Last night (Tuesday), if you watched ZDF (public German TV, Channel 2) at 8:15 PM....you got 'The Secret World of the Super Rich - The Billion Dollar Game'.
It was a 43-minute documentary piece that revolved around the idea of the wrongs committed by Germany's 237 billionaires.
You can view it here.
I dosed up on about 20 minutes of it. The jest, I'd say....you've got some evil German billionaires, and the only way to fix this....is to tax the hell out of them.
I'm not really pro-rich or anti-rich....I do realize that if you have a service or product, and it's successful....you make money. The government taxes the product/service (at the shop, on the truck, and the employees at the store/factory). The system works as designed....except at the end....there's the executive or owner, who holds the end result of the effort.
Yeah, he or she flies around on a private jet....lives in a fairly nice mansion....drinks fine wine daily....wears 3,000 Euro suits made in Italy, and seems to get haircuts on a regular basis. He doesn't fake his way to the status....he appears to have a 18-hour work-day.
If you tried to tax the billionaires more? They'd quietly exit the country, and ensure the headquarters for the operation was not in Germany. I wouldn't call it punishment....it's just the reality of the world we live in.
Course, with the right effort, we could rid Germany of the 237 billionaires, and feel good about it in the end.
The odds that a fair amount of Germans watched the documentary piece? Well...there was competition: 'Farmer Seeks Wife', 'Navy CIS', 'Big Bang', 'Body Guard', some welfare reality series, and a 2020 Tatort murder episode. Just guessing that 98-percent of Germans watched something else. Or you could have done the right thing....viewing Netflix streaming video.
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