In a perfect world society wouldn't let anyone reach adulthood without a well rounded education to bolster them against the kind of fear based tricks the Republicans use. This is why the Republicans have been trying to dismantle public education every chance they get and cut assistance programs. Keep the people dumb, poor, and tired and they're easier to manipulate.
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You have that backwards. What taxes aren't we collecting that could be going to everyone? Why should some 40K a year guy have to pay 10% of his income as taxes and someone like Bezos doesn't?
The US used to have a 69% tax rate for the ultra wealthy before Regan took office. We should bring that back.
Correct, he was a helmsman
Completely irrelevant to the topic, but my personal head canon is that Janeway admired Worf's S1 Hair and copied it when she was given Voyager to command.
I'm not just a fan, I'm a member! (just not this account)
The U.S. government puts out travel advisories for countries, informing its citizens about the relative safety of those places.
For the really bad ones, there are dire warnings about how likely death is.
There are probably many places people shouldn't visit on the fediverse, and I think what's missing is a way of warning people that they might be stumbling into one of those places. If instances could issue "advisories" to let people know that they're about to visit a hive of shit posters and putlerbots, and flagging accounts as belonging to such hives, it would go a long way toward solving the problem.
I say this because defederation is tantamount to a travel ban, and that's a big step.
As an ex-reddit, I couldn't agree more. Fediverse is betterverse.
Yeah, that already happens. If it was compulsory, at least then people would have to think about it.
Voting should be compulsory, like jury duty.
I think this is an even better solution than making them scrap it or pay everyone some token amount.
What's wrong with "from everyone according to their ability, and to everyone according to their need?"