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Caroline Casey@cacasey.bsky.social |
taxes
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bIivet
@issabailot.bsky.social
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Cannibalism?
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Caroline Casey@cacasey.bsky.social |
taxes
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bIivet
@issabailot.bsky.social
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Cannibalism?
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Michael vs. 2024
@thepmann.bsky.social
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"What choice do we have but to kowtow to the whims of the richest among us?" Anything. Literally anything else.
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@prairieguy2623.bsky.social
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Joel Pelletier 🍩
@joelpelletier.bsky.social
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Majority rule with minority rights (and progressive taxes)
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Silphium
@infinitejeff.bsky.social
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Brian Wooley
@brianwooley.bsky.social
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Next question.
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@bunshonokai.bsky.social
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Every charity is a social failure
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Kate Tuttle
@katekilla.bsky.social
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It's so simple, guys.
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Cynthia Gómez
@cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social
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Collective ownership of the means of production.
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Simply Ed
@gojira65.bsky.social
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Thankfully, most of the commenters had the same response. The NYT is losing its base.
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Horace V. Wigglesworth
@wiggler.bsky.social
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"Oooh! I know this one! Pick me, pick me!"
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Hector Coronado
@hectorcoronado.bsky.social
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Your argument’s elegance and succinctness: outstanding!
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wildmonkeysects™
@wildmonkeysects.bsky.social
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Defective Altruism.
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Madame Decadent Sneezy-Bottom
@darklyadapted.bsky.social
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Nationalisation of public services.
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I've got a dad back
@dadback.bsky.social
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If I saw EA people spending time and doing work that ran counter to their own interests, I'd be less likely to believe it ia just another post-hoc justification for "I'm rich so I do what I want"
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Tim [redacted]
@timredacted.bsky.social
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Community?
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Daniel Feldman
@dfeldman.bsky.social
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Ineffective greed
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David
@daverino.bsky.social
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👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Everything is Public Health
@everythingisph.bsky.social
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Silicon Valley loves to reinvent things into a worse capitalistic version
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guy
@guyjin.bsky.social
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But we keep electing people who spend that money to make the rich even richer
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Bill Jank
@billjank.bsky.social
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Yes. Confiscatory taxes to break up our new feudal lords.
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Joe Dunman
@joedunman.bsky.social
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Our media writes as if it is still the Gilded Age and the New Deal never happened.
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Kate Armstrong
@brainchain.bsky.social
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And to be specific… a global Tobin Tax on hedged investments.
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codehappy lives!
@codehappy.bsky.social
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"Scientology is flawed. But what's the alternative?"
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Paula Schaap
@redsonja.bsky.social
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Yeah, I had trouble reading past the first sentence.
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Terraformer
@terraformer.bsky.social
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"....no, that's not what I was asking for"
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J.J.
@jjfromkansas.bsky.social
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This might be the best one-word response to a stupid question I'll see all year.
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Yabos McGee
@yabosmcgee.bsky.social
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When people say journalism isn't dying, shit like this should pop up in their replies automatically.
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EarthMachine
@terramachina.bsky.social
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This has tech bros reinventing public transportation vibes.
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Seth Sanders
@nabalkattu.bsky.social
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not being a giant rich baby
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Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸
@belalugosisdad.bsky.social
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Can I interest you in some expropriation without compensation?
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Alex Merz
@merz.bsky.social
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Specifically, progressive tax codes.
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Brian Smith
@ambientrelish.bsky.social
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Took me way less than 7 minutes to read that
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Wagatwe Wanjuki
@wagatwe.com
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literally anything else
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Quatrain Gleam
@quatraingleam.bsky.social
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precisely
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Arash Mohebbi
@thatoldbear.bsky.social
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BRUTAL TAXES, like "5mil in personal fortune is more than enough for you" brutal.
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Duncan McLaren
@duncanmclaren.bsky.social
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Thanks for saving seven minutes of my life!
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SkyIce
@skyice.bsky.social
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Yeah, and how much altruism is also just taxes? What is the difference between giving 10% to the government or 10% to your church for them to run a soup kitchen? Besides the fact that if the minister in charge is caught pinching he can't say it's a blessing from God if he's with the government.
