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The Casino Of Life
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- What do you think would happen if there was a 100% death tax?
- >> I think that [music] billionaires would become far more giving.
- And I also think it would change the way the game is played.
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Abschnitt 1 What do you think would happen if there was a 100% death tax?
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0:00What do you think would happen if there was a 100% death tax? >> I think that [music] billionaires would become far more giving. And as they approach the end, they know they can't keep it. And I also think it would change the way the game is played. But if you were to imagine life [music] as a poker game, right? And we we everybody, you know, grows up, they become 18 years old, they can go into the casino. You get a chip, and then you sit down at the table, and you're dealt cards, right? There's all the other players around the table. [music] And depending on the cards you're dealt and the skill you have, you you begin to amass chips. The difference between this fictitious [music] casino and the casino of life is that in the real world, you can amass chips, you cash out, you have a big wad of money, you walk out the door. But in the casino [music] of life, when the Grim Reaper taps you and says you it's tells you it's time, you have to get up from the table, but your chips stay on the table, and they push them to the middle to be distributed by [music] everybody else. They continue to get played for, and that's when you realize that it was a fake game with rules that never mattered to begin with.