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Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

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RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote: post #224
chc wrote: post #186

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I think there are a couple of other recent presidential hopefuls who centered their messages much more around reducing the structural power of billionaires and large corporations.

> who centered their messages much more around reducing the structural power of billionaires and large corporations. The problem is that there is a segment of the American voters who believe that if the current billionaires and large corporations would quit screwing them, they would become the billionaires and owners of the large corporations. As such they are all for screwing over the current crop of billionaires, b…

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Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

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Post by pundesigner »

syops wrote: post #284
tclancy wrote: post #266

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"Think of how dumb the average American is. And then realize half of them are dumber than that ."

The interesting thing about this quote is that there's a decent chance it's wrong. Is there a reason to believe that half the people are below the average? (As opposed to the median.) Carlin is exposing his own ignorance of statistics with this quote. It's akin to when people criticize the grammar of others whilst making a grammatical mistake.

IQ distribution is symmetrical by design (it's a normal distribution), so he's still right. https://www.123test.com/interpretation-of-an-iq-score/

Also even if that weren't true, "average" isn't necessarily synonymous with "mean". The mean, median, and mode are all types of averages.

Maybe don't be so quick to criticize next time.

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Post by rangibaby »

Darmody wrote: post #81
api wrote: post #29

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Modern surveillance capitalism is far beyond the wildest fever dreams of 90s shortwave radio conspiracy nuts.

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If you told Markus Wolf in 1989 that in 2021 most citizens in the world would write each other private and political communicatons via a tracking device that can’t be turned off, and that device has both microphones and cameras, he would raise and eyebrow and ask “How did we win the Cold War?”

Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

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Post by ummonk »

fooqux wrote: post #101
mhh__ wrote: post #87

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Maybe, but Google are in a different league to these funds.

Google the corporation? Sure. Many of the managers and workers at Google? Quite likely have a stake in what goes down on Wall Street.

I doubt it. I'm at Facebook not Google but most of us employees are supporting the WSB side of this.

Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

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Post by malwrar »

ncallaway wrote: post #286
SllX wrote: post #221

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> We need to start by making it illegal to be a billionaire. I’m listening. What does this law look like?

2% annual wealth tax on wealth over 200M. 70% top marginal tax rate on incoming over $10M in a year. Then it wouldn't be illegal to be a billionaire, but it would be much harder, and would mean you were constantly contributing a significant amount back to society if you're able to maintain that level of wealth.

How would this work for someone who is a billionaire by means of illiquid assets like stock in the company they founded?

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Post by bilekas »

aaomidi wrote: post #38

Why do people keep needing proof that big money runs everything.

Bingo, this whole fiasco has highlighted it hard (600%+) though. I'll get a lot of hate for this I know.

My issue is why people think it's not working for them too.

Yes there is corruption and fckery in WS. But make no mistake. Those Fckers are also making sure our companies have capital, ensure activity etc.

The trickle down BS doesnt come from govmnt or taxes, it comes from WS. Not NEARLY a percentage of what is deserved, but it does.

The change needs to happen at the bottom, minimum wage, basic living standards, quality of life etc.

then Reddit wouldn't pay attention to assholes on WS who we bailed out.

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Post by ClumsyPilot »

Darmody wrote: post #81
api wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Modern surveillance capitalism is far beyond the wildest fever dreams of 90s shortwave radio conspiracy nuts.

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Absolutely would, he could not concieve of a spying machine as powerfull and pervasive as we have today

Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

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Post by apatters »

chordalkeyboard wrote: post #285
jodrellblank wrote: post #272

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This is why I hate Carlin's stuff, it's so fitting for the internet tech sites because the main point of it is jeering and sneering at people who aren't you, who aren't woke. George Carlin was a Hollywood film star with a net worth in the millions if not tens of millions. He's on stage, not working a 9-5, getting you to laugh with him at all the "idiots". It's a big club and he was in it.

I disagree, having a net worth of tens of millions doesn’t make you comparable to an oligarch. Depending on where you live, if you don’t have 30-70 million in liquid assets, you are middle class (or below).

Oh come on, there is no definition of middle class anywhere that includes someone with $29M in liquid assets.

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Post by neolog »

chordalkeyboard wrote: post #285
jodrellblank wrote: post #272

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This is why I hate Carlin's stuff, it's so fitting for the internet tech sites because the main point of it is jeering and sneering at people who aren't you, who aren't woke. George Carlin was a Hollywood film star with a net worth in the millions if not tens of millions. He's on stage, not working a 9-5, getting you to laugh with him at all the "idiots". It's a big club and he was in it.

I disagree, having a net worth of tens of millions doesn’t make you comparable to an oligarch. Depending on where you live, if you don’t have 30-70 million in liquid assets, you are middle class (or below).

In what place can you have 15 million and be middle class?
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