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The solution is to tax the shit out of rich people and hand it over to the rest of society. I mean the maths has been done: whatever the rich give out in charity is always less than what they would pay in taxes. The whole effective altruism thing is an ego trip experience. Wow I get my name on a hospital wing!

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Taxation creates its own set of perverse incentives, I suggest we use a money pit: https://www.theonion.com/in-the-know-should-the-government-s...

It's worse than that; wealth aside it seems like every time people come together they can't seem to reliably reform or reject the bad actors.

That said, systems for routinely rotating the top of the hierarchy (such as taxation or term limits) are helpful to be sure.

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