• DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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    Skip that and tell the truth: At that point - you’re no longer human. You’re in opposition to us and there’s no option but to kill whatever trillionares are.

    They are no longer humans.

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    Why do so many people still use Twitter? Why do so many people still buy Teslas? It seems like everyone hates Elon but not enough to do even the easiest boycott ever.

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      Don’t forget that X.com is a child pornography generator.

      Also anyone opposed to all this needs to also boycott grok and anthropic (which pays spacex for compute). But you should probably avoid all ai to be safe.

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        That’s grok, which is xAI, which is now SpaceX and now a public company.

        People’s pension funds are investing in a CSAM generator.

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      A friend of mine who is a DC comics fan just purchased a Tesla. He’s rationalised everything as “but it’s a good car”. Brother, you just supported real life Lex Luthor while wearing a SuperMan T-shirt…

      In other words; there are people out there who claim pure morals while ignoring heinous and terrible things just to have an extra 100km of range. So what the CEO made decisions that will kill millions? The car now has rear door releases! Think of the safety!

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        just to have an extra 100km of range.

        Fake range. They just put a larger number on their screen.

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          I sent him an article before his purchase of the testing that was done showing most EV manufacturers were lying about the range, with Tesla being the worst. Didn’t phase him at all.

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        Last autumn I spent the day with a surveyor at work, who believed in the new world order, cancel culture, covid vaccines were controlling our minds, IMF conspiracies, etc etc. Also drove a Tesla.

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        Teslas have the worst safety ratings from every single electric car. Including the largest fail and defect numbers.

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          What you’re not taking into account is how much you can ignore with the right amount of copium. I do hope for his sake nothing goes wrong with the car but if it does he has no one to blame but himself at this point.

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    10 天前

    Man I remember when we had the first trillion dollar company not very long ago (not counting the Dutch East Indies company) and now we have a trillion dollar man. The world is so out of whack.

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      10 天前

      Kinda stands to reason. It’s the trillion dollar companies that are his assets.

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        Well yes, but most multi billion dollar companies aren’t in the hands of a single person. Which is the key here. No one person should hold such power.

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      7 billion was the projected amount it would take to end world hunger. So yes it would be very doable for the world to be a better place if the rich were simply taxed and followed the same laws as everyone else.

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        7 billion was the projected amount it would take to end world hunger.

        Lie—that was nonsense that went viral, and immediately collapsed under scrutiny. That claim was tweeted at Musk, and when he replied saying ‘explain how that would work and I’ll give you the money right now’, he got a sheepish response to the tune of ‘well actually, it would only help, not end it, and only temporarily’.

        A more recent, actual estimate, puts it closer to $93 billion. And not once, but annually.

        Stop being so gullible and falling for this sensationalized nonsense just because it confirms your biases.

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          Still seems like a pretty low number to me. The U.S. military budget request this year was 1.5 trillion dollars. Thats unusually high, but even at previous levels of 700-800 billion a year, that’s chump change to take out of the U.S. military budget yearly.

          Now if we all actually cared about world hunger 93 billion annually is a pretty small price to pay.

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          We should probably still try taxing them and not letting them commit crimes right?

          Maybe we could even solve world hunger for 1 year, like to see if it’s a good idea?

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          For those not doing the math - assuming a trillion dollars just gets dumped into a bucket labeled “world hunger” (because we as the world decide to start taxing millionaires, billionares, etc heavily), and assuming we’d need $93 million to eradicate it annually, we could eradicate world hunger for the next 10,752 years.

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              I refuse to believe it would need that much ad-infinitum. The first bunch creates a load of infrastructure, and that becomes self sustaining over the next few years.

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          CORRECT! And THATS why I’m ok NOT Taxing Billionaires! Because if we CANT Solve something RIGHT NOW we should LET KIDS DIE while letting Billionaires BUY Countries instead!

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      This reminded me of a subway take video I watched yesterday with a young lady in London. She focused on climate but I will expand.

      We have solved all the worlds major problems. We have solved homelessness. We have solved hunger. We have solved climate change.

      That is not the problem. The problem is the alternative to these things are too lucrative for people to implement.

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    Trillionaires cannot be allowed to exist. Now that there’s one, all the rest of the Sociopathic Oligarchs are going to want to be trillionaires, too, so we’ll face another round of ruthless profit squeezing to get there.

    And they’ll get even more arrogant and demanding, and when we finally deny them, they will form alliances, and start creating their own military. We will see it, and try and stop it, but MAGAs will defend them and run interference.

    They will eventually claim a landmass somehow - buy it, steal it, conquer it - and become their own financially and militarily aggressive nation, and really start throwing their weight around.

    It is absolutely imperative that we stop these mentally-ill financial hoarders. Their obsessive accumulation of money is suppressing the freedom of billions of people around the globe, and it will only get worse. They can’t control themselves, they don’t care at all about the damage they inflict, and they have no intention of slowing down. They can’t, they are MENTALLY ILL. They need medical care, not be treated like visionary business people, and they certainly should not be given even more money by the government. It’s like giving a drunk his own distillery, or handing a gambling addict his own casino.

    And billionaires already look down on millionaires. Now trillionaires are going to look down their snooty noses at mere billionaires. Millionaires are now paupers.

    The rest of us only have value as cheap slave labor, but once AI takes over, we won’t even carry value as slaves. Then we’ll just be in the way, consuming, demanding our rights, causing problems, demanding valuable things for free like food, water, air, medical care, housing, etc. We will become useless consumers of resources to people who see us as nothing more than ants, and we will be treated accordingly.

    It is INEVITABLE.

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      While I do believe they’ll form an alliance the deal is that those cuts will turn on eachother as soon as it benefits them on the shortest of terms. A society of sociopaths will not last

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        Yeah they all think they’re the main character in the room, basically all very rich people do. Any co-operating is just not going to work out long-term

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    Man, I thought Musk was obnoxious before, but now we will have to start saying “billionaires and trillionaires” instead of just “billionaires”. Maybe “Epstein class” sums it up?

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    Remember he is only this wealthy because other people are willing to buy a share of his money losing company at a highly inflated price.