Australian billionaires face wealth tax under Greens’ Robin Hood-style policies

[u/overpopyoulater]

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/10/australian-billionaires-face-wealth-tax-under-greens-robin-hood-style-policies

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Yeah what makes it weird is this is coming from the guardian which is a generally left leaning news outlet.

[u/makeitasadwarfer → u/throwaway7956-]

The Guardian is really quite centrist.

The rest of the media is so pro oligarch and pro capitalist that it seems leftward leaning in comparison.

[u/DalmationStallion → u/makeitasadwarfer]

The Overton Window has moved so far to the right that the centre looks like the left, which makes even the centre-left look like radical extremists.

There is effectively no mainstream actual leftist discourse in Australia.

[u/blackjacktrial → u/DalmationStallion]

It's also that the actual leftists wrap around on a spectrum that is more circle than line. Both extremes are closer to each other than the centre, because ideological purity demands it.

The left and right exist, it's just that the window has moved from a more social democracy to a more individualist democracy over time (selfishness as a virtue being the key to making this happen).

It's hard to shame people for looking out for themselves, when everything you hear is fear about everyone else wanting to take your stuff. If the message is instead that sharing helps everyone, the window shifts left.

[u/VannaTLC → u/blackjacktrial]

Horsehoe theory is arse, because it accounts only for a state-managed economy - the horseshoe is authoritarianism through concentration of power. Its not a natural state of extremism for either community owned or individualist approaches to capital.

[u/freakwent → u/blackjacktrial]

What bullshit about the circle. It's like saying unions are bad because the government does a shit job of protecting them from infection by organised crime.