggest consumer market in the world.
Yeah, not the first time I've seen that point raised and I think it has merit.Genuine question here because I have no idea which policies would produce the best outcomes in modern times.
Is it not possible that these high tax rates became untenable due to globalisation? Entrepreneurs realised that country X has lower taxes, country Y has cheaper labour etc, and they arranged their companies accordingly? Hence the first world countries have all but lost their manufacturing industries and others.
In an ideal world I would love to see 90% tax on income greater than $3M. In the real world I feel it could possibly make inequality even worse. Something needs to change, but I'm not sure it's as black and white as it seems.
No, they didn’t. The biggest rate of growth and innovation for the us was either the Gilded Age or the last 20 years.Back when the US had this rate, from the 40s through to the early 60s, they had a golden age in economic growth and innovation. I don’t think the richest American companies would move overseas and remove themselves from the third biggest labour market in the world and the biggest consumer market in the world.
Why would you make something up when you can so easily fact check it with a simple google search?No, they didn’t. The biggest rate of growth and innovation for the us was either the Gilded Age or the last 20 years.
Talking about innovation. The transition from horse and carriage and candlelight to cars and electricity will likely never be beaten. Only the internet age (maybe) can beat it.Why would you make something up when you can so easily fact check it with a simple google search?
View attachment 1667172
United States real GDP growth rate 1930-2022 | Statista
The Covid-19 pandemic saw growth fall by 2.2 percent, compared with an increase of 2.5 percent the year before.www.statista.com
I think you're just talking out of your ass and shifting the goalposts. In 1940 you couldn't fly non-stop across the ocean. By the end of the 1960's man had walked on the moon.Talking about innovation. The transition from horse and carriage and candlelight to cars and electricity will likely never be beaten. Only the internet age (maybe) can beat it.
US growth between 40-60 is due to war effort and the fact Europe destroyed its manufacturing capacity. There was literally only one game in town then, America.
Nah, horse to car and fire to electricity much bigger. You couldn’t fly at all in 1900 and by 1910 you could.I think you're just talking out of your ass and shifting the goalposts. In 1940 you couldn't fly non-stop across the ocean. By the end of the 1960's man had walked on the moon.
See, here's the thing:Nah, horse to car and fire to electricity much bigger. You couldn’t fly at all in 1900 and by 1910 you could.
no, because the transformation and shrinking of distances motorised private transport enabled was of a larger impact than rockets. Containerised shipping had a bigger impact than rockets.See, here's the thing:
Horses and horse drawn transport existed for years, literal centuries, prior to the car as did things steam piston engines and chain/sprocket systems. So 1870 to 1900 is a completely arbitrary period to talk about how once there were horse and carts but now there are cars, also incorrect because lots of key components & concepts underpinning the first cars existed before 1870. A more accurate thing to say is, in 1870 there were steam lorries but now there are combustion powered cars.
Controllable rockets did not exist before 1940, neither did fully electric computers. 1940 to 1969 perfectly illustrates how aerospace and rocketry developed in that period.
Clive Palmer lifted his net worth from $19.55b to the very precise $23.66b this year, purely on the back of Chinese royalties from the Cape Preston iron ore operation.
One of Australia's richest men has apologised after he said that unemployment should jump to remind arrogant workers of their place.
"We need to see pain in the economy," Tim Gurner had said.
He has previously made headlines by suggesting young people cannot afford homes because they spend too much on avocado toast.
He proposed the country's current unemployment rate of 3.7% should rise by 40-50% to reduce "arrogance in the employment market". That would see more than 200,000 people lose their jobs.
"There's been a systematic change where employees feel the employer is extremely lucky to have them," Mr Gurner said.
"We need to remind people they work for the employer, not the other way around."
there have been three industrial revolutions and the 40-60s didnt make it. High growth during this period was driven by all the men returning from war and the capital rebuild effort in Europe.I think you're just talking out of your ass and shifting the goalposts. In 1940 you couldn't fly non-stop across the ocean. By the end of the 1960's man had walked on the moon.