With wealth inequality and billionaire control over American society growing ever more obscene, it’s well past time to implement a maximum wage limit.

  • GuyLivingHere@lemmy.ca
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    11 hours ago

    I don’t think it is functionally any different; just applied to a different asset being sold. Most capital gains are from property sales, aren’t they?

    • Soleos@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      Depends on what class you are, which I think a lot of comments in this thread understandably seem to assume from a middle class perspective, even assuming “wage” as the main source of wealth.

      Real estate is one major source of capital gains, but for a lot of the 1% and investors, capital gains is primarily from financial instruments, i.e. stocks, bonds, etc.