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 KaniesNov 6

@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.)

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 Kanies

@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.

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