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Thats what i mean, we theoretically can redistribute the majority of wealth to end all poverty and there would still be enough centralised wealth for the current rich to still live in royal luxury and feel special about.
Of course there would be massive opposition unless we figure what that does to inflation. So I don’t think it'll ever happen but its a point that we absolutely could redistribute wealth without eradicating the upper class.
Instead as an actual solution i think we should count differently and consider all wealth to be a personal cost of a human taking resources from the shared planet. What you consume and possess is what you cost to others. Life is inherently a destructive action.
By measuring the cost and aiming to keep it low we can allow free access to groups (elderly for example) to a share of industrial output.
They don’t need to pay with money, society just needs to count the cost of their transaction. Invite for a welfare talk if there is a problem with overconsumption.
This project is a wip but i imagine that using what is called fountain pen money now could be used to pay classical industry with classical money. The fountain pen money is technically a debt but its the natural debt of human life with no expectation to ever close it.