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How are we supposed to pay for our own healthcare if we can't have 1M in assets? You'll make us all slaves, you will.

Mate that's everyone with a house

The easiest way to have equality is to make everyone homeless

$2m+ for San Jose retirees with Prop 13.

$300m houses and every billionaire are absurd and policy failures.

Correct without over correcting/ping-ponging between anarcho libertarianism and communism should be the goal.

A lot of people would lose their homes if $1m usd was the limit.

Dr Evil has entered the room [0]!

"Don't you think we should ask for maybe more than a million dollars"

0: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EJR1H5tf5wE

That is every farmer.

That is almost every small business owner.

That is most people with a house in large cities.

I need to save up $350,000k for my kid's college before he heads off to keep him from having any loans, that means people with two kids who fully fund college for their kids will have $700k in assets just in college savings[1].

Saving for retirement takes 3-4 million.

1 million was a lot of money back when I was a kid in the 90s, now not so much.

[1] College prices are truly obscene.

Then watch the economy tank when the state now owns everything.