We’re talking actions limited to something one human could achieve - so not wishes, but could be something amazing or rare like “become president”

  • hperrin@lemmy.world
    511·
    2 months ago

    Honestly? Petition the government to establish a tax function that starts at 0% and approaches 100% the more income you make. So by the time you’re making like 5 million a year, that 5 millionth dollar is taxed at like 99.9%. And make that a fucking constitutional amendment, so rich assholes couldn’t change it. And make it illegal to use your stock as collateral for a loan, or just consider loans as income. And capital gains count. Basically guarantee that the 1% actually pay into the system they take so much from.

    • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 months ago

      I would petition the government to make lobbyism illegal. Maybe this could be the start for cracking down on corruption more successfully…

    • Soulcreator@lemmy.world
      21·
      2 months ago

      One of the big issues I see with that proposal is that at some point, due to inflation an annual income in the ball park of 5 million dollars a year will be considered ‘middle class’. And then the average person will be hit with substantial taxes from a then archaic tax law.

      At that point you’ll need a constitutional amendment to shift the goal post which is nearly impossible to do such. (At least at this moment in time it is.)

      At that point the budget would likely have finally balanced itself out due to the higher tax rates. So of course there will probably be politicians arguing against making this change as it will effectively kill the federal budget, because shifting the tax laws will mean the government will be taking in substantially less.

      It’s a super well intentioned idea at the moment but it’s really a disaster in the making for a future generation.

      • LesserAbe@lemmy.worldOP
        1·
        2 months ago

        You could tie it to a defined benchmark like X multiples of the current cost of living.

        In the Mondragon cooperative (last I knew) compensation per role is defined as a multiple of some common base rate, and the chief executive will never make more than a certain amount over the lowest paid employee.

      • cabbage@piefed.social
        11·
        2 months ago

        Progressive tax is normal in most functional countries, it’s not rocket science.

        Basically you define X as a base sum that needs to be controlled for inflation. Minimum wage can be 2X, whereas 100% taxation might be reached at an income of 300X. In this scenario, nobody could earn more than 150 times minimum wage, and manipulating the calculation of X to make the rich richer would also benefit everyone else.

        A bigger challenge is that billionaire scum tend not to have income, only loans, so they don’t pay tax at all. But that’s also easily fixed if there’s political will.

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
    35·
    2 months ago

    I’m about to participate in a medical study. Hopefully the treatment is so successful that it cures me and everyone else suffering the same and similar conditions. And hopefully I’m not part of the control group.

  • edric
    22·
    2 months ago

    Win the lottery. Money can’t buy happiness, but it sure can solve a lot of problems and make life easier and more comfortable.

    • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      2 months ago

      Money can buy happiness if it is so much money that you don’t ever have to work to earn money again. Lower than that, difficult; if I won (say) 20000 euros I wouldn’t really know what to do with them because I would still have to work.

  • olmec
    20·
    2 months ago

    I would do the same thing I do with rare, single use items in video games (Think the Master Ball). I would save it indefinitely in case there is a time that I really need it in the future. I would die having never used it.

    • toiletobserver
      91·
      2 months ago

      Congratulations! You win one million, but only 400k after tax. Your relatives and friends won’t stop sounding you now.

      • FesterEnglish
        91·
        2 months ago

        You can set up a trust and have a lawyer accept it to keep you anonymous, even in public winner states. Obviously you buy the ticket when it’s at 1 billion+. Now you invest it after taxes and live off 20 mill+ yearly yield.

        You start a hands off small business to launder your own legal money. This is how you explain to your family that you were able to build a small modest home at least an hour away - just far enough to be inconvenient but not impossible for family to visit. Your real home is a custom built stone castle just over the hill in your back yard. You build a tunnel connecting them in case family drops in unannounced.

        Or just do the first part and fake your own death. Depends on your relationship with family and friends.

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
    13·
    2 months ago

    Become governor and Make Florida Freaky Again. Unwind the gerrymandering. Install my cabinet of freaky progressive politicians who want the state to have clean beaches, public transportation and less need to drive. More tax money to clean up our mess, and stop fighting people who just want to be themselves. Expand Medicare. Just work to bring balance to the force in general.

  • gloriousspearfish@feddit.dk
    13·
    2 months ago

    Raise healthy, emphatic and intelligent kids.

    If I manage that, everything else can go to hell, and I would still be happy and content in life.

    • waz@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 months ago

      There are a select couple I would like to inconvenience, but it is highly unlikely they will care about my death at all.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    131·
    2 months ago

    Well I’ve never done a single thing toward this effort, but when I was a kid I wanted to have a unit of measure named after me. Like James Watt, Alessandro Volta, or Ted Megabyte.

    • TastehWaffleZ@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      Have you looked into donation chains? Often a ton of people who are willing to donate to somebody but can’t will queue up and wait until a compatible match enters the queue and potentially set off a chain reaction of donations.

      • SGG@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        It’s him unfortunately. He started feeling unwell 3 weeks ago, had a heart attack like event last week, turns out undetected terminal liver cancer, too unwell for any treatment. It sucks, but every day he has left is a gift.