[-] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 4 months ago

We have long passed the point where lobbying and bribing were just doing your fiduciary duty.

And indeed, it seems we are back to feudalism and you have to pay tribute to the divine king and kiss his ring.

[-] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 11 months ago

The comment that was liked says to "vote her if not Trump", it doesn't say to vote "Trump if not her".

A very important nuance. A more charitable explanation is that she is trying to get undecided voters. Which is exactly what a presidential candidate is supposed to do.

[-] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 year ago

No, he joined the national guard first.

They paid for his college education to become a teacher.

[-] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 year ago

No more billionaires, but everyone can be a millionaire.

The shortest path to equality is to greatly reduce taxes on the middle class and increase them on the wealthy.

It puzzles me why leftist parties don't all embrace lower taxes for the middle class.

[-] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 year ago

I think the latest insights are showing that it is more than just that though.

Extreme wealth also leads to mental health issues. Paranoia (leading Zuckerberg to build a $260M bunker in Hawaii), god complexes (people like Trump and Bloomberg running for president) and just general anti-social tendencies, like Musk buying twitter and impregnating SpaceX employees.

Pedophilia also deserves a special mention. Look a level deeper at the Epstein situation. Note that they were mostly after post-pubescent young girls, so it wasn't the "I am attracted to pre-pubescent kids" type of pedophilia, but the "I am so powerful, I'm going to eat the forbidden fruit" type of pedophilia.

There should definitely be a cap on wealth.

[-] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 year ago

Netanyahu and the right need more terrorists in order to justify further land grabs, so yes, that's the goal.

Radicalize more people, so that those people strike back, then engage in war and take their land.

And yes, this is also how the Europeans and Americans took land from the natives during colonization.

[-] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 year ago

I really don't want to victim blame, but people really have to be careful when travelling.

Not every country is as liberal as the West.

Otto Warmbier

Brittany Griner

And now this guy.

[-] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 1 year ago

Layoffs... In this labour market, lol.

He might as well close shop.

McDonalds operates in a highly competitive market and as anyone who has ever worked in one can tell you, they already have the absolute minimum employees that they can get away with.

This is also in line with what textbook economics would predict.

So yeah, he will layoff whomever he can, whether min wage is $10 or $20.

[-] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 1 year ago

The poster said "now do NDAs", which is what the parent is referring to

[-] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 year ago

Indeed, a pool of menstruation blood would be the more accurate equivalence.

[-] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 year ago

Indeed.

And an often overlooked downside of all the tax loopholes is that asshole billionaires don't pay tax, so they have a competitive advantage against someone like Mark Cuban.

Basically, with billionaires we are evolving them to become nastier with each generation.

[-] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 year ago

The difference is that even young people say life was better when boomers were young.

Higher wages, cheaper housing, lower cost of living.

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