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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

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[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 8 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Glad to see the superrich don't object to paying large sums to build society. So we can just start wealth taxing them instead, that'll be fine right? That way they don't have to spend their valuable time cherrypicking initiatives and charities.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

It is just a case of efficiency, they are good at making money, not spending it, so we should tax them.

If they were so good at investing money in the public good then how come they still have so much money and so much time to bitch about unhoused people?

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 4 points 14 hours ago

"It's the only way to be sure," as Ellen Ripley said.

[–] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

From the billionaire's perspective, confiscatory taxation should be preferable to guillotines.