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most of crypto/segments of wallstreet are a giant scam using mathematics to make money, any pr is good for them. It is like that wall street movie quote "You got ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth. I create nothing. I own. We make the rules, pal."



Nothing mathematical about it.

It's Enron accounting all the way down. Except in Enron's case the accounting was actually creatively done to dodge regulators. These guys didn't even have that to worry about.


> "You got ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth. I create nothing. I own. We make the rules, pal.

Might make sense to tax the people doing the work less and the people owning stuff more. Should be a homerun policy in any democracy.


Which is why we have a progressive tax schedule. It didn’t work, or you wouldn’t be here complaining.


Surely he's saying the capital gains tax rate should be higher than the W-2 tax rate. That's definitely not the case in the US.




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