Roughly speaking, if you murdered and seized their wealth by liquidating their assets at current value, that’s like… 6k donation to half of the US.
That’s assuming 50% of about 340m people with big economic assumptions that won’t hold up, but fun to think about. It’s not a ton of money even then, but it’d probably do more for everyone than under some dragon. Course, we could also just tax them a large amount like we used to, which accomplishes the same thing without the murder.
Roughly speaking, if you murdered and seized their wealth by liquidating their assets at current value, that’s like… 6k donation to half of the US.
That’s assuming 50% of about 340m people with big economic assumptions that won’t hold up, but fun to think about. It’s not a ton of money even then, but it’d probably do more for everyone than under some dragon. Course, we could also just tax them a large amount like we used to, which accomplishes the same thing without the murder.