Do not let perfect get in the way of good.

Your reasoning here is irrational, and frequently repeated by many.

"They will find another way, why even try! Gosh!"

Okay, then we'll block that way, and the next, and the next, and the next.

This is iterative development and is how the whole world works. I cannot grasp why so many people have this defeatist attitude toward resolving problems.

Comments like these are not only unhelpful, they hurt progress moving forward. Do you also apply this logic to domestic abusers (wouldn't wife beaters just beat places you can't see or use sexual assault? ), or speeders (won't people just speed when no law enforcement are around?), or regular joe tax evaders? I'm going to assume not. It would be absurd to just thow up our hands and say "you know what? We're never going to stop pedophilia, so lets put no laws or regulations in place to punish pedophiles."

I'm not going to claim that the original commenter's solution is perfect or even very effective, but if we do nothing (and comments like yours are encouraging doing nothing) then the percieved problem will gwt worse. We reward the bad behavior and the bad behavior continues and gets worse. Something needs to be done whether it's perfect or not. If you've ever created anything, especially something to be used or enjoyed by others, you know your first draft of it is shit. There are so many things that you couldn't see until you put the work into it or release it to others and that's okay. You learn, you revise, you plug the holes, you scrap and implement something new, you continue the process. The "rule of thumb" didn't stop abuse, but it was a step. We still haven't stopped abuse, but a lot of us keep plugging along, trying to stop it in our own ways (at individual, local, national, and international levels).

If you do care about this and want to contribute, but don't like the presented solution, offer up your own or maybe point to resources of those advancing a cause from a different angle. If you're here to shit on ideas because you don't care or are trolling and want to actively hinder discussion, you can fuck right off. If you are trolling I'm okay with the offchance the overall message is recieved by someone else who needs it.

Although you're right, that sounds like an excuse to not do anything.

We really need to rethink how ownership itself works. All assets should be in a public registry, and no country's laws should recognize any claim of ownership not backed by the registry. For the sake of privacy, I'd make an exception for up to like $1 million in personal assets owned by an individual, but never for business assets and never for ownership of a company or shares of a company.

I mean, the truth is that we've never found a way to prevent some people from hoarding huge amounts of wealth. Probably not a great sign for the future of our species.

Maybe but we were doing better at it before Reagan came along.

But it isn't a silver bullet. If we want to deal with the root of today's problems we need to focus on a number of solutions around anti-trust, pro-labor, wealth tax, lobbying, campaign finance, etc.