The Dutch authorities are also very wary about declaring the US an unsafe country and provoking Trump, said Shrover. They think: ‘How will it look? How will the Americans respond to that? We can’t do this to our most important ally, saying that they don’t have a functioning democracy.’”
Important? Very
Ally? At this point, it’s our enemy
No, they don’t deserve to be richer than you
First off, “smarter” is a really hard concept. Do you think Elmo Musk is smarter than you? He’s a conman and an idiot and I guarantee you he isn’t smarter than you
Then there are people that have certain specializations. They know everything about very little. This means they are very smart nonbthe subjects they know about and well, not so smart in others
There are also the true geniuses, but those usually don’t end up uber rich. The theoretical physicists under us aren’t known for being billionaires
Then there is just the basic question: what is smart? Somebody who mnaged to make a lot of money? Usually that’s not smart, it’s stepping on others backs. Musk made a lot of money but he did it by lying and scamming (and he continues to this day)
And even then… Let’s assume for a second that there are objectively smarter people out there, do they deserve more than you and I, just because of good genetics? Fuck that Nazi shit.
I want a world wide wealth cap. Say, 1 million dollar (pinky pushing against corner of mouth)
We can keep capitalism as-is, all fine, but when your networth gets higher, your income taxes get higher… when you reach 1 million, 100% goes to taxes
This way, we have the strengths of capitalism yet no more millionaires. Without millionaires, a huge amount of shit that comes with them, disappears too. Governments on the other hand get a huge tax income that they can spend on free healthcare, free education, universal basic income, you name it. Nobody will be super rich, nobody will ever be poor again.
The 1M is a random number I pulled out of my ass, but the point stands. We need to cap how much net worth a single person can have. There is no explicit right that says you should be allowed to hoard money and art and networth.
Within that limit we can allow people to do what they want. What to buy an expensive house? As long as it’s under the max, sure!
Those crazy ass houses with 500 rooms from oligarchs? Convert them into hotels. Same goes for those crazy luxury ships, make small cruise ships out of them. Ban private jets unless for things where it makes sense, like medical transportation or something
We don’t NEED private jets for anyone, especially not in the age of video calls
Billionaires and millionaires are the main reason why democracy is dying, why the world’s environment is dying, why things are as bad as they are, today.
Ban millionaires, ban billionaires and let everybody be as “rich” as they want within the wealth cap.
I don’t watch star trek anymore. Havent watched SNW, haven’t watched this either, and won’t ever.
I hope one day I can go back and watch TNG or DS9 again without feeling the cringe from ST Picard.
I watched 5 episodes of STD and dumped it, it was awful CGI slop. I regretfully watched the nu trek movies and they’re literally much worse remakes of earlier star Trek movies.
Then came ST: Picard, which has managed to ruin even TNG for me for a long, long time. I knew it would be terrible but everyone and their mother was repeating the aggressive marketing campaign that it would be absolutely awesome and ooooohhh god it was bad. They fucking ruined Q… That pissed me off.
Want to watch the true successor to star trek, in heart and mind? Wat h the Orville. Seasons 1 &2 are awesome, 3 kinda went into the same shit direction like star trek with longer episodes, weaker stories and much, MUCH more CGI to make up for it and hope we wouldn’t notice. Season 3 is still not AS bad as nu trek, but it’s close. 1&2, though, best trek since DS9, they even have their TBOBW moment!
SNW had a holodeck episode
Ahhh FFS. That sort of crap is too why I stopped watching star trek, completely. Star Trek used to be made by people who loved the show, now it’s a cash cow being milked to death and they hope with adding know actors and loads of CGI that we won’t notice. Hell, when the producers said they don’t really care much about Star Trek, that should have set off some alarm bells but nope, all good.
I watched 5 episodes of STD and dumped it, it was awful CGI slop. I regretfully watched the nu trek movies and they’re literally much worse remakes of earlier star Trek movies.
Then came ST: Picard, which has managed to ruin even TNG for me for a long, long time. I knew it would be terrible but everyone and their mother was repeating the aggressive marketing campaign that it would be absolutely awesome and ooooohhh god it was bad. They fucking ruined Q… That pissed me off.
Want to watch the true successor to star trek, in heart and mind? Wat h the Orville. Seasons 1 &2 are awesome, 3 kinda went into the same shit direction like star trek with longer episodes, weaker stories and much, MUCH more CGI to make up for it and hope we wouldn’t notice. Season 3 is still not AS bad as nu trek, but it’s close. 1&2, though, best trek since DS9, they even have their TBOBW moment!
Whatever you do, do NOT accept a payment to leave. This is YOUR land, YOUR country, YOUR inheritance in this world
Plus, you know, you’re dealing with a professional scammer. I guarantee you that you will never see a dime if you accept and leave
Narrator: they didn’t
Take my money, I want to watch that
The woke force in magnets has gone too far!
Don’t hold your breath
I’m sure the current system will collapse, I’m also pretty sure that whatever comes after isn’t going to be much different or better. It’ll definitely not be “lets share honesty and fairly”, it’ll more be like “have you heard of this new thing called the tricked down effect?”
So who is going to do when what about?
I’m keeping it a sort of open ended question because this is a problem world wide and it won’t stop until someone’s putting a very hard stop to it
The way I see it, if things don’t change soon, billionaires will face a choice:
Return your fortune to the poor by paying taxes until your below, say, a billion
Run like Marie Antoinette
You gotta love these fascists coming from a all over the country to your local community to tell you guys that your neighbors (or maybe even just you) are criminals even though they know jack shit about your community
This is all about spreading hatred and fear, like a disease, and all these Muppets have already been infected
The only real solution is to eradicate the disease
Trump creates his own un-united nations
FTFY
So when are we going tondo what about this?
This. Has. To. Stop.
We cannot allow a single person or family to control a single news organization, let alone multiple. Anyone who thought that was a good or even okay idea has been, and continues to be, delusional.
Wine Is Not an Emulator
As well as verifying ages, ScanTek boasts “collect marketing information from IDs and drivers licences, which business owners can use to target specific demographics with promotions”
And here we have the real reason why they want the scanning
Added security to keep the random asshole out, sure, but the marketing is the point. Fuck that shit, if rather not go out to a bar than this
Annex? They’ve sent so much aid over the years that by now they should get automatic ownership, yet the Cheetos keeps rambling about Greenland
I think that the US should be split into 50 new independent nations.
All the Republican led ones will slide into third world banana republic dictatorships that soon won’t be able to feed their own population, bit that is their own problem. At least the rest of the nations can continue to develop into normal states where people have actual freedom
Technically, we all are dying,it’s just a matter of how long it will take.
In the Cheetos case, I am hoping it’ll be less than a year left
Elmo Musk became the world’s biggest billionaire by scanning and lying about everything.
Others took note and took his example and just make random shit up, say shit that can’t be verified or even if it can, doesn’t matter. Just make fantastical fanatical unsubstantiated claims, and you will be rich too, bro!
This is Thiel in a nutshell