I really like the work you put into these things. Thank you. I just wish you could see the sales tax concept differently. When it is combined with UBI and functional generosity to natural systems, then the property ownership/capitalism concept becomes moot: instead of people competing to get paid, they are paid to cooperate in service of the future of their places, and discouraged from buying their lives from oiligarchs.
Sure, in the immediate future, confiscating the ridiculous wealth is a good idea, but without feedback on consumption (sales taxes), people will just keep trying to consume themselves into extinction.
High prices, income disparity, conflict and corruption are all the result of competitive consumptionism without a systemic/civilized sense of usefulness to our planet.
We can't keep crying, "FAIRNESS!!" without an ultimate sense of what people are good for to their place, themselves and each other.
Blind competition over ideologies of religion and anthropocentrism will never be overcome as long as we allow "pursuit of selfish happiness"(consumption) to be more important than a net future usefulness (generosity).
It's all kinda moot now, anyway. The magnitude of the corruption of sensibility by fossil fuel money and government debt is so far beyond this planet's resources that there is really no point to debate any political plans at all.
Starvation, flooding, war and other catastrophes will take away the last vestiges of stability for the next century or so. People don't realize that everything around us (and about 7 billion people) only exists because of the infrastructures ignoring reality. Modern civilized life is inside a laboratory plastic sheet environment held up by massive fossil fuel flows and blind adherence to not questioning them.
Once any part of it is pierced, the whole thing blows up as logistics fail and each level of stability (electricity, transport, food, education, water) slides into the planet-sized landfill that is our species' future legacy.
All we're debating now is the timing.