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Bastian Mueller
@bastimuell.bsky.social
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It would be an interesting question if the overall amount of money to be distributed would increase? Because people are more interested to give up wealth, if they can dedicate it to a purpose they care about, rather than making a voluntary extra tax payment.
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Bastian Mueller
@bastimuell.bsky.social
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I’d agree if there would be a gov department dedicated to taking calculated risks and doing R&D on innovations with a potential social or ecological benefit. Philanthropy is not only EA, and also can take risks, which public offices aren’t good at.
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Baj Mihal
@bajmihal.bsky.social
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prison
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Covariant
@covariant.bsky.social
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"flawed" is a odd way of spelling "a billionaire circle jerk"
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eschneider
@eschneider.bsky.social
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After reading the article, the most charitable take one can make is that Peter Coy is a profoundly stupid person.
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Potomatic
@onbluskysku.bsky.social
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Actual altruism? Doing your best? Mindblowing I know
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WildGorillaMan
@wildgorillaman.bsky.social
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It’s weird how many philosophies greedy dudes come up with land on “me having all the money and getting lots of sex is for the greater good of society”
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Seentoomuch
@seentoomuch.bsky.social
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I just want to yell "Ovious answer is obvious!" at the guy who wrote that.
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ricky cilantro
@rickycilantro.bsky.social
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Tren
@trenlau.bsky.social
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This guy is going to lose his mind when he learns about the thousands of years of philosophy and economic theory he missed
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Nich Hills
@nichhills.bsky.social
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Effective Autism?
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Joe Beck
@calicodad.bsky.social
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Your restraint is admirable
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John Burns
@zemto.bsky.social
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Is voting for a tax increase altruism or long-term thinking?
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power to the ice pick (Liz)
@pluplubasch.bsky.social
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And then spending them properly rather than on cops and military!
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Pyrito Hedron
@pyritohedron.bsky.social
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Interesting take, but consider that - as a public thought crafter - I can make a steady living writing pieces that presume: what if not taxes?
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Deva Woodly
@devawo.bsky.social
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It’s really not complicated.
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@jasonst.bsky.social
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Tax them, get money out of politics, make lobbying illegal, make amicus briefs illegal, and make politicians across the board divest from public holdings. Civil servants, in public offices, shouldn't have the right to profit from their civil service beyond their salary.
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Jon Luke vintage meme trust
@paperbagriker.fun
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Why does there need to be an alternative? What problem is EA even solving?
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Stephanie J. Lahey PhD
@sjlahey.bsky.social
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🎯
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Ken Raining
@kenraining.bsky.social
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Seven second read
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Methane Mamba
@methanemamba.bsky.social
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Effective altruism basically allows the rich to become Gods where us poors have to beg them for basic needs like healthcare. Its the crux of the whole Mr Beast curing blindness fiasco that rightoids worked to deliberately obfuscate.
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Santa Melanie dell'Orazione e Morte xx 🏳️⚧️
@meladyfreshness.bsky.social
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👏👏👏
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𝐡𝐢𝐦𝐲𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐢𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐯𝐞
@himynameisdave.bsky.social
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ineffective allfalseism
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Red Lori Bright Eyes
@redloribrighteyes.bsky.social
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not being an asshole w resources
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Estarianne
@estarianne.bsky.social
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Imagine if rich people's egos weren't involved in the decision for whether people got housing and healthcare.
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🏳️⚧️☀️ Queerest Tea-Addicted Horse on the Internet 🇵🇸 🏴✴️
@queerhorse.bsky.social
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Kindness without expectation of return on investment
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Jon the Red
@crosstownpubliclibrary.neocities.org
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no, see, you gotta start the bargaining with "systematically putting all the rich to death" so that they then compromise down into "taxes"...or you just start shooting, either or
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Kygosi
@kygosi.bsky.social
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Right right, but what else
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jace cavacini
@dysamoria.com
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Why is it so hard for the people in charge to imagine the people with the most money paying the most into our society 🙄🤦🏽♂️ Oh right: they're the ones in charge.
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Godspeed You! Woke Moralists
@dashwallkick.bsky.social
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(after getting brain damage and believing taxation is theft) there's just no other alternative!
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jesse
@jesseltaylor.bsky.social
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but can you come up with a solution that gets rich people praise from thought leaders
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@jiminnh.bsky.social
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Is this Herbert Hoover's grandson or something?
