• Murse@slrpnk.net
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    2 hours ago

    Better idea: drive a stake 50% through AI CEO’s chest. Better, faster results, not just economically, but ecologically too!

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    Gave your eye on the ball: 100% of the profits must pay for universal healthcare.

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    The biggest flaw, aside from it having to succeed in our corporate owned Congress, is that it would require these companies to actually make money, and based on the technology we have today, that seems unlikely to happen anytime in the next decade. At least not without some major technological breakthrough. But it’s better than nothing I suppose.

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    Unfortunately, I probably have a better chance of winning the lottery 15 times in a row than this bill passing

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      That’s no reason not to ask

      Giving up only means that it will never happen. Having the balls to demand, it means it will at least remain a thorn in the Nazis side.

      And if you ever propose the argument, other than “fuck the Nazis“, then I can’t see why anyone should ever back you

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        I feel that logic is flawed. Instead of proposing or asking for something that has an ice cube’s chance in hell, it would make a lot more sense to make small changes that have a higher chance of being implemented to the point where the final product is a positive.

        Boiling frog fable. If you put a frog in a pot and crank the heat all the way up, that frog will likely jump out. If you slowly raise the temperature, the frog is less likely to perceive it right away.

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        Except the nazis who matter don’t give a shit. You think musk is going to give this a second thought? All this amounts to is a distraction. The problem with bills like this is they take away resources from something that can do some actual good.

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    Ew, no, thanks. Feels like he got this “idea” from some slop machine.

    Just tax them, regulate them, fine them into bankruptcy, and sue them for crimes against humanity.

    Use taxes and regulations to incentivize cooperatives and disincentivize private companies.

    Tax revenue and income progressively (starting on the negatives: if you’re below the mean you get money), reaching 100% for anything above 100,000$/month for individuals and 100,000$/month/employee for companies.

    Scale fines with personal wealth/ valuation, so that they have the same impact regardless of wealth.

    Tax and regulate the stock exchange like the gambling joint that it is.

    Hold CEOs, boards, and stockholders personally responsible for any crimes or torts committed by their companies.

    Nationalise any companies that provide first needs or anything remotely resembling a utility, and turn them into cooperatives.

    Tax 100% of any wealth over, say, ten times the mean.

    I don’t know, there’s so many better things to do than spreading this cancer over all the population. All this would do is make it hit harder once the bubble pops.

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    Pretty horseshit to act like they trained AI on only American data so only Americans should benefit.

    What about the literal entire rest of the world? They get nothing right?

    Just another example of America exploiting the world for their own benefit. Even the good ones are so corrupted by their system that they do it without realizing.

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      Boom.

      I don’t know how you divide it up amongst countries but I like where your head is.

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      This kind of bill is the only way we ever get any kind of UBI and the closest thing to taxes these companies ever pay.

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        AI companies have to be profitable for that to happen. They’re not, and the costs are only going up.