The thing that is so frustrating about the current global situation is that it's not that we don't have enough resources for everyone — we have more money, food, and energy than we collectively need — but that it is being hoarded by a few. Everyone could lead healthier, safer, better educated lives if we spread the wealth around to all.
So I have an idea that I genuinely think we should implement, and it is a Billionaires Draft. Once every so often, when we need money for our large, necessary expenses like healthcare, housing, food, education, transportation, etc, we draft randomly from a pool of only billionaires and they need to pay 50% of their net worth. Even if their net worth is all tied up in stocks and shares and real estate, doesn't matter. Sell what you have to and cough up the amount. We draw as many names as we need to fulfill all our funding requirements. And then next year, we do it again.
If we can have a draft like the one we ACTUALLY DO, and randomly select people who we expect to make the “ultimate sacrifice” and “lay down their lives for the greater good”, then SURELY it makes more sense to ask SOME billionaires to “sacrifice” SOME of their wealth for the greater good, no?