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If someone predicted 10 years ago what Big Tech did in the last years, they would have been labeled conspiracy theorist.
If anyone thought that big tech wouldn't do this 10 years ago they were naive. Big is they key word. Big everything does the same thing. Which is why we need to not let anything get big.
Note that I'm not necessarily disagreeing.
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> it's deplatforming, using AWS as a weapon against smaller voices. I can't see this ending well. This, so much - imagine you believe "they" stole the election, "they" got your favorite social media shut down (parler/gab/whatever), "they" blocked the buying of options, "they" then liquidated your position as the price predictably fail and you got margin called, you complained but "they" got your feedback deleted. Ouc…
In all of these cases ‘They’ were within their rights.
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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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"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.
Do you think when he says things like "Takes the cake. Ya know, say 'Boy he really takes the cake'...Where? Where do ya take a cake? to the movies?" That he's exposing his own ignorance of idioms?
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How do you define "fake review"? People are not happy with a company and its app and they are "punishing" the company, what is the purpose of reviews if not this?
A fake review would be a review left by someone who is not a real user or customer. Thats almost impossible for google to work out but they would make it an aim to get as close as possible. You want to try to avoid the mob jumping in on the reviews of something they never used because of some bad news.
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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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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?