I’d still go. I’d find it macabre and funny, it wouldn’t make me anxious. Private plane!
Humans like to believe a lot of stupid stuff without evidence, and feel like it becomes more true the more other people believe in the same stupid stuff.
It does cap the wildest, antisocial forms of success that are insane excess.
Progressive taxation should mean you can never gain enough power, which capital is, to warp your society with power beyond your single vote, whether that power is expressed through direct bribery, lobbying, or mass media propaganda to try to trick your fellow citizens into voting and advocating against their own interests.
I don’t see any shame, horror, or problem with putting a hard cap on how much an individual can accumulate, as other people live here too.
Despite what Elon Musk believes, this whole planet shouldn’t be his personal playground, but that’s what it means to become a trillionaire, entire governments will bow at your feet. That’s perverse. No unelected, unaccountable individual should hold so much power, unless humanity wants to live in a hell of its own making.
Ooh I am a social justice thief and agent of karma.
I used to deliver home medical equipment for a decade. Oxygen machines, hospital beds and the like.
I’d short the rich patient’s supplies and give the always bitter and entitled fucks the oldest, loudest equipment, and give the extra and the nice, small, most portable and dependable equipment to the most destitute, who were always the nicest and unlike the patients in affluent towers would always offer me tips I’d always choose to decline.
When the rich fucks called to complain “their machine is too noisy” I’d always tell the management that explicitly told us to give the worst equipment to medicaid patients I gave them the best machine in my van, lol.
It wasn’t much, but I’m very proud of that time in my life. Honestly I feel like I did more good in the world in that job than I did as a therapist. I made the lives of the elderly poor of the city I live in significantly easier and more manageable off the backs of the elderly wealthy, who often then went and private paid for their own brand new oxygen machines (that were the same models I’d given to their poor counterparts) anyway.
Exactly.
It’s not accusing the being gay of fucking them up, it’s accusing the unhealthy repression.
They aren’t really centrists.
They just don’t want the blame or accountability.
“Communism has killed trillions of people!”
Meanwhile… in an American tent city or under your nearest American freeway…
In Republican’s fever dream scenario, they’d leave 200 million people marooned to die standing room only on an embargoed Puerto Rico.
Get your logic out of here as to why that isn’t possible.
I’d still go. I’d find it macabre and funny, it wouldn’t make me anxious. Private plane!
Humans like to believe a lot of stupid stuff without evidence, and feel like it becomes more true the more other people believe in the same stupid stuff.