Mitchell HashimotoNov 6
It’s interesting being in a financial class now where I see people calling for my death daily on social media (not me specifically but me as a category of people). I’m not defending bad people, I don’t think I’m one of them on balance, I’m just making a narrow comment where it’s interesting to wake up and think “oh look, someone I had dinner with a dozen times calling for my death.”
Show threadLuke Kanies

@mitchellh I don’t want there to be any billionaires. But I only want that to be accomplished through taxation and other policies.

No one should die. But no one should have so much money they can distort our system, either.

(And obviously, one of the first policies needs to be limiting how much one person can spend on politicians.)

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Show threadMitchell HashimotoNov 6
@lkanies I'm supportive of all that. I don't mind general calls for better policies, taxation, etc. It's just weird when people call for literal death. Not "they shouldn't exist [by policy]" but "they should die." I can't find the toot now, it was a few days ago, but there was one going around that was like "pick a random billionaire and kill them" and I was like... oh okay. lol.
Show threadMitchell HashimotoNov 6
@lkanies Also, fwiw, I paid a full ~40% tax rate on my IBM proceeds this year (my tax bill was over $100M). I'm not doing anything dodgy.
Show threadLuke KaniesNov 6

@mitchellh good times 😬.

My finance people always look at me like I’m crazy when I say my primary goal in hiring them is not to doge taxes.

Hopefully your bank did not fail that big tax week, like mine did the week I was paying my puppet taxes. That was a lot of mine.

Show threadLuke KaniesNov 6
@mitchellh agreed on that. We should be able to do this without planning to kill people.
Show threadAiden Fox IveyNov 7

@mitchellh @lkanies I think the people reacting like that are a mix of generally disturbed individuals and people expressing their powerlessness in what a lot of people consider a totally inappropriate way.

I assume a lot of this is because regulatory measures to limit accumulation of wealth have not worked.

Show threadLuke KaniesNov 7
@aidenfoxivey @mitchellh s/have not worked/have been abandoned because they worked too well/
Show threadAiden Fox IveyNov 7
@lkanies @mitchellh Fair point lol - I’m too young to know when it worked - so all I know is it not really working.
Show threadLi ~ Crystal SystemNov 10

@aidenfoxivey @mitchellh @lkanies interesting how it unacceptable for people to express powerlessness in this way, but yet while its completely fine and acceptable for people with power over others to express this sort of thing (and also actually do them to orher people)

people in power are calling for people to be killed or otherwise calling for people to be immensely harmed all the time, and actually are doing said killing or other severe harm to them, and almost no one cares or does about it; heck they fucking rush to defend it of go on about how "necessary" it is half the time.

but the second its the other way around the second its someone with no social power calling for harm to those *with* it;
suddenly now its not okay to call for death or harm to come to other people.

its kinda interesting how that works ^^

like your not technically wrong in the sense that **no one should be killed or harmed** .. but there is also something kinda wrong going on here ..