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[thread] cars, privacy

Cars Are Worst Product Category Ever Reviewed for Privacy
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37401563

  • all 25 car brands researched
  • worst product category ever reviewed
  • all collect personal data
  • 84% share or sell your data
  • 92% give little/no control over personal data
  • Tesla only 2nd product ever reviewed to receive all of privacy “dings”

persagen,
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m/w

U.S. stocks higher: Tesla soars on AI optimism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kXR9rFny7s
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/futures-advance-after-dull-week-gains-tesla-2023-09-11

Elon Musk, $269.3 billion USD Net Worth 2023-09-11 up $17.9B; #1 in world
https://www.forbes.com/profile/elon-musk/?list=rtb%2F&sh=3a2342bf7999

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Wealth

  • Musk draws most wealth (75%) f. Tesla
  • Musk took Giving Pledge, 2012
  • Musk Foundation criticized for trivial wealth donations
  • 2020 Forbes gave Musk philanthropy score of 1: given away <1% of net worth

persagen,
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Elon Musk, $269.3 billion USD net worth 2023-09-11 up $17.9B; #1 in world
https://www.forbes.com/profile/elon-musk/?list=rtb%2F&sh=2da5720d7999

To put that in perspective: if Musk spent $1 million/day

$269,000,000,000 / ($1,000,000/day) = 269,000 days
269,000 days / (365.25 days/year) = 736.481 years

2023 A.D. - 736 = 1287 A.D.

So, spend $1M/day starting 1287 A.D. would run out this year, 2023.

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[thread] Poverty industrial complex | demonization, criminalization of homelessness

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_industrial_complex

  • outsourcing of social services to private corporations

See also:
Prison industrial complex: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110589789454470156
Medical Industrial Complex: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110674187440549205

Pacific Prosperity Network | Cicero Institute
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110873929767684022

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persagen, to socialism
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[thread] Billionaires, existential risk from

Billionaires Are Existential Risk
Whether it is moral to allow billionaires to exist
The real question is whether our species can survive billionaires
https://jacobin.com/2023/09/climate-crisis-artificial-intelligence-existential-risk-billionaires-capitalism

https://persagen.com >> search: billionaires AND existential

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[thread] oligarchy

Oligarchs Don't Just Want to Be Rich But Kill Democracy
Why powerful & wealthiest think your ability to vote is dangerous
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/oligarchs-against-democracy

  • investigative report tells how morbidly rich families, their companies, & their personal foundations are funding efforts to limit/restrict democracy across U.S.

persagen,
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Addendum 5

Peter Thiel Startup Plotting Libertarian Paradise
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/praxis-society-city-dryden-brown-peter-thiel/

  • free-market Mediterranean city-state
  • CEO interested in fascism/occultism; touted book arguing Black people intellectually inferior
  • Praxis: https://www.cityofpraxis.com

Tech Bros Plot Autonomous City
https://www.curbed.com/article/inside-the-peter-thielbacked-praxis.html

https://persagen.com >> search: "peter thiel"

#PraxisSociety #Praxis #PeterThiel #DefundBillionaires #meritocracy #plutocracy #whiteSupremicism #BLM #WealthConcentration

persagen,
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Addendum 6

Elon Musk, $269.3 billion USD net worth 2023-09-11 up $17.9B; #1 in world
https://www.forbes.com/profile/elon-musk/?list=rtb%2F&sh=2da5720d7999
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/111049243450567496

If Musk spent $1 million/day:

  • $269,000,000,000 / ($1,000,000/day) = 269,000 days
  • 269,000 days / (365.25 days/year) = 736.481 years
  • 2023 A.D. - 736 = 1287 A.D.

persagen,
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Addendum 7

Economists, Millionaires, Elected Officials to G20: Tax Extreme Wealth
"Accumulation of extreme wealth by world's richest individuals has become an economic, ecological, human rights disaster"
https://inequality.org/research/g20-tax-extreme-wealth

Open letter: G20 Leaders must tax extreme wealth
https://taxextremewealth.com

persagen,
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Addendum 8

Billionaires Cash In On Abusive Farm Worker Scam
To staff agricultural properties, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, other tycoons use controversial visa program linked to labor abuses, human trafficking
https://www.levernews.com/billionaires-cash-in-on-abusive-farm-worker-scam

rbreich, to random
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Put on your shades and grab your picket signs because it's a Hot Labor Summer.

Here's why thousands of workers are on strike.

https://youtu.be/ICa18qrRjnE

mnutty,

@rbreich

Good piece emphasizing why actions are becoming more frequent.

A major challenge of our time is to address the unconscionable which has resulted in poor wage growth and super empowered a select few who frequently destabilize host democracies.

Their fight, Our fight!

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