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The thing is with something like a yacht in your example, that producing one creates a lot of work. Not saying that we shouldn't make it impossibile, just maybe make it so you can't use it as a tax write off. I know that's what we did in NL.
Edit: people working in a business making yachts wouldn't want a rule that would disallow people to own yachts since they would be out of a job and generally people vote for their own interests first.
Sure but if you re-allocating all of the resources that went into the yacht, that includes labor, the jobs. I haven't suggested doing less stuff, I've suggested doing the same amount of stuff, but distributing it equitably.
Yeah that is fair, but I am not sure that it is really a resource issue. World wide we produce enough food, shelter, medicine etc. That's also where social security and things like the EU are for. There are just a bunch of priks who ruin it for everybody else and at the same time there are a lot of people who choice to buy from Amazon instead of something locally.
There is also the issue that people like to work on building a yacht, I am pretty sure.
Yeah, there's enough stuff to go around, but some people are hoarding it, in general.
I'm sure some people like building yachts, and luxury cars, extravagant jewelry, etc., but those industries are so tiny compared to the ones that serve regular people.
Whatever might be lost in terms of cool jobs making fancy things could be made up for so many times over, in an equitable society, for example by allowing people to work less hours and afford the same standard of living, making more free time for hobbies and other fulfilling activities.