Phoenixz

Fully agreed

It’s time we put the words assholes in the spotlight

We have the Razzie awards too to counter the Oscars, so left have awards for the pedophiles, the war mongerers, the mentally deficient with money, the most vile beings

Trump, of course, would win first prize in just about all categories to start, but y’know, there is room for others

I have notes!

That (depending on the country) all politicians continuously lie and that were sort of okay with that. We shouldn’t, and at the very first lie they should be called out, hard, and three strikes, you’re out

That we have political parties where everyone has to do what the party says. I’d rather have all independent politicians, vote for those

That many democracies call themselves democracies yet they use the first past the post system and their politica have moved to the point where you wonder if it’s still democracy

What companies have such a disproportionate amount of power. Companies should, in the end, exist for the people. The people should ALWAYS go before companies

That politicians can be in charge of something without having the slightest clue what that subject is. You should be an expert in the field to get a field. That also goes for IT, by the way. Fuck, so many politicians are so dumb and tech illiterate yet have to vote about tech.

That the rich still exist. Im fiine with capitalism, it works well to generate wealth which COULD be for everyone but people seem to be okay with the rich and ultra rich? I want to see hard cap limits on personal and company wealth. Anything, income, gifts, whatever, that goes over that limit goes 100% straight to taxes. Below that limit we need 10-20 more brackets, where the lowest incomes pay barely or no taxes at all as they likely can’t. The highest will pay on the 90% range and the next bracket is 100.

That politicians (mostly US politicians though, it’s a hobby there) can pass laws that are called “protect the children from pedophiles” while when you looked into the law, its “yeah, show us all your chats and the real pedophiles will find other ways to communicate anyways so this won’t stop shit, law”. Especially the US has a hand of this where almost any law these days has a pretty acronym like S.H.I.E.L.D. or something and in reality, for it’s content, it should be names C.H.I.L.D.K.I.L.L.E.R.

That lobbyists are allowed to exist. Yeah, I get it, but no. I think that lobbyists are. Any negative for society as companies abuse the shit out of them. Maybe if companies aren’t allowed to have lobbyists, and are limited in size and power, maybe we could allow lobbyists ONLY for foundations that support vulnerable groups or entities

Same for companies, but limit it to 1 billion or so and 1000 employees max. Need more employees for a mega project that requires multiple companies to work together. Instead of one trillion dollar company, I want a million million dollar companies

Then, we don’t mix alcohol and wine and tequila, we all know it ends in shit yet somehow most people still think it’s okay to mix religion into politics as if that’s a great thing. Fuck religions. If you have one, sorry, but you’re believing at the level of a 5 year old that Santa is real. Politicians should all be atheist as far as I’m concerned

Never?

When you’re dead?

I’ve seen 70-80 year olds get degrees

I find it funny to watch these countries having issues with people not wanting to have babies.

There are core reasons behind this, one large one being “raising a child is expensive and all the world’s money is being sucked up by billionaires, there is nothing left for children”. Another one (for certain countries like Japan and South Korea) is the “work 80 hours a week and never see that family you’re supposed to raise”

And governments go like “sooooo, if we cover child birth, you’re good, right? What? Still nothing? We tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas, how oh how can we solve this?”

Fuck the rich, end the rich. That will get births back to a healthy 2.1

How the fuck did people flvote for that?.did they really already forget?

He’s in part a symptom of a problem that is making the problem worse

You mean those things that Republicans always whine about when some law comes on place that is good for everyone?

Yeah those van go fuck themselves

Is it me or is the Cheetos purposely driving the US into a civil war? Like, I would immediately believe it of evidence shows up that trump was paid by Putin to kill the US, but the more and more o see him doing this shit, I really believe he’s purposely trying to wreck that shit hole country

Sort of

I still love open source software and tinkering and building my own software

Anything closed source can go pound a bag of dicks

Also US:

Why is our tourism dead? Why does nobody want to visit our shit hole country anymore?

according to a report that argues global inequality has reached such extremes that ugrgent action ha.cms become essential.

