Wealth taxes represent the end of private property.
Essentially, previously in history all property belonged to the king, who essentially lent out his things and could revoke ownership on his pleasure.
Over time, cracks begin to form such as the nobility asking for guarantees that their children would inherit. Leave slowly became the basis of private property.
Private property ended up incidentally becoming the basis for human rights as we conceive of them today. The claim was made that an individual has a property right to themselves, and thus has certain inalienable rights through that ownership of themselves.
Thus, the slow erosion of property rights is the slow erosion of the global order back to feudalism. We all serve at the pleasure of the king, and the King May revoke his charter at any time.
One major counter argument is that it only affects the rich. The income tax was only supposed to affect the rich. How does it feel being rich, Walmart cashier?
Essentially, previously in history all property belonged to the king, who essentially lent out his things and could revoke ownership on his pleasure.
Over time, cracks begin to form such as the nobility asking for guarantees that their children would inherit. Leave slowly became the basis of private property.
Private property ended up incidentally becoming the basis for human rights as we conceive of them today. The claim was made that an individual has a property right to themselves, and thus has certain inalienable rights through that ownership of themselves.
Thus, the slow erosion of property rights is the slow erosion of the global order back to feudalism. We all serve at the pleasure of the king, and the King May revoke his charter at any time.
One major counter argument is that it only affects the rich. The income tax was only supposed to affect the rich. How does it feel being rich, Walmart cashier?
Seems to me like if you can't handle having the document proving you were born, then perhaps you shouldn't be voting regardless.
I just heard there's people cancelling nitro subscriptions on discord.
I never understood why anyone would pay for nitro on discord. They're like the dread pirate Roberts meets a used car salesman. "Please buy nitro. I'll probably ban you tomorrow."
I never understood why anyone would pay for nitro on discord. They're like the dread pirate Roberts meets a used car salesman. "Please buy nitro. I'll probably ban you tomorrow."
Technology Connections gets so stupid retarded when it comes to these things, it actually makes me mad.
"Oh, a battery can be refilled many times!" so can a fuel tank, jackass. And unlike a battery, a fuel tank doesn't need to be replaced in 20 years.
I figured that to store enough energy to convert the US to renewables you'd need about 3 days storage, minimum. To do that, you'd need to create thousands of warehouses filled with batteries, several times more lithium ion batteries than mankind has produced to date, and a several year monopoly on humankind's entire lithium generation capacity (and they need to be replaced). Meanwhile, several times that amount of energy is kept in the US strategic petroleum reserve in a really cool cave someone found. When people point to battery plants, it's like saying you bought a pack of AA batteries "so we don't need to plug the tesla in". It's so trivial it doesn't even count.
"Oh, the sun is free and I'm cheap!" the sun was free back when the pants that died and became oil were growing too, jackass. It isn't free for us to use. Just ask the people in Australia and California.
"Don't worry, I'm not saying you have to give up your oil and gas powered things" no, you're just going to condescendingly act like you found a perpetual motion machine because your pocket calculator never needs a battery, and that we're the idiots for not realizing your brilliance. Jackass.
Jeez. You'd think a guy from Chicago would know better, if only for the long dark cold nights. Maybe he should try practicing what he preaches, and he can be a broke, frozen, dead jackass with a bunch of expensive magic environmentalism boxes on the roof of his house that just got a natural gas furnace installed after the new owners fix all the frozen pipes that burst.
"Oh, a battery can be refilled many times!" so can a fuel tank, jackass. And unlike a battery, a fuel tank doesn't need to be replaced in 20 years.
I figured that to store enough energy to convert the US to renewables you'd need about 3 days storage, minimum. To do that, you'd need to create thousands of warehouses filled with batteries, several times more lithium ion batteries than mankind has produced to date, and a several year monopoly on humankind's entire lithium generation capacity (and they need to be replaced). Meanwhile, several times that amount of energy is kept in the US strategic petroleum reserve in a really cool cave someone found. When people point to battery plants, it's like saying you bought a pack of AA batteries "so we don't need to plug the tesla in". It's so trivial it doesn't even count.
