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I guess the point is there's only 1 of him, and thousands of you (i.e his peons).

So it doesn't matter what he does, it's not statistically significant.

Sidebar: your boss's boss's boss's should be allowed his private jet - he should just pay a fair price for the fuel that reflects the damage he is doing. Like 10x the current price.

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What’s the point of money if everything costs in proportion to how much you have? Then everything costs 1.

I don’t think the argument being made is that the cost should be proportionate to wealth, but proportionate to impact or alternatives.

If flying private incurs 10x or 100x the externality costs of flying coach, it should be priced (taxed really) to reflect that a significant portion of those externality costs are an unnecessary luxury benefit.

"Based on the damage he is doing" is not " based on the money he has"

He is already paying like x50 the public jet ticket price.

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