- cross-posted to:
- techtakes@awful.systems
- cross-posted to:
- techtakes@awful.systems
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Clearly the world might need to explore other options to deal with the billionaire problem.
I prefer that billionaires and the Epstein class get the death penalty
Billionaire demonstrates to the world how billionaires can be dangerous, and why he, personally, should not be trusted with a billion dollars.
“People shouldn’t be allowed to buy elections”
“Well maybe you shouldn’t have that chair! Did you ever think of that?”
well then that means you should support wealth tax?
I mean this guy is seriously the CEO of one of the largest tech companies on Earth. He sees that people hate surveillance and then thinks that by flaunting threats he can obscure the connection between surveillance and rich people, lol. He is like the Trump of the tech world.
I want to be very clear that I am NOT endorsing violence toward billionaires.
I am merely pointing out that I fully believe that it will happen, and that I have read a history book, and I know about 1789 France.
I am endorsing violence against billionaires. We should make billionaires non-existent even if that means wielding violence as they do against the working class.
Billionaires are a global problem. With the ability to be anywhere in the world they want to be at any time, fucking up economies, corrupting governments, and more.
We should deal with them when and where we can, especially since our governments have proven susceptible to their corruption.What about endorsing violence towards billionaires that are endorsing (and sometimes perpetuating) violence towards all of us?
Do you know about the Bourgeoisie and the Aristocracy? Did the people fight for democracy or did the Bourgeoisie use the people to replace the Aristocracy with themselves?
We already have mass surveillance. Fuck this guy.
Tracking our phones, tracking all our internet activity, tracking our cars, tracking us in stores, tracking what we buy, tracking what we watch on TV… We’re already there.
That site is just Flock.
The level of personal tracking is absurd.
There’s a reason the supermarket wants you to use their app for “digital coupons”. There’s a reason they want you to scan inside the store.
As an added bonus, big-box retail has a natural immunity to external RF, which forces you to use their wifi, which can track you down to your position in a specific aisle, how much time you spend there, your path around the store, etc.
And then when you’re done, they know exactly what you bought because it’s linked to your store card (which is naturally linked to the app, which is tracking you around the store).
They know what cuts of meat you like just as much as they know what kind of fungal infection you have.
They know (roughly) what you decided not to get just as well as they know what you did get
They know how much time you spent calculating the best deal on paper towels (the planograms have been updated to reflect this…items that people spend a lot of time contemplating are no longer facing each other in the aisle…they are always on the same side of the aisle…you won’t find PT opposite TP, you won’t find dog food opposite cat food, etc…they can track your position in the aisle but not which way you face).
And that data is more valuable than the profits on the goods in your cart.
Just as one example.
A company designed for surveillance and named for surveillance devices in LOTR will cause surveillance.
Wealth tax will just make them slightly less unimaginably rich.
Paul Krugman insists that we’ll need to separate these people from their unimaginable riches if we want society to survive.
Of course they don’t want to give up their colossal capital, and would rather spend the rest of their lives going mad in their apocalypse shelters. An apocalypse they could have prevented if they could help but act like a cancer.
More rich if they supply the system to do it.
Off with his head already.
Sounds like he wants the wealth tax to be so high that there is no “wealth” left. 'Cause no wealth means no mass surveillance.
That’s what he is advocating for . . Right? /s
The wealth tax doesn’t need to be so high that there’s no wealth left.
Just about neck level or so.
It’s him, it’s a threat, he’ll do it to recoup the money he’s paying in taxes.
Scumbag needs a lesson
This is a sales pitch.
Wealth tax is largely an idiotic idea though. Some limited part does provably work though – Switzerland has had such a thing in place for a very long time. Their taxation in general is amazing in other ways too.
What’s your point?
how can humans be said to be advancing when we allow clear liabilities like this person to flourish?
Cool. Then we need that pronto. Isn’t that your company’s mission anyway?
So we need to tax wealth so much that there is no money for surveillance. Got it.
You son of a bitch. I’m in.
Uhh that just gives the government more money for surveillance. You’ll get your surveillance either way, don’tcha worry.
Not necessarily. You tax these fuckers into the ground, and now they can’t pay to influence government like they do now. So we get back to an actual “of the people, by the people, for the people” government. Which means if the people don’t want surveillance, then it doesn’t happen.
Frankly, I trust a government minus corruption 10000x more than any profit driven corporation.
I have not watched this interview, but I have never watched this man have a straight face, he is always high as fuck.
Good. They are starting to threaten the people of the society in which they want to live. It won’t be long now until those people are forced to start thinking they are just a business, not saviours or overlords. Just selling shit to make a few bucks, nothing more, nothing less. Tick, tock…
