• halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    They won’t. They won’t pay to completely recreate things like Silicon Valley and Hollywood elsewhere.

    Just like they’re not leaving New York despite saying they would. All the Finance infrastructure is there, they won’t recreate it from scratch elsewhere.

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      8 hours ago

      And even if they did, if the global workforce protested and demand governments tax billionaires extremely heavily, then they’ll have nowhere to go, and will have to pay their fair share of taxes.

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        What if we just leave a few small islands where they dont pay taxes and tie it to the condition of them living there. Then all the billionaires are in one place and become easy targets could potentially get into some accident