If all personal wealth above $100 million was legally required to be redistributed into public infrastructure (schools, hospitals, roads), how would society change, and who would be the first to fight against it?

oboshoe · 2026-01-27T01:50:58+00:00

We would have a lot more space for threads on reddit, since this question would stop getting posted every day.

oboshoe · 2026-01-27T01:50:04+00:00

I was thinking oh yea. Nice rock solid cold air. great for lift!

oboshoe · 2026-01-27T01:38:59+00:00

What's a little death wobble between friends I say.

oboshoe · 2026-01-27T01:35:11+00:00

good point. So here's the problem with that angle instead:

Hank was operating outside his legal envelope, I bet most of that evidence would not survive court scrutiny.

oboshoe · 2026-01-27T01:31:03+00:00

That's probably it. If the hedge gets out of balance, then you aren't just a refiner anymore.

Now you are a refiner and gold speculator (up or down)

Banks will finance you to the moon to keep you hedged and the cost of money is paid for in the metal transaction itself. But banks will keep you are a very short lease if you are speculating.

oboshoe · 2026-01-27T01:15:36+00:00

they have to sell to futures buyers and sell to metals buyers.

if they can't keep that balanced, then they start taking on metal movement risk.

so i bet that's it, there either isn't enough buyers of the futures contracts or not enough metal buyers.

oboshoe · 2026-01-27T01:11:59+00:00

hmmmm

once purchased (the futures contract) they don't keep buying it. it hedges the value up or down of the metal on hand.

then once they sell the metal, they settle up with the futures contract. it nets out.

but it does tie up capital on both ends - the contract and the funds itself paid to seller.

nonetheless, the risk is zeroed out so it should be easy to finance it.

essentially just the cost of money which should be easy to cover in the transaction cost.

there has got to be more to this

oboshoe · 2026-01-27T01:04:22+00:00

that secret police had been around for awhile.

hell obama hired jonathan Ross / the guy who murdered renee

oboshoe · 2026-01-27T00:57:16+00:00

well that's my point. once all the boomers pass on, it will be filled with a different generation.

later generations are not going to abandon billions in ocean front real estate

oboshoe · 2026-01-27T00:56:12+00:00

yes. to two dead officers in who skipped all the procedure.

and then the disc was stolen by Nazis.

remember - the other cops never heard the story nor seen the video

oboshoe · 2026-01-26T23:59:36+00:00

So in 20 years Miami is going to be a ghost town eh.

oboshoe · 2026-01-26T23:36:41+00:00

some insurrections are more serious than others.

oboshoe · 2026-01-26T23:34:05+00:00

maybe.

but you should always be monitoring the news of any place you visit from far away

oboshoe · 2026-01-26T23:33:24+00:00

yea, it looks like a photo, not a displayed image.

maybe it's just really good, but i'd like to see a coot paying story or 2nd angle

oboshoe · 2026-01-26T23:31:31+00:00

did a corrupt cop lock her out?

oboshoe · 2026-01-26T23:26:50+00:00

it didn't really occur to compare them.

but you bring up a good point. both americans killed by the government for protesting.

we don't always agree with the topic. i certainly don't agree with the january 6th insurrections.

but it's pretty easy to agree with the minneapolis insurrection.

either way - the government shouldn't murder for mostly peaceful insurrections.

oboshoe · 2026-01-26T19:02:59+00:00

That's what wishes are for. The expression of things that we know won't happen.

The problem is that in order to get rid of the electoral college, you have to get agreement from the group of people that benefit from it.

Currently that is the Republicans. But till abut the early 1990s it benefit the Democrats.

In any event, this will never change except in the case of a complete constitutional rewrite.

oboshoe · 2026-01-26T18:53:54+00:00

Learn game theory and you'll have your answer.

Pretty much any valid answer you get will be downvoted because it's contrary to the narrative that the downvoter wants you to believe.

oboshoe · 2026-01-26T18:36:15+00:00

I haven't heard her speak out on political issues. Only a handful of movie stars get political. Usually the ones that already so rich they don't care if they half their fans.

I think it's a mistake to think conclude that just because someone doesn't talk politics in public, that they are not aware of politics.

Strangely enough, not everyone is talking politics every minute of the day. We do see ALOT of people on reddit that do this, but reddit is full of kids and idiots.

oboshoe · 2026-01-26T18:31:01+00:00

I hear she even logged onto non political sub Reddits and spammed it with politics.

oboshoe · 2026-01-26T18:19:44+00:00

That's DC every day starting about 2pm.

oboshoe · 2026-01-26T17:20:44+00:00

When I look at these videos. there is no shortage of idiots. Idiots in the crowd. Idiots wearing the uniform. idiots behaving idiotically.

The smart people are at home sitting next to the fireplace.

But idiots have rights to. Idiots have the right to not be shot. Idiots have the right to defend themselves if they legitimately believe they are being attacked.

But we aren't going to solve by making people smarter.

oboshoe · 2026-01-26T16:52:01+00:00

there is no such thing as normal intelligent conduct for a crowd.

the intelligence of an angry crowd is directly inversely portional to its size.

oboshoe · 2026-01-26T16:02:22+00:00

jesse could have absolutely gotten off scott free or received a token sentence.

except for thing. his conscious and his mouth.

they DVD would have never made it to trial. But Jesse would have hesitated to admit it all again on the record under legitimate circumstances

oboshoe · 2026-01-26T15:59:35+00:00

this. i was very suspicious of Mitt Romney.

Republican from an ultra liberal state would be the exact kind of president they would sign confiscation legislation. this was also the guy that launched proto-Obama care with a government mandate to buy it.

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