If you think about it as “What’s the percentage chance that 1 of 4 family members is a sociopath? What’s the percentage that 2 family members are sociopaths?”, then I think it has to be less than 4%. Genetics make it more likely than 4% * 4%, I think.

For years, I’ve heard people say, “What? You want to outlaw wealth?”

This level of wealth? Yes. Tax it at 99% above 1bn.

You won the money game. Stop playing it. Help society.

Billionaire math

Average USA billionaire has about $7b in wealth.

2026 * 365 ‎ = 739,490

$7,000,000,000 / 739,490‎ = $9,465.98

You would need to make $9k per day, for 2026 years, to catch up to the average billionaire wealth right now.

It’s estimated in 2026 that it would cost $37b to end world hunger until 2030.

Also note that Musk, Bezos, and other extreme billionaires are up to 100x of the average here ($700b for Musk). Who is making $900k per day?

This is not natural, it’s not rational, and it’s completely bullshit. You can come up with whatever distraction you want (“wealth & income aren’t the same”), but we should be taxing every dollar above $1b at 99% or higher.

30 years * 365 day = 10,950

$1,000,000,000 / 10,950 ‎ = $91,324.20

I could easily live off of $91k per DAY for 30 YEARS.

If you put these numbers against a human time scale we can understand, I don’t see the argument for this level of wealth, especially not as people go hungry, without clothes or food, and children die.

“Drug Cartels”

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

Agreed here. Why bring in gender at all?

Billionaire math

Average USA billionaire has about $7b in wealth.

2026 * 365 ‎ = 739,490

$7,000,000,000 / 739,490‎ = $9,465.98

You would need to make $9k per day, for 2026 years, to catch up to the average billionaire wealth right now.

It’s estimated in 2026 that it would cost $37b to end world hunger until 2030.

Also note that Musk, Bezos, and other extreme billionaires are up to 100x of the average here ($700b for Musk). Who is making $900k per day?

This is not natural, it’s not rational, and it’s completely bullshit. You can come up with whatever distraction you want (“wealth & income aren’t the same”), but we should be taxing every dollar above $1b at 99% or higher.

30 years * 365 day = 10,950

$1,000,000,000 / 10,950 ‎ = $91,324.20

I could easily live off of $91k per DAY for 30 YEARS.

If you put these numbers against a human time scale we can understand, I don’t see the argument for this level of wealth, especially not as people go hungry, without clothes or food, and children die.

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Spotify performs as one of the worst when it comes to creator royalties and appropriate pay.

It’s not THE worst, and these numbers have shifted since 2022. The general sentiment (that Spotify stiffs artists) is still shared by the general community.

They can only do this with a credible claim legally. However, we know how much that word does not matter to this current regime…

We keep sinking lower and lower on the bar for civilized society. It was already bad in the US. It feels like a new low every day, either in competency, in malevolence, moral depravity, or all three. We’ve gone from “it’s the season of giving” to propagandizing fascist Santa, complete with passive aggressive Merry Christmas.

In the CECOT video, the president & warden are like, “Oh yeah, we fuck people up! Humans rights don’t matter here.” They are gloating to try and remove the shame of their lack of morality. Same thing is happening here. Shock & awe, flood the zone, & it never ends.

A lot of people are saying there isn’t a rights argument, which I think is true.

Considering this through the lens of a video game, is it morally bad if I pay a hooker in GTA, use their services, and then kill them? I don’t think there is harm. I don’t think there are rights. It wouldn’t matter if everyone was cruel to GTA NPCs.

Having said that, from a behavioral position, I don’t think it’s morally good. Put another way, this sort of behavior isn’t a good thing to emulate. I don’t think it’s a good idea to cultivate a habit of emulating cruelty.

As others have said, there’s still the risk of AGI in the future as well.

With where we are right now, I don’t think it’s a big deal, but I’m not interested in entertaining new slurs, fictional or real.

That’s called Unitarian Universalism.

What if, hear me out, it was health CARE and not INSURANCE? I’m an American, and we’re so programmed to discuss this as insurance (to stop something bad) rather than health care (a holistic set of benefits). AFAIK, the rest of the world sees this as the normal approach (care).

“Capitalism prices America out of Life & Liberty.”

Yes, agreed.

• Matthew 25:35
• Romans 12:13
• James 2:15-16
• John 13:34

In the New Testament, there’s plenty of pro immigrant quotes. It’s harder to find the anti-immigrant sentiment (unless you expand to the whole Bible).

These are important to me as gifts from my sister who passed away a few weeks ago. She gave them to me when I was 8 or something, and I’m 36 now. They are supposed to be for good luck & improved studies.

Could be a blooper, prank, or comedy show. Someone also posted AI examples that are close too.