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Thought for the day: Billionaires are a symptom of poverty. (Paraphrasing Iain Banks on money, but more specific to our times because we still need some way to allocate scarce resources, just: not like that.)
"Billionaires are a symptom of poverty." Every once in a while I'm reminded that my "wasting time" on this site is not wasting time, because it's how I can incredible ideas or articulations like this.
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Attached: 1 image My daughters and I are feeding cows 10,000 pounds of macadamia nuts each and that's what makes us so relatable and makes it so clear we don't need to be taxed at 95+ percent of our income.
Attached: 1 image Pillaged from BlueSky: "20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital."
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"I taught my kids about democracy last night. I had them vote on which movie to watch and what pizza to order. I then picked the pizza and which movie to watch because I'm the one with the money." #democracy #capitalism #fascism #goodgovernment #dadjokes
Content warning: mozilla ceo pay meta
Don't make fun of kids who still believe in Father Christmas, there are adults out there who think trickle-down economics is real...
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I started reading the newspapers early in life, mostly during mealtimes (a bad habit I picked up from my father). Eventually I started reading the business sections as well. One of things that always β¦
Wealth of Elon Musk 2012: $2,000,000,000 2023: $248,800,000,000 Wealth of Jeff Bezos 2012: $18,400,000,000 2023: $160,900,000,000 Wealth of Mark Zuckerberg 2012: $17,500,000,000 2023: $105,200,000,000 Federal Minimum Wage 2012: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Three words: tax the rich.
I'm not going to act like an expert on labor organizing. I didn't have that term in my vocabulary four years ago. Now it's one of the anchoring aspects of my life and something I'm deeply passionate β¦
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MillerKnoll says a video of CEO Andi Owen telling employees to stop "thinking about what youβre going to do if you donβt get a bonus" was taken "out of context."
This week weβre talking with Cory Doctorow (this episode contains explicit language) about his newest book Chokepoint Capitalism, which he co-autored with Rebecca Giblin. Chokepoint Capitalism is about how big tech and big content have captured creative labor markets and the ways we can win them back. We talk about cho...
Lately it feels like weβve transitioned from late capitalism to full on after-hours capitalism. Eerie vibes. No rules or regulations to speak of. Aggressive weirdos with power making everyone uncomfortable.
Josh Gondelman (@joshgondelman)Sun, 14 Aug 2022 15:21 +0000
What do Docker, GitLab, and Red Hat have in common? Aside from various levels of participation in open source, theyβve all been punching bags over the past few years for non-paying users angrβ¦
Every employee laid off to βrun a leaner teamβ is a measure intended to save the CEO from giving up 0.1% of their annual βperformanceβ bonus
emilia β¨ (@lazerwalker)Wed, 27 Jul 2022 02:27 +0000
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Carol π» (@CarolSaysThings)Tue, 19 Jul 2022 08:55 +0000
You ever look up in wonder at the infinite expanse of the night sky and think βI would like to traffic slaves thereβ
James Felton (@JimMFelton)Tue, 26 Apr 2022 19:26 +0000
The amount Elon Musk just paid for Twitter ($44 billion) is nearly equal to Bidenβs proposed climate budget ($44.9 billion), in case anyone's wondering how seriously weβre taking the climate crisis
Stephen Semler (@stephensemler)Tue, 26 Apr 2022 15:16 +0000
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It broke my brain when I realized most people making 125k/year don't work significantly harder than many people making 25k/year.
Bryant Suellentrop (@SullyBusiness)Thu, 21 Apr 2022 16:58 +0000
If Elon Musk lost 99.9% of his net worth, he would still have $250 million to his name.
Quite Interesting (@qikipedia)Fri, 22 Apr 2022 08:00 +0000
My only Netflix stock take is that maybe it isn't actually smart to base our entire financial system on the belief that everything needs to grow constantly forever to have any value.
