• floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    The ongoing outrage over the proposed tax is a little funny, given that it’s already been known for quite some time that the legislation has almost no chance of being enacted. That’s because California Governor Gavin Newsom has already stated that, should the bill somehow pass, he would veto it.

    That’s not funny. But the billionaires should still march. They might be surprised how many people will gladly come and help march them through the streets.

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    Surely millions of people will protest on their behalf. It’s not like they’re going to get their fat asses out there.

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    I stopped reading after “AI startup”.Everything these clowns do is a publicity stunt aimed at sucking up VC money and splitting before the jig is up.

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    Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

    Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

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    “Vilifying billionaires is popular. Losing them is expensive.”

    If this isn’t a Honeypot it is absolutely hilarious that think that billionaires being “lost” is them leaving the country/state

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      It sounds like yet another dumbass that had their brain scrambled by the horrible sci-fi writer named Ayn Rand, who was even worse at philosophy than she was at writing prose. Surprised they aren’t just outright saying they are threatening to “go Galt”. 🙄

      There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

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          I could not agree more. At one point, I was Libertarian and was always told what great lit it was and it would explain so much, etc. Some time later I was no longer Libertarian and doing lots and lots of reading due to a layoff and trying to find something positive (and free, thanks to good libraries) to fill my time with in between responding to recruiters and job interviews, etc.

          I decided I’d finally read Atlas Shrugged. The magnum opus. The book so many Libertarians point to. I had the time and the library had the book, so why not?

          And…oh gawd. What drivel. What a shitty philosophical system. I had to force myself to finish reading it. LOL. And then shortly after, I started seeing all these “who’s John Galt?” and “gone Galt” stickers on cars.

          Gag.

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    They may call that a walk among the plebe, the 1% march doubt could be larger than a neighbourhood meeting…

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    The one march that wont have any threats of violence against it, because the people that do that are bootlickers