Pst. Hey kid wanna try some Linux distros!?
this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2025
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I’ve got some real nice Gentoo. You’ll be compiling for days.
Jeez, you can't just go straight for the hard stuff like that! You gotta ease into it with some Bazzite or somethin' first.
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The wealth tax typically proposed by these campaigns (like 2 or 3%) would raise money but it would not stop billionaires from getting richer. (That's why even billionaires advocate for it.)
The finish line should not be "raise money to fund public programs."
The finish line should be "billionaires don't exist."
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good, don't let good be the enemy of okay, and don't let okay be the enemy of "not as bad as it could be"
Because it's starting to get as bad as it can be.
Agreed.
Pass what you can pass.
But don't let that be the finish line.
Support everything that is an improvement.
There literally should just be a cap. Make it something ridiculous like "billionaires are not allowed to exist, so everything you earn past $999,999,999.99 is public property" and I don't see any way how someone could disagree with this other than wanting to be a malicious parasite. That is more than enough money to buy a yacht for your yacht and is also an amount of money that cannot be legitimately obtained.
Just reinstate 1950s top marginal rates. Then have a drink after a job well done.
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I've always liked the idea of the cap being an immediate loss of any legal property protection.
This would not be through any process, they simply instantly legally cease to have any property rights anytime they cannot prove their net worth is below the limit.
Any member of the public can reclaim any piexe of their ex-property, until the not-quite-billiomaire gets a court ruling confirming their not-a-billionaire status.
Then the not-yet-billionaires can figure out how to constantly stay comfortably below the limit.
Or...they can file an updated wealth disclosure every time they attempt to keep anyone from walking away with any piece of their former property.
If they want to avoid the inconvenience of their yachts, cars, pets, plants, fences, lamps, and television sets being repossessed, they can negotiate with their employees unions for collective ownership in good faith, instead.
It'll be fun to see how many of them are too stupid to take a good deal, and lose their stupid toys.
Oh, so we put the bar at proving a negative? Easy peasy.
The finish line should not be “raise money to fund public programs.”
The finish line should be “billionaires don’t exist.”
Financially speaking, helping the poor and hurting the rich are not the same thing, and it's honestly concerning when I see people prioritize the latter over the former. Eradicating poverty matters infinitely more than keeping people's net worth (which as a reminder, is just a guessed (there is no billionaire whose net worth is precisely known), hypothetical, fluctuating price tag on the stuff they own, should they decide to sell it) under some arbitrary maximum.
And that's without even mentioning how much tax revenue is wasted on things that don't actually serve the population at large. What good is an extra $X billion in tax revenue if it's all pissed away anyway? As one example, the US government spends more per capita on healthcare than any other country, and yet we're far from #1 in most healthcare categories. How does that make sense? We're already not getting what we're paying for, fixing things like that is more important than simply increasing the amount of money going down the same wasteful hole, I think.
Edit: That argument is just "trickle down economics" with extra steps.
I disagree.
Billionaires have outsize influence. They buy politicians to set public policies that affect the working class and divert billions of our dollars into their pockets.
If you put all of their money in a pit and set it on fire, it would have a greater impact than just taxing them 2% and spending all of it on public programs, because they would no longer be able to do harm on a billionaire scale.
The people could heal.
We'd still have other beasts to deal with, but the existence of billionaires is a cap on the lives of the working class.
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Where's the beans?
Where's the gay flag? The programming socks? The kitty ears? Smdh
They are united in one symbol: Tux the penguin
is that kid even wearing any beans?
it's like the artist wasn't even trying to capture our essence.
I also don't see Taylor Swift's jet... wearing jeans.
Oh, nvm.
As someone that won't drive a car and will not encourage big oil or big car, I'm also delightfully surprised by the somewhat strong presence of "fuck cars" communities on the fediverse, and I can only approve.
the fediverse's stance is "fuck everything about this"
Fuck consumerism.
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Pretty much how it works.
"Also, I run Arch now, BTW. But I might try Gentoo."
"...I've lost him."
Fuck cars
"Mom, I don't know what to do! My sweet baby boy just used the Internet for mere hours, and now he's talking about having intercourse with motor vehicles!"
Half of these don't apply to me. I'm not necessarily anti AI, pro Palestine, or a leftist. While the fediverse is ultimately dominated by specific groups, it's still more diverse than we give it credit for.
Here, have an upvote, I have a more leftist mindset but I'm here to exchange info and memes, rather than fight over philosophical differences.
Personally I am here to fight over philosophical differences, but memes let me rest and I thank you for it.
Ok fuck you then, Heidegger.
/J/k
<3
One of the reasons I stopped using Reddit was because the bots there lacked this type nuance find in real people
And the constant politics is exhausting and difficult to squelch.
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False. The last frame should have said "I have ADHD" cause I feel that shit in my bones.
Way she goes, lady. Way she goes.
It's true!! It happened to me and you could be next!!
Clearly not radicalized enough if he is willing to let the rich live to be taxed
Literally me
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