I guarantee you that that 0.001% agrees, there are too many of them, that should be 0.00001% instead

Fuck the rich!

I call for hard limits on personal networth and the worth of companies

No single person should be able to control more than 10M, companies shouldn’t be worth over 1 billion

Anything over that, goes to taxes.

It’s a single basic rule that requires more rules below for sure to ensure it works well, but this should be codified in a world wide constitution.

This way, nobody gets crazy amounts of money, nobody will have to be poor because the government will have a huge income that it can use for universal healthcare, education, universal basic income, etc…

Crime would go down the drain because nobody NEEDS to be a criminal anymore. There will still be a few anti social elements but good luck finding people wanting that life if they can just have a good, safe, and happy life.

Bribery and corruption? How even, and why take the risk?

There is no logical reason why anyone should have to be allowed to control this much wealth.

Investment companies must all be dismantled and all their funds transferred to independent non profit organisations that, again, won’t be able to control more than over a billion. Government can transfer money to these foundations so that loads of people can have investments for startups or whatnot

We’d need similar simple rules for governments too. All governments must be democracies, and all should follow a world constitution where we have a few basic rules that make sure nobody will ever get too much power.

It doesn’t require a lot of changes at the top. Basically these three rules, all the rest flows out of those rules. We can keep capitalism and use it’s raw power to generate resources for everyone.

What this needs is political will, this needs people to want this, need this.

That is the problem though, isn’t it?

We’re at a point that AI is shoved hard in everything and your mother, yet actual useful applications for AI barely get any attention.

It’s all about the useless and criminal like chat bots, nudifier apps, and the hilarious claims that AI really can do software development

It’s all pushed by lying psychopaths who convince empty headed politicians (seriously, we need a required IQ test or something for people who want to become politician) to invest billions in their bubble balloons.

Those billions are them used to build new datacenters that nobody wants and which destroy the environment in all sorts of creative ways

This is not a tool used wrong. This is somebody inventing guns and now everybody wants to shoot those guns at everything and your mother.

If tomorrow AI and the knowledge we have about it would completely disappear from the world, it would be a better place.

None of that seems very hard

Find other people and invest with a group. You’ll end up with loads of companies with lots of small shareholders. If your shares become worth souch that you go over the 10M, you’ll have to sell some or have some taxes for taxes.

Maybe have governments fund independent investment foundations that can help setup startups

This isn’t even a utopia, it’s literally current capitalism with a small set of core rules added that will make a huge difference between now and how it could be.

It could be that nobody has to be poor anymore. Governments will have huge incomes so loads of money for socialist projects like free education and healthcare and housing.

The few problems I’ve seen mentioned so far, to me, are literally details that follow from the core rules.

Nobody can be worth more than X (and for now, say that X is 10M) and companies cannot be worth more than Y (let’s say 1 billion dollars). Both values can be +/- 5% if you hover at the limit, that doesn’t really matter much. What does matter is that we’re now finally all equal and still have capitalism as the core engine, allowing for all the freedoms we have today

I believe it’s just mental illness

Family guy

And? A crime boss wannabe committed crimes!

You don’t say!

Oh come on, you don’t really believe that Nazi shit, do you? That is beyond transparent and dumb and … FFS, it just pisses me off that people can be THAT dumb.

And you still call a multi year wat a “special operation”? I thought even Putin stopped calling it that, too obviously bullshit, but apparently there are still IQs out there measured i shoe sizes.

That the thought entered your head is one thing, but that it left your mouth (well fingers) is just shamefully stupid.

You want companies to stop supporting and using your shitty standard? Because that is how you get customers ntonstop using your standard and by extension, your companies

I meant to say 100%. After, say, 10 million, 100% goes to tax

For retirement, everyone gets a pension from the government.

I don’t care if some people are slightly richer than other, almost nobody does, but for centuries now we’ve permitted insane levels of riches, that has got to stop

No they don’t, it’s a really REALLY bad idea.

Think about it. If you win, you will win a nuclear hell scape that will cost you huge amounts of money to control and maintain, awesome!