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Teeg Dougland
@arobertbitter.bsky.social
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Anything but.
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Toasty
@toastyraptor.bsky.social
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Effective Altruism is just a butchering of socialistic views with a weird "we know better" twist. 😂
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King Bee 📯
@k1ngb33.bsky.social
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We could device a system where the hungriest get the most and call it capitalism 🤔
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Tim
@teejaykay.bsky.social
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It really stinks that “effective altruism” has now come to mean “weird billionaire whims.” When done right, it’s about donating to causes like anti-malaria bed nets, cheap yet highly effective medicines, and animal welfare, all of which do incredible amounts of good in the world.
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Daniel Goldman
@dgoldman.bsky.social
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Extortion?
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Stephen Nuñez
@socio-steve.bsky.social
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Democratic accountability is also an acceptable answer.
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Nick Garcia
@nwgarcia.bsky.social
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I like how the implication is it's just an itty bitty flaw, and not "Psychopathic billionaires spend money on whatever crackpot idea they think is best for society and we're all supposed to pretend they're right."
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@dmlundeen.bsky.social
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Or in SBF’s case, prison. Taking away the excess money of rich people who have no clue how to spend it and do immense damage when they try to make things better is a good first step. (Gates and Buffett and Mackenzie ex-Bezos are pretty good, the rest . . .)
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Torr Leonard 🧵
@torrleonard.bsky.social
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The words “tax” and “government” are not used a single time in that piece…
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Falanx, son of Fenix
@falanxzealot.bsky.social
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*MMT and Billionaire Soylent Green
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LurkyMcLurk
@lurkymclurk.bsky.social
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Taxes, unions and the guillotine, same as it ever was
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Lost Squishy
@lostsquishy.bsky.social
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RIGHT?! For flip's sake just make everyone (including corps) pay taxes!
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Patrick Hardy
@patrickdhardy.bsky.social
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John OH, JUST THE CRIMES Keynes
@bnr-keynes.bsky.social
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damn at least give a brother more than two syllables when you dismantle his worldview he worked hard on that ideology
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@ianbobmorris.bsky.social
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taxes and well regulated charities
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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️🌈
@chimeracoder.bsky.social
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I was going to say communism, but that works too
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Matt Stefon
@mattstefonpoems.bsky.social
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And an actually engaged citizenry that more fully partakes in government at all levels.
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Karl Guzzman
@karlguzzman.bsky.social
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The usual answer is that government is corrupt, but it is elected by citizens, which is not the case for billionaires. That's a significant step up.
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@jpshipley.bsky.social
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but what if I suddenly become a billionaire? checkmate, libs
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Helen/Tina/Boob Punch
@tinavstammy.bsky.social
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*nods* Progressive taxation: the One Weird Trick that really works
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Arno Schmidt
@arnoschmidt.bsky.social
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That's how we do it over here in Europe....and it works.
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Jeffrey Ellis
@jeffreyellis.ca
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Basic human empathy?
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Mary Ann Dimand
@maryanndimand.bsky.social
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We are in world that desperately needs to learn the essence of public goods and services but is Far Too Smart to listen to Dumb Economics.
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Arcane Mundane
@wabisabihobo.bsky.social
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"Taxes, taxes, taxes. All the rest is bullshit in my opinion." ~ Rutger Bregman
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Eastern Tony
@easterntony.bsky.social
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"Don't be Coy" was never truer
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🏳️⚧️ Millennial Horniness is Not a Crime
@josie.zone
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Yes
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Kevin Kretsch
@drkevguitar.bsky.social
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Yes, taxes, but also normalize giving money to people who need it with no weird conditions.
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Tommy
@tommyg.bsky.social
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Correct
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Gina
@ginatb2.bsky.social
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Specifically, #TaxTheRich
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Dakki Reads
@dakkireads.bsky.social
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"Well, trusting the rich did nothing, and we have tried nothing else, so we're calling it."
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Casmilus
@casmilus.bsky.social
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Ineffective egoism.
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🦬 AudeS, Wrath Month is upon thee
@audes.bsky.social
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Oblivion tax: Billionaires need to pay taxes until they no longer are billionaires.
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Charles EP Murphy
@cepmurphy.bsky.social
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Pundit: "Effective Altruism Is Flawed. But What's The Alternative?" Chief Judge Fargo:
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