Yell in a War (@jelenawoehr)Wed, 20 Apr 2022 23:35 +0000
Wealth of Elon Musk 2012: $2,000,000,000 2022: $273,600,000,000 Wealth of Jeff Bezos 2012: $18,400,000,000 2022: $181,300,000,000 Wealth of Mark Zuckerberg 2012: $17,500,000,000 2022: $76,800,000,000 U.S. Minimum Wage 2012: $7.25 2022: $7.25 Three words: tax the rich.Andrea Junker (@Strandjunker)Thu, 14 Apr 2022 13:45 +0000
In 2020 @JeffBezos made $8 million an hour. Every hour. @elonmusk? He made $18 million an hour. Every hour. The idea philanthropy is the answer when you make that much money is absurd. You canβt give it away quickly enough. The ultra rich should a pay a *lot* more tax.Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani)Wed, 13 Apr 2022 17:11 +0000
this is literally just capitalists admitting they donβt support a free labor market lmao
Mac (@GoodPoliticGuy)Mon, 11 Apr 2022 15:20 +0000
I think billionaires should pay throttlingly burdensome taxes, not to improve society, but because it makes them sad.
Alasdair Beckett-King (@MisterABK)Sat, 09 Apr 2022 08:52 +0000
Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein)Sat, 09 Apr 2022 18:41 +0000
Seems as appropriate as ever
πΊπ¦ Anthony, of course πππ (@ofcAnthony)Thu, 24 Mar 2022 08:14 GMT
Mondays are just capitalism's way of punishing us for the weekend.
Yechiel (@yechielk)Mon, 21 Mar 2022 14:51 GMT
Mitchy (@MouthyMitch)Sat, 19 Mar 2022 23:41 GMT
just eat lentils, nobody said this would be fun
jordan (@JordanUhl)Sat, 19 Mar 2022 23:39 GMT
They think we don't notice! #UnionsForAllAirport Workers United (@GoodAirports)Sun, 20 Mar 2022 19:43 GMT
Casual reminder that a huge reason that they don't want you to work from home anymore is because in terms of capitalism, it makes the dozens of skyscrapers and office buildings they built obsolete, impractical, unprofitable, and a generally bad financial investment.
Tony Chavez (@blacknexus)Sun, 06 Mar 2022 15:19 GMT
Cancelling a subscription in protest is the only way consumers can make their voices heard. It's not "cancel culture". It's called capitalism. The very thing most of these right-wing podcasters advocate for. And guess what, the pressure is working.
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Spotify is more confused about Joe Rogan than ever trib.al/piG3LpkThe Verge (@verge)Tue, 08 Feb 2022 07:11 GMT
Kieran McHugh (@kieranmch)Tue, 08 Feb 2022 19:45 GMT
When you see articles claiming Covid is affecting people in ways no one could have predicted, please remember *all of this* was predicted, but we listened to economists & corporations instead.
Laura Miers (@LauraMiers)Sun, 30 Jan 2022 19:40 GMT
I think it rules that there are like 6 companies total now
50 tweet thread about the PBS DragonTales PsyOp (@Boringstein)Tue, 18 Jan 2022 15:46 GMT
$10,000 is a lot of money, right? If you made $10,000 every day since 1776, you still wouldn't have $1 billion today. Stop defending modern day robber barons.Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2)Wed, 12 Jan 2022 07:58 GMT
Why is it always "McDonald's workers don't deserve to be paid as much as paramedics," and never "CEOs don't deserve to be paid three thousand times more than paramedics"?
Ricky (@RickyDHale)Thu, 06 Jan 2022 13:29 GMT
Look I'm not a fan of Capitalism, but it seems that there's a pretty simple patch that would help right now: Hire more people to do less work each, but for more money. Flatten salaries.
bryce baril (@brycebaril)Sat, 08 Jan 2022 20:42 GMT
good people don't reform bad companies. bad companies reform good people
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Given this logic, aren't the true heroes folks who work hard to reform these companies from within. π€ twitter.com/ctrlshifti/staβ¦Daniel Wallen (@WebWallen)Fri, 31 Dec 2021 00:45 GMT
Kat Maddox (@ctrlshifti)Fri, 31 Dec 2021 00:47 GMT
Your regular reminder that you do not need to monetise your passion or your hobby to justify spending time on it.
basedjoan.eth (@Joanwestenberg)Wed, 29 Dec 2021 09:38 GMT
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