Analysts at SemiAnalysis ahead of the election feared the worst…“[Hinojosa] would impose a moratorium until legislation is passed that gives communities a voice, protects household utility bills, and ends the tax incentives for data centers."
Few sentences more effectively demonstrate the disconnect between billionaire capitalists and the rest of us.
futurism.com is full of clickbait garbage
Never forgive, never forget.
they need to be punished. we should set up pages to remember which of them collaborated and how. make little shrines when they’re punished.
Tomorrow google maps will show Lake Ontario and Gulf of Mexico and they will put black history month back on their calendar.
They went all in on installing technofeudalism and red and blue states are adopting mass surveillance an AI data centers so it kinda seems like they’re still winning
true. that’s why they need to be killed. t
They need to be arrested for sure
no. no don’t let them hang out with their cop retainers. they need to be killed. they were out openly collaborating fasch. the things they admitted to and lobbied for in public are enough to warrant death. they did much much worse. they need to die. it needs to be a spectacle. their bunkers need to be raided. their bedrooms need to be flashed and filled with chemical weapons as armed men storm in and kill everything that moves.
no trial will survive this amount of money. they worked against the concept of democracy. they worked against the concept of justice. if they aren’t just killed they will be released and it will happen again. they need to be killed.
they gambled and lost and now taxpayers pay their gambling bills
economy über alles
We don’t have to, the government can literally take their money if we collectively decide to. Personally, I think “no billionaires” is a pretty good policy. Once someone’s net worth hits $999M, the government takes all their income above that amount, taxes any gifts they receive at 100% of their value, takes all their capital gains, etc.
I think once you hit that level of wealth laws don’t apply to you, so they shouldn’t protect you either.
Or, just impose a percentage based wealth tax like some of the Scandinavian countries. Simple and efficient.
or just kill them. we don’t get anything from them existing and their existence is always a monument to exploitation. I don’t know how rich it’s possible to get on luck talent andhonest work, but it’s a hell of a lot less than a billion dollars.
Porque no los dos?
Yeah, it should probably be a progressive rate but with the catch being that the rate never stops increasing!
So maybe we start very small – a 1% tax on wealth over $10 million. And that $10 million is also our magic number below which the wealth tax cannot drag you, which will be important in a second.
Then there are a few tiers above that which don’t need to be fancy. Maybe add 1% to the incremental rate per $100 million.
But then at $1 billion, the incremental rate becomes 100%. So if you end up over the limit you essentially get set back to $1 billion, which is further taxed according to our imaginary progressive rate.
I also wonder if it might be a good idea to provide a strong incentive for the individual to disburse their gains to charitable causes rather than the burden of administration always falling to the government. One interesting thing might be to introduce one or two even higher brackets that go above 100%.
Say that at $2 billion the tax on each additional dollar becomes 150%. That means that if you get lazy or just want to hoard wealth short term, you not only get knocked back down to $1 billion but lower than that.
Honestly though, we don’t need that complexity. 100% wealth tax on anything over a billion and the government does extravagant shit to honor the top payers each year and names buildings after them and whatnot.
or we just kill them. they don’t add anything to society. a billionaire is always an exploiter.
One’s realistic (literally already implemented in places), the other’s wishful thinking.
you think they can’t die? it’s been done. it’s an improvement even when they fuck up other shit at the same time.
I think that once you hit $1B, a red laser dot appears on your forehead.
The phone rings: “Decide your fate, or it will be decided for you.”
We can all decide the government should take their money, and politicians can do exactly what capital wants as always.
They gambled and we all lost
as is tradition. Time to convert to new traditions.
blood for blood?
Yeah lost what? 10% of billions of dollars still leaves them with billions of dollars.
Uhhh
Wait for it… I’m sure they’ll realize any second…
Tell that to California, who just decided it didn’t want to tax billionaires by a landslide.
still want yo do something to them.
I thought part of the reason was because it’s a one time thing? But the oligarchs were against it, which is a great reason to be for it, imo.
People still think “the job creators” will leave to other states.
we should make sure they can’t.
Well we passed one of the alternative bills written by the oligarchs that makes it harder to tax personal properties like owning a corporation.
I saw the “trickle down” happening in San Francisco first hand when I got off the Rapid Transit a stop early and emerged in the middle of a cardboard city.
yeah you can kind of smell it in most of the state now. closing bathrooms in a place where it doesn’t rain was not a smart decision.
Ya what a fucking joke. I had hope for that one.
Round up the CEOs and introduce them all to a woodchipper.
Why are you suggesting something so kind?
make them watch as you kill or sterilize the children they polluted the world with. make clear everything they hoped for will be stopped, because they hoped for it. kill their adult loved ones. then get to work on them with the power tools on live stream. show them the numbers. show them how much they’re hated. show them how much everyone wants this.
then someday, when its been hollowed out and empty for years, you let the meat die.
Maybe like, a really dull woodchipper, or one with the blades on backwards or something
This might prove inefficient, but I think it’s worth a few hundred trial attempts, for science
As a treat.
