Adding to the chorus: switched to Linux. No regrets. Plays all my video games, watches my media, does my coding and office work.

That’s a clever hack around how people are stupid and dislike change, any change, even good change.

They’re going to be meeting in person at the same time and place?

It’s not a double standard. They have one standard: hierarchy. People higher on the hierarchy can do what they want. Everyone lower has to obey. But they can shit on the people under them.

That’s it. That explains it all.

Trump can do what he wants because he’s the king. Men can abuse women because men are above women. White women can abuse black anyone, because whites are above blacks.

That’s the only rule.

This also explains why they don’t want nationalized health care, public transit, or other things that benefit everyone: because then lower tier people would get the same stuff. They would rather die so long as their “lessers” are worse off.

Do not listen to their explanations. They are lying.

That sounds right. There’s a chunk of the population that just have broken brains and souls. They’ll follow their king to the grave.

Humans are emotional creatures. We’re stupid that way. It’s faster to just go with feelings and accurate enough that it must have been a pro survival trait.

But it’s stupid. It’s destroying the world because people follow their emotions into conservative policies.

I hope he’s never heard from again.

It sucks for everyone but the people in charge are too stupid or apathetic to change anything.

I applied to an internal role like 2 months ago and they’re just ghosting me. Like, I see them on teams. I send them follow up messages. Nothing. Bunch of AI brained assholes.

They’re not trying to make a good product. They’re trying to get their short term gains.

Normal capitalist bullshit where a handful of people (who probably don’t even do any work) make decisions and keep almost all the profits.

This is a joke, right?

Right. Traffic enforcement that’s “random” is fundamentally unjust. But conservatives like it because they can bully the out-groups, and some assholes like it because it brings money in via fines.

First of all, “there’s no money for this” coming from the federal government is a lie, on any topic. They just don’t want to, and take advantage of people not knowing how money works. There’s always money for bombs, but for schools and social services not so much.

Second of all, as others have said, capping social security payments per year is stupid. It should be progressive. The first $x don’t get taxed at all, then higher rates as your income goes high.

Third, it shouldn’t be tied to your personal contributions. We live in a society, despite what anti social conservative monsters say.

In-groups to protect, out-groups to bind. Hierarchy. That’s conservatism.

They don’t see the contradiction because to them there is none. Men get medicine because they’re in-group. Women don’t because they’re out-group. The rule is applied consistently. No hypocrisy.

You cannot engage them by attacking their hypocrisy. They don’t care. It’s like if someone said you’re a bad person because the colors of your clothing aren’t alphabetical top to bottom. That’s just like… Nonsense. Not a factor.

You need to either get them to see more people as in-group (see: people who became less virulently homophobic or racist when they actually make a friend of that category), or you need to utterly humiliate their in-group. It’s all emotions. They’re stupid.

I am concerned about how we don’t have 20 million deaths mostly because trump and his goons are stupid, not because they don’t want to do mass murder.

You seem to have imagined a link between

This has to end, nobody is worth that much. Even if they were, they shouldn’t have that much, because nobody needs that much.

And

Billionaires are a symptom of a society that is sick.

as if they were trying to say that the people in the articles are billionaires. That’s illusionary. There’s a full stop.

This

will never be reasonable that some people make hundreds of times what other make on a full time job.

Was the point. That some are only millionaires is irrelevant. Billionaire is a subtype of “too rich” used as an example.

No fundamental facts are in error.

Billionaires are a subcategory of people with too much money.

But also what’s your point here? Just pedentry? Defending CEO wealth at this 614:1 ratio? Defending billionaires right to exist?

The initial goal post was “This has to end, nobody is worth that much.”, referring to CEOs making 614 times more than workers. Their wealth being in billions or millions was not mentioned. The goal post was not moved.

The sequence as I understand it is

• no one needs that much money
• billionaires have more than that much money. They don’t need it.
• you: none of the ceos are billionaires
• me: fine, but they still don’t need that much money.

If anything, you pointing out that the CEOs aren’t billionaires is a distraction from the point.

Anyone who looks at their phone while driving should lose their phone, vehicle, and license.

You can live a comfortable life with $5 million in the bank. No one needs $17m a year.