allow anyone to make up to $999,999,999 after-tax

way too much

this highlights EXACTLY one of the problems with “billionaires” discourse, in fact

Wealth cap is a great idea, but suffers from the same issue as “tax the rich,” in that how do you do either of those things when the ultrawealthy are the ones in political power? they generally aint gonna cap or tax themselves

Everyone on reddit is so pedanticly confrontational, to make it worse, most people like that are just really confidently wrong and therefore it’s an insufferable place. This also pretty much goes for all of mainstream media. Everyone has a shitty fucking opinion about basically everything now, and will fight you over everything no matter how big or small

Poisoned ass society and this seems to be a tad of an enclave

🅱️ased

All these comments, and no one is talking about the hot rod computer in the photo?

me to gen Z:

bullshit you dont defrag, you never fucking defragged

I have economic anxiety and he seems to be against the status quo. I think he will take on the jedi deep state

laughing my a o

or

laugh mayo

I know some of these numbers

It’s not against the rules to talk about trash pandas

“The mine owners did not find the gold asteroid, they did not mine the gold asteroid, they did not mill the gold asteroid, but by some weird alchemy all the gold from the asteroid belonged to them!”

Bill Haywood

I consider myself a writer, but don’t make much money from it (I make money elsewhere). Does that count?

Like most things that are not directly related to “productivity” specifically aligning with the current demands and whims of the economy, it’s difficult finding a way to make a decent income in the field, much less have a stable job with insurance benefits etc.

Still, it is a small part of the population who reads or even buys them.

And most people probably read one or two books as adults (if that), not much more than that.

Not just illiterate… like you alluded to, there is not even a desire to read (by 98% of the population, of course there are exceptions).

I was a teacher and saw first hand how the misery of schooling and methods of “instruction” directly create this life-long disposition in people.

I don’t think anyone is really chill and alert at the same time.

I do think so. I’ve attained this state. It’s famous in philosophy, spirituality, as a performer, in a “military” or fighting context, and so on.

But I guess it depends what you mean by chill. A better word is calm. It is totally possible to be calm and alert at the same time. I’d say it is a more ideal state to be in, and strive to achieve consistently.

They must be real big beans for 15 of them to last a few days

I do not use mainstream social media. Haven’t in years.