Unpopular Opinion

When I hoard it's a mental illness.

When billionaire hoards he's just successful.

Bullshit

That's actually a fantastic way to word what I've been thinking about for years. Greed crimes.

I don't know where you're from, but as an American, I'd rally for that to be an amendment.

Unpopular opinion?

Bro if you run on that I'll campaign for you.

I’d argue greed is a hate crime. A crime against humanity too.

I think this will be a pretty popular opinion here, but in society at large it’s definitely unpopular.

Some historical perspective as it relates to greed:

During some of the United States’ most prosperous times, the marginal income tax rates were higher (topping out around 90%!) and executive compensation was no more than ~20x the average worker pay.

Now, marginal tax rates and capital gains rates are so low, the wealthy often pay the lowest effective rates (sometimes less than 10%). And executive pay is simply off the charts at 300x, 500x, even 700x median pay.

https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-compensation-2018/

The problem is greed and its manifestation as tax and corporate policy. Basic tax reform and implementing new corporate regulations can and would fix many issues plaguing this country.

Those in poverty would be lifted out by higher wages and adequate social safety nets. The growth of a thriving middle class creates a premier labor force, allows people to innovate and start new businesses, and creates additional private support networks that reduces stress on government programs.

It even helps the elite by letting them live in a prosperous country where they don’t have to step over people dying in the streets to go to their entertainment spots. Theft and crimes of desperation decrease as stability increases. Labor is more educated and healthy. They don’t have to drive on roads with defunct bridges. On and on.

We are all in this together. It’s time to act like it. We’ve done it before and we can do it again.

they're bothsupposedly "deadly sins"; i'm just not sure if it isn't people other than the sinners who get the death part of the deal.

Why not. We already have lust crimes too

Well, agreed, but you can't reform greed out of capitalism.

Greed has often been described as equally evil to hate. As Robert Frost put it:

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I’ve tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice.

As much as it is necessary, greed is something very abstract and extremely difficult to prove in courts.