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Taxing profits incentivizes reinvestment over reaping.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distr... Since 1990 the top 1% of wealth holders have seen their share of the wealth increase significantly, almost entirely …

While Matt is technically correct, it's much easier to maintain a conspiracy like this when you have a small number of participants with a high concentration of share. If power is …

The point of democracy is consent of the governed. We very much do know the dumb or smart answer as to whether or not to vaccine the military.

Hadrian’s Firewall

Campaign donations are already public if you donate over $200 - https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup

For California, CAISO publishes a ton of data. Here is daily fuel mix - https://www.gridstatus.io/charts/fuel-mix?iso=caiso You can also see Texas (ERCOT), New York and a few other…

The point is to bankrupt the country so the robber barons can buy up all the assets for pennies on the dollar.

Every cell in your body (excepting red blood cells) has a complete copy of your genome. What differs is which portions are activated.

Predatory pricing is illegal in the US, but difficult to prosecute under the existing laws.

The fear is being heavily stoked by agitprop on social media.

Lina Khan did try and regulate. She had some successes, but the major cases w/r/t concentration of power against Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Meta and Apple have all moved slowly and…

Antitrust laws were written in the early 1900s and updated through the 1950s. Credit cards weren't available until 1966 and didn't become widely used until the 1990s. Digital platf…

If they know about malfeasance and don't stop it, they are complicit; if they don't know about it, they are grossly negligent. In either case, they should be held accountable for t…

That's exactly my point. It's not hard to figure out how to "put a corporation into prison", the issue is that we've been trained to accept corruption as a normal facet of corporat…

> This obviously has negative externalities, because while a corporation is easy to fine, it's hard to put in prison... but trying to approach it differently would be about as fun …

> And if you are white and have an American accent you're going to be ignored entirely anyway. For now, until they move on to persecuting political adversaries.

Kind of hard for the government to “prepare society to move forward” when the AI companies and their financiers lobby for conditions that worsen the ability of society to do so.

Are you carrying your groceries to the coffee shop? Also, walking places in US suburbs is a miserable experience, especially in the Southwest where it gets hot. Everything is sprea…

They are talking about US suburbs. For example, the house I grew up in is over a mile to the nearest grocery and you have to cross two large intersections on the way.

Because the oligarchs who own the media and the politicians don’t care about the petty lives of regular people.

I fail to see how. Having ad-subsidized access to Facebook and YouTube has not reduced poverty, hunger or made housing and healthcare more affordable for them. The overwhelming maj…