Consumers will pay, and not only the direct ones but all people through inflated prices same as with oil taxes.
The funny part is those marxists already know how much they will steal - 20bn and 'scheme' is a new word for theft.
What exactly makes 'rich people's money' a finite resource? Where do you think their money comes from? If you look at the average billionaire, their wealth trends up even if they're giving big chunks of it away - Bill Gates is richer now than he was when he started giving away huge piles of his money, because for a rich person wealth is (unless you're literally lighting it on fire) not trivially exhaustible.
Many countries previously have had high tax rates on the rich (upwards of 50%) and those rich people still managed to avoid being poor.
It would be another matter if their plan was proposing to cut off rich people's income - but their plan doesn't even touch rich people, it is funded by corporations. Even if you were to institute a 2% wealth tax to fund public internet, the rich would still stay very, very rich because it's possible to keep earning money off your remaining wealth through investments and other means.
Presumably that money goes back into the pockets of everyday people who then spend it in an ever revolving churn of money which keeps capitalism working.
If your economy is held up by rich people and rich people alone, your economy probably sucks.
Seconded. Eve's server architecture is amazing given the original constraints of the network... they managed to find a way to make a single worldwide server work and to make the game treat everyone fairly no matter what their ping was.
The architecture used has limitations (the biggest one is that fps-style real time isn't really possible) but it's aged very well.
It's similarly capped in the UK. Upper middle class always knows how to protect their wages, only programmers want voluntarily more people competing for their wages. It's so welcoming field. Also it costs tons, can't compare it with America but compared to other fields. Hence they import doctors when there are shortages.
There have been “shortages” of doctors and nurses forever, the usual newspapers were panicking about it in the 80s (source: was there, read them). Probably someone will be along in a minute to say they remember it from the 60s too!
Fun fact: the doctors were the biggest obstacle to the foundation of the NHS and they disappear into private practice at the first opportunity.
That's a lot of talk. How many people in the UK don't have access to medical care due to, say shortages vs how many in the US die every year b/c they cannot afford care?
It's such a stupid trope in any case.