Imagine how different the world would be if billionaires competed to solve problems instead of competing to become richer. What a world that would be!
To be honest, I think the billionaires think they are solving problems. I also think that they believe if they had the money they could do more good with it. They are obviously wrong.
I had this vision of the military. Imagine a natural disaster like a tsunami is about to strike the Middle East. Here comes the carrier force and they start launching what looks like tomahawk missiles. Instead of blowing people up on the ground they open up in air and drop rafts and life preservers. The military has shown up to save countless people instead of murdering them.
National guard? I think that’s them?
Yes, along those lines only the major force(Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force, etc.) would be like a nation wide coast/national guard that goes around helping nations out in times of disasters. In-between disasters they could act like a worldwide corp of engineers improving areas that need it.
Correct (when it comes to billionaires; Sam Altman and his ilk intentionally caused the RAM shortage by buying RAM their companies are not using and should be held accountable).
Billionaires would be impossible in a properly civilised society, which would implement progressive taxes so that anyone with a wealth above, say, ten times the median wealth of the population or 25 times the wealth of the poorest person (citizen or not) in the nation (whichever’s lowest at the time) are taxed to the point that their wealth can increase no further, with the resulting income being invested on public services so that personal wealth is irrelevant except for luxury items.
Quit making perfect sense. You’re making the capitalists nervous and ruining the hopes and dreams of all the Questrader’s out there. /s
I get what he’s saying, but billionaires don’t have “billions” in “banks”.
People have this contrary view that billionaires actually have all this liquid wealth, yet that same money living in the stock market is fake. And this causes no cognitive dissonance.
It’s not “fake”. They can liquidate. Bezos liquidated 10 billion in stock to push his cock-rocket vanity project over the finish line. They can do it when they want to. The same way they can do it to pay taxes, if we make them. No, it’s not “fake money”.
I knew there’d be folks in here claiming it’s “fake money.” They can liquidate when they want to, it’s not “fake.”
Not only is it real money when its invested, typically the rich can just borrow against those shares instead of having to liquidate anything to pay for things.
For example when they need $40b to purchase a website or media corp to use so they can have better control of the narrative, they just get a loan because everyone knows they’ll be able to make the payments, instead of selling enough shares to tank the thing that inflates their networth beyond all reason.
They can liquidate part of it. If they liquidate all of it then most will disappear into thin air.
If you’re Elon Musk and own a large part of Tesla and SpaceX and you sell all your shares, both companies crater HARD.
Just remove stock from anyone who owns over 1% of any publicly traded company and nationalize all index funds’ assets (yes, that includes retirement funds). Problem solved.
Or just cap total wealth at ~5 mill, indexed to the median income so there’s no need for legislation like with minimum wage.
They don’t even need to liquidate. They can just take a loan against it like they already do.
the catch is that those billions are not even real for the most part.
I have 624 GB of DDR5 6000 MHz RAM just sitting around. Sam Altman, you can lick my butt and suck on my balls
I’ll lick your butt for some of that ram
Did a 2 slip in between that 6 and 4? Or how do you end up with that much DDR5?
He bankrolled a longevity company called Retro Bio to the tune of $150M. It’s lunacy and the money would be way better spent by the NIH as tax dollars.
Also, the idea that accelerating AI development should be the goal is I think silly.
If anything we should be slowing down the RAM factories. We have too much RAM. We need less RAM.
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*** Angry Karl Marx sounds rising! ***
That’s not how net worth works. Being a billionaire != having billion $ in a bank account.
They’re still financially obese parasites whose wealth should be taxed until it doesn’t exceed a reasonable amount (say, ten times the median or 25 times the lowest, whichever comes first), though.
the lowest is zero, or very close to it.
OK, so tax anyone with more wealth than that (exponentially proportionally to the difference) and invest in services and UBI and whatnot until it raises.
the lowest will always be zero, do not doubt the capacity of individuals to become statistical outliers and spend all their money. It might be a little bit reasonable if it was set to 100x-10000x the wealth of the 99.99th percentile
Yeah, most of it is all smoke and mirrors but they all own media companies which make it seem more than it actually is.
It doesn’t state that it’s in one person’s bank account.
Not when you use Chrome.
But then how will we resurrect the great israel?
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If you think a billionaire made their money in a vacuum, with no impact on society, you’ve been duped.
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I can only assume the 105 IQ reference in your username is accurate. Just barely above average, but apparently enough to give you an inflated and misplaced sense of intellectual superiority. It would certainly explain the confidence with which you mistake your own ideological assumptions for economic analysis.
you seperate everyone into superiors and inferiors.
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no, theres
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petit-bourgeouise
proleteriat
you think bill gates is the only one that works at microsoft?
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That is false. If Bill Gates was the only one at Microsoft, it would have been limited to a garage sale. The employees are responsible for the modern Microsoft in the same way he is. (FYI, microsoft is evil and a PRISM member)
Your home is not a business
and yes, the cleaning lady is essential
would you want to work in a filthy disgusting building?
There is, and there always has been, an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that person’s propensity to be impressed by the measurement of I.Q.
- Christopher Hitchens
People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.
- Stephen Hawking
IQ is no measure of intelligence, EQ is no measure of emotion either. But craving for IQ and EQ is symptom of a shallow and feeble character.
- Abhijit Naskar, Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science
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there it is
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so theres a person that exists that will work for low, grueling wages
and instead of blaming the superiors for paying them low, grueling wages, you blame them?
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being a billionaire means being a thief as one has to exploit the surplus labor value of his employees to earn that much
Username checks out.
Maybe if you remove the 1 and the 0.
Nah, 105 is around average, and people are dumb as fuck.
100 is literally average (median), that’s the point of it.
It’s a scale that sets 100 as the middle, and then above average is anything above 100, and below average it’s anything below 100
It’s a fucking bell curve, and IQ is a rather vague measure.
Most people will be between 90 and 110, and 95 would be just as a about average as 105.
Oh don’t get me wrong, anyone who thinks IQ is important also thinks their own farts are delicious
