That’s the sort of option already being offered by the wider programme of the neoliberal global consensus. What I don’t understand is why much of the ownership class doesn’t grasp that letting inequality trends continue without intervention ultimately hurts them*, too. “I love spending my hard-earned money on bodyguards” is something no sane wealthy person said, ever.
I do – those in power on the economic left and right in the U.S. are already discussing this formerly unthinkable concept because they’ve painted themselves into a corner. And because conservatives will have to buy in for it to work, this is what I envision it will look like.
[* partial disclosure: us]
