Actually, nobody should be dragged out into the streets and shot. Not even the oligarchy. Apart from that, it would not change anything, because the culture that grew them would just grow new ones.
Last time I checked, communism failed pretty much the same capitalism does.
I wouldn't be quite so sure about tribes never being victim to tyranny. But in a tribe, people have a much better chance to still see each other.
The golden plates at the voyager probes are great PR, no more. That's how mankind would like to be. They show none of the suffering that characterizes earth.
To close the loop: Why shouldn't we shoot the billionaires? Because that would screw up our own life. Unless you were sick in your mind, you would think about having ended someone's life for a really long time. And that's how we differ from the non-sentient part of nature. Well, most of us, at least.
Given the greed and abuse of health insurance companies, I get your point. Still, likely much suffering was created among relatives. Did it prevent larger suffering among insured customers? Did anything change at all?
I honestly think that if the government applied the same laws to billionaires as it does to us ordinary people, then Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg would be in jail (did you hear the one about Instagram feeding underage kids' profiles to known pedophiles for clicks?).
As long as this doesn't change, as long as I'm paying 27% income tax while billionaire Bernard Arnaud is paying 1%, this sentiment will stand.
But don't worry, it's just a sentiment: I'm being facetious. I'm won't kill anybody yet - unless Zuckerberg shows up at my Jiujitsu class, then maybe I won't hear him tap and keep the choke on for a while, so he can think about how he's destroyed the social fabric of our society while he struggles to get out of my Mata León ;-)
Laws are not about justice, but they are a tool of power. That is international. I don't like that, you don't like that, yet it is a fact.
The argument about income tax is popular, but things are not that easy. Typically their assets are not directly owned. Technically, they are relatively poor, and taxed accordingly. They share that situation with company owners. Tax them by the estimated value increase of the company and they have to shrink the company in order to pay taxes. Germany does that with ETFs: You have to pay taxes on fictional capital gains on your retirement savings. That is what the "tax the rich" talk got us. But hey, we officially only have freedom of opinion and not freedom of speech, acknowledged by the highest court. So I better shut up.
You can't solve social problems with technology. The issue is greed and abuse from a lack of ethics. Nothing has changed since Aristotle. "Peace fighters" are a contradiction in terms and violence was often tried in history, but never led to anything good. If ~300 million people in the USA stood up and yelled at Zuckerberg to go away, something may change. But most of them would just love to be in his position and then act the same. That is the actual issue.
He's been touting "self-driving taxis in 5 years" for the last 15 years. He's a snake oil salesman: great, brilliant even, at raising capital and convincing investors to give him money for projects he rarely delivers.
Where do we sign up?
You get the CEO of Spotify, hahaha
Actually, nobody should be dragged out into the streets and shot. Not even the oligarchy. Apart from that, it would not change anything, because the culture that grew them would just grow new ones.
Last time I checked, communism failed pretty much the same capitalism does.
I wouldn't be quite so sure about tribes never being victim to tyranny. But in a tribe, people have a much better chance to still see each other.
The golden plates at the voyager probes are great PR, no more. That's how mankind would like to be. They show none of the suffering that characterizes earth.
To close the loop: Why shouldn't we shoot the billionaires? Because that would screw up our own life. Unless you were sick in your mind, you would think about having ended someone's life for a really long time. And that's how we differ from the non-sentient part of nature. Well, most of us, at least.
Free Luigi!
Given the greed and abuse of health insurance companies, I get your point. Still, likely much suffering was created among relatives. Did it prevent larger suffering among insured customers? Did anything change at all?
I honestly think that if the government applied the same laws to billionaires as it does to us ordinary people, then Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg would be in jail (did you hear the one about Instagram feeding underage kids' profiles to known pedophiles for clicks?).
As long as this doesn't change, as long as I'm paying 27% income tax while billionaire Bernard Arnaud is paying 1%, this sentiment will stand.
But don't worry, it's just a sentiment: I'm being facetious. I'm won't kill anybody yet - unless Zuckerberg shows up at my Jiujitsu class, then maybe I won't hear him tap and keep the choke on for a while, so he can think about how he's destroyed the social fabric of our society while he struggles to get out of my Mata León ;-)
Cheers
Laws are not about justice, but they are a tool of power. That is international. I don't like that, you don't like that, yet it is a fact.
The argument about income tax is popular, but things are not that easy. Typically their assets are not directly owned. Technically, they are relatively poor, and taxed accordingly. They share that situation with company owners. Tax them by the estimated value increase of the company and they have to shrink the company in order to pay taxes. Germany does that with ETFs: You have to pay taxes on fictional capital gains on your retirement savings. That is what the "tax the rich" talk got us. But hey, we officially only have freedom of opinion and not freedom of speech, acknowledged by the highest court. So I better shut up.
You can't solve social problems with technology. The issue is greed and abuse from a lack of ethics. Nothing has changed since Aristotle. "Peace fighters" are a contradiction in terms and violence was often tried in history, but never led to anything good. If ~300 million people in the USA stood up and yelled at Zuckerberg to go away, something may change. But most of them would just love to be in his position and then act the same. That is the actual issue.
I don't necessarily disagree with your take.
Excellent … liked the hyperloop thing … the Guy is proposing a shitty versión of parís Metro 1 and Metro 14
He's been touting "self-driving taxis in 5 years" for the last 15 years. He's a snake oil salesman: great, brilliant even, at raising capital and convincing investors to give him money for projects he rarely delivers.
That's supposed to be our genius?
He is a self diagnosed autist and his geniusisness is stated in an autobiography… agreed he is a snake oil salesman 2.0 … clever , but far from genius