Or make sure to feed them in feet first
They’re gonna need to have much better PRIDE avatar flags next year to win back my confidence.
I know you’re joking but I immediately started thinking that. Is Target going to suddenly have totally legit honest LGBTQ stands again now? I have a feeling we’re going to have whiplash with all of these corps.
They will absolutely flip and pander, and people are going to willfully look the other way, because it’s too difficult not to have a Facebook.
so we just need to exterminate the c suite of Facebook. just kill them all. kill their families. kill any security guys or house slaves who don’t turn on them.
I really don’t understand how so many people are unwilling to be mildly uncomfortable
One of my friends won’t get off Twitter “because that’s where the good memes are”. I’m like ma’am you can live on slightly stale memes.
its not conscious, just a bundle of reflex and reaction. it cannot comprehend how to structure personhood and experience differently.
The memes on lemmy are pretty dank, but I like my cheese a little funky anyway
Damn the peasants.
Target is never getting my money again, unfortunately most people’s memory is as short as a goldfish
That’s rather unfair, actually. I’ve had goldfish and they have much better memories, and better attention spans, than many humans.
Target ain’t doin’ so hot because of people like us boycotting them. There are other factors, but they’re going the way of Sears.
Sears was actively hollowed out by vultures, and before that they were slow to modernize.
Which I find funny because goldfish actually have pretty good memory.
So much of what is wrong with the world in general these days seems to come down to how fucking brainless and easily manipulated people are. Advertising essentially becomes mind control and that’s why the whole economy seems to revolve around who can shove the most ads into people’s faces.
Target will pay for the Facebook ads, and mindless morons will start wandering right back in again, buying the next stupid fucking Stanley Cup or labubu or beanie babies or cabbage patch doll or monchichi…
Fully agree, the last time I went was once this year, and I paid with a gift card I got from before their bending the knee, so it only took assets away from them. Other than that, I will not shop there.
you should. its like the premier hard mode for shoplifting without getting caught!
I put my pronouns back on slack today
Leave no prisoners comrade.
The problem is that they will just shift who they cosy up to and who they bribe with “lobbying”. We all need politicians with the integrity to stand up to that.
When do we get to eat them?
there aren’t actually enough of them for all of us to have a bite of meat, so I propose some kind of soup.
GET IN MAH BELLY
FUCKING VORE THE RICH
They might be into that.
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That looks like the Rocketeer.
Now. Now is when you get to eat them.
They were going to lose anyway. Everyone seems to memoryhole that the Biden administration was on the verge of forcing Google to sell of chrome. They were probably going to enforce more antitrust on big tech.
But of course people memoryholed it. They control what you see and think.
It’s no surprise they comply with Trump’s arbitrary whims. The tech industry didn’t gamble. Trump was their only choice.
They could have chosen to spin off parts of their companies to avoid a forced breakup. They could have chosen to fight back against disinformation during the 2024 election. And they could have chosen to say no to Trump and his mad king decrees. But, they chose to side with the fascists, and that’s now the only decision that matters.
We remember. That didn’t happen, though. Tangerine Palpatine shielded them.
The very first thought in my mind when I woke to Trump 2.0, “There goes Lina Khan, our last best hope.”
She was set to tear these anti-capitalist monopolies down and get democracy back overseeing the economic system. At least Mamdani snatched her up and she’s kicking ass for NYC!
For an industry obsessed with risk models, betting everything on Trump’s popularity was quite a choice. Especially while telling ordinary people to accept higher power bills and endless data centers. Turns out the electorate wasn’t as easy to disrupt as the CEOs hoped.
I think what happened was a FOMO moment in which Elon’s contributions worked really, really well in 2024 so everyone else just jumped on that bandwagon.
The rich believe that the endgame is near so they are very ready to take as much power as they can.
I’ve worked in tech a long time and never have I seen an actual risk model used.
I have had CEOs tell me they don’t like my analysis and there’s gold in them thar bad decision hills, and they don’t care what my numbers say.
I get some schadenfreude watching the disaster unfold, but it usually ends in decent people getting fucked over by management.
They’re venture capitalists they’re obsessed with risk in the sense they believe big risk = big reward and are vain enough to believe they can force several hundred million people to vote against their best interests with some poorly done smoke and mirrors. They forgot most VC ventures are failures because they’re too far up their own asses to see reality anymore
I mean from history we can learn that those with lots of power aren’t more intelligent than most. They get greedy etc
And disconnected from reality
There’s a psychological term for how when we humans acquire fortune and power, we no longer think the rules apply to us. I have a twinge of that just from being a middle-aged white guy. Though poor ATM, there are rules I slide on because privilege. Now imagine being worth billions.
Anyone know the term?
This is the truth. I’m married to a software engineer, and let me tell you, some of his holiday parties were eye-opening for a lowly arts administrator like me. They’re all totally out of touch with how normal people live. Especially if both income earners in a household work in tech.
The opening of Silicon Valley hits so fucking hard.
I don’t know how Mike Judge is consistently so right.