"Oh, the sun is free and I'm cheap!" the sun was free back when the pants that died and became oil were growing too, jackass. It isn't free for us to use. Just ask the people in Australia and California.
"Don't worry, I'm not saying you have to give up your oil and gas powered things" no, you're just going to condescendingly act like you found a perpetual motion machine because your pocket calculator never needs a battery, and that we're the idiots for not realizing your brilliance. Jackass.
Jeez. You'd think a guy from Chicago would know better, if only for the long dark cold nights. Maybe he should try practicing what he preaches, and he can be a broke, frozen, dead jackass with a bunch of expensive magic environmentalism boxes on the roof of his house that just got a natural gas furnace installed after the new owners fix all the frozen pipes that burst.
Trump, eh?
Why did Trump seize the truckers bank accounts in canada? Why does Trump arrest tens of thousands of people for speaking out on political issues in the UK?
Curse you, Trump!
Why did Trump seize the truckers bank accounts in canada? Why does Trump arrest tens of thousands of people for speaking out on political issues in the UK?
Curse you, Trump!
To honor NoFX putting out an album about how much they agree with the bilionaires and world leaders who tell them what to think, I present this AI slop, a 100% corporate AI approved punk song.
AI is pretty good at playing the 4 cords required for this brand of punk.
AI is pretty good at playing the 4 cords required for this brand of punk.
wow amazing that this punk group released an album saying exactly what every establishment figure in a dozen countries is saying so they can get their way.
Very punk. "We will do as we are told, we will speak the words we're told to speak, please daddy step on me harder"
Very punk. "We will do as we are told, we will speak the words we're told to speak, please daddy step on me harder"
There's already a legal construct called parents, instead of giving more power to the state, that particularly legal contract should be exercising it's sovereign power.
We are not the property of the state. The state is not our mother or our father.
We are not the property of the state. The state is not our mother or our father.
I've talked a lot about it before, there are a lot of people who go to places like blue sky, and they weren't happy on X and even if they get everything that they ask for they're not happy on Blue sky.
On the other hand, with a fraction of the apparent users, the fediverse is so fun and vibrant. For the most part, the people are who are here want to be here because it's not easy compared to big Tech.
The fact that we are also starting to get sites like minds and protocols like nostr means the userbase is plenty robust to have fun.
And never will there be a shadowban or a suspension from the entire fediverse because that's not how it's architected.
On the other hand, with a fraction of the apparent users, the fediverse is so fun and vibrant. For the most part, the people are who are here want to be here because it's not easy compared to big Tech.
The fact that we are also starting to get sites like minds and protocols like nostr means the userbase is plenty robust to have fun.
And never will there be a shadowban or a suspension from the entire fediverse because that's not how it's architected.
Damnit, you're right.
My next book is all about how seemingly contradictory things can be true at once, why wouldn't these two contradictory things fit that?
My next book is all about how seemingly contradictory things can be true at once, why wouldn't these two contradictory things fit that?
tbh, I do, I'm making a criticism of people who try to pretend the only way you can be high class is by having a higher number so we should pay attention solely to the people with high numbers instead of stuff that matters.
Making the argument in the same backhanded style you are, saying it out loud so it becomes clear how silly it is when you say it out loud.
Making the argument in the same backhanded style you are, saying it out loud so it becomes clear how silly it is when you say it out loud.
Also class is only how much money you have pay no attention to powerful people if they hide their money better or just get the state to do everything for them so their number can be artificially low.
When I saw the Americans going to sanction India while the Europeans went to open up trade to india, it all really fits.
They just want the Americans to sit down and shut up and keep sending military hardware wherever they tell them to. It's part of the post-fascist European state, they need to pretend that they're pacifist, and they do that they get the Americans to do all the ugly bits of diplomacy.
They just want the Americans to sit down and shut up and keep sending military hardware wherever they tell them to. It's part of the post-fascist European state, they need to pretend that they're pacifist, and they do that they get the Americans to do all the ugly bits of diplomacy.