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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] Soup@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Like, sorta, but also no. “Most luxuries” and “live somewhere cheap” are both insane things to say, too.

I know what you’re trying to get at, and I get it, but to say that someone who can still drive any car they want, live pretty much wherever except for some very specific places, get into whatever niche hobby their heart desires, and never needs to fear unemployment is not rich is just silly. I also said “tax them”, which means they’d still have everything else they currently own and could make money on that stuff, too.

A person with a million dollars is a person without any meaningful restriction on their life.

Edit: Goddamn, a lot of ya’ll really upset about this comment. Too bad, learn to read, and, failing that, find a high bridge over deep water ‘cause dealing with ya’ll just ain’t worth it.

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You said "tax them into only having a million dollars," which I cannot reconcile with your latest statement "they’d still have everything else they currently own and could make money on that stuff, too."

If you are talking purely about how much cash they have in the bank, then every person would just buy stocks until they had under that amount. Almost nothing would change.

[–] zikzak025@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

FWIW, stocks also need to be taxed a lot more than they are, or sharply limited in their trading potential and/or as compensation. Compensation in stock is how most of the billionaires of today amass their wealth, and it needs to stop being the loophole that it is.

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 1 points 2 days ago

Isn't a million like the price of a house these days? I get that we're all poor and we're never gonna own property, but the price of a house isn't enough to live in luxury for life.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 0 points 2 days ago

Well, if I had a million right now and stopped working, and everyone in my family would not work either anymore, that million will not last us even until my retirement age, that's also if the inflation is 0% until then. A million 50 years ago would probably be enough for that, but not now