I can just picture every modern billionaire vomiting into their mouth at the thought.
I can just picture every modern billionaire vomiting into their mouth at the thought.
Yes.
Enforced, adequately high progressive taxation could do that, in fact we had tax rates closer akin to that prior to Reagan, and at one point our highest tax rate was close to 90% as it should be so as to limit accruing enough wealth to warp our society unilaterally beyond their single vote with media and political bribery, but that died a long time ago in the name of “turning the bull loose.”
But then the greediest fucks among us bribed our leaders to get their way, to thunderous applause by idiot conservative peasants and many so called democrats, today’s neoliberals, and here we are, planet burning, terminal stage capitalism, good fucking times. But hey, as long as Bezos can have a second mega yacht to keep his first mega yacht company (he really does look it up) I guess it was all worth our impending collapse.
And remember, because I feel this always needs to be said with such sums…
193 million isn’t enough for him, and 193 million plus whatever millions he made in years prior isn’t enough for him. He’s going public because he’s a broken, disturbed human being that looks at his unethical levels of wealth, enough for most of the other humans that live here to live 2 dozen extravagant lifetimes, and still demands mooooooaaaaaar.
Why isn’t this widely accepted as severe mental illness?! This is hoarding disorder.
These aren’t big ocean house sums. These are buying politicians sums, and they are only achievable through exploiting other human beings and selfishly pocketing most of the value of their labor because you can get away with it.
“The Futurist”
“Where to begin? Ah yes.”
Concerning Hobbits Rabbits…
You can hide a lot with a
baggy suitsociopath mumu.
ftfy
AGI confirmed.
They’ve already surpassed our wildest imaginations.
And zis, vat does zis von look like?
Bioshock 4: More Infinite-er
I can finally start dealing with my internet addiction!
Wait…
No friend, I meant the opposite.
I live in the US, a gold plated dystopia. I would be very much prefer to live in the Nordic nations. I dislike the United States, I see the Nordic nations as role model nations.
If you mean the modern idea of socialism, like the nordic nations, then absolutely get me the fuck out of rugged-individuals-at-eachother’s-throats-land please, these people are fucking nuts in the not fun way.
If you’re talking about one of the formerly socialist nations that the United States intentionally took covert action against and destabilized to keep the regional markets open for our capitalists to sociopathically exploit like Venezuela, then no thanks, I’ve already seen enough of that trademark American for private profit cruelty played out domestically in our innumerable tent cities in every American population center.
https://time.com/5512005/venezuela-us-intervention-history-latin-america/
Promises promises.
Yo ho matey, yo ho.
You just gave me an excellent idea!
In addition to the above, every human on Earth’s skin color going forward is now vomit green. No one won the millenia of race wars, every race lost, it was all pointless and stupid, everyone is now the vomit green race, congratulations.
Everyone who has a net worth of over 500 million head explodes.
Everyone going forward who reaches that sums head explodes.
I highly recommend the surviving family do some maths as to whether accepting their share of inheritance will make their heads explode.
Maybe people correctly condemning rational self-interest greed would make a comeback if the global oligarchs were no longer the apex predator here.
Oh also I’ve teleported all the Israelis and Palestinianians structures, resources, and people to rural Nebraska, and irradiated the land they were formerly at. Sorry you tantruming toddlers, can’t play nice, take away the toy you were fighting over.
When a communist calls themselves a commie, it’s a form of taking the insult’s power away from those that use it as an insult, and gaining solidarity from it, much like how racial pejoratives often come to be claimed by those communities in defiance of the original dehumanizing intent of the aggressors.
A capitalist calling a communist a commie is insulting. Just like a communist or socialist calling a capitalist a bootlicker.
A communist calling another communist a commie is solidarity.
When you win/exploit/inherit/etc enough capital to live well for multiple lifetimes, it always perpexes me when people fixate on making more.
You won, go enjoy hobbies you can easily fund now, it’s just hoarding at this point. Capital is a means, and it’s kind of pathetic when people warp it into their end goal when it’s no longer the key limiter to their lifestyle.
It’s no different than hoarding newspapers, but at least many of those hoarders often demosntrate the self-awareness and recognition of embarrassment.
Humanity is doomed in the short term by its own hand, and that is the absolute best fucking thing that can happen for the planet and the other life on it medium to long term.
We appear to be a self-solving blight upon the natural world. As the late, great George Carlin put it, the planet is ramping up to “shake us off like a bad case of fleas. A surface nuisance.”
As a species, we’ve proven beyond all doubt that we are too malicious to be stewards of this world, and too self-important to ever peacefully, recede in numbers in order to find equilibrium with this world as inhabitants, rather than have dominion over it.
Our macro-cancer ass of a species has got to go.
I wonder if Alice in Wonderland was in the prompt of if the model found her in the absurdity of the request.