I’ll take “why is my codebase full of technical debt” for 500, Alex.

Cream of the crop

Rich and thick

As does bumming a fag

OK. What exactly did you want us to do with your warning? It’s not like we got a vote…

Of the wealth this hypothetical tax would apply to. If you want to criticize the original premise you’re replying to the wrong person.

Because, as I said, if they instead tax 98% of their wealth then all the billionaires will move there and they’ll get 98% of a lot more while everyone else gets 99% of nothing. Until a country works out they could get 97% of all that wealth to themselves and so on and so forth until you get down to the sort of tax levels we actually see. It’s just basic game theory in the end.

They’re not going to go to Haiti though, they’re going to go to Monaco or Switzerland or Ireland or The Netherlands. That’s my point, for this to work all of the “developed” nations need to agree despite having a massive financial incentive not to.

I mean, the issue is getting all nations to agree to that and making any agreement binding because otherwise the nation that decides to tax them at 98% gets all of the tax revenue…

That’s what happens when physics teachers get a cat.

Yeah, just think of all those famously unprejudiced travelers of history like Christopher Columbus, Cecil Rhodes or Robert Clive…