Mintyytea

@Mintyytea@kbin.social

Is there any more ethical solution to our current circumstances than "murder all billionaires"?

Not that I'm particularly against that - quite the opposite, in fact. But I'm wondering if anyone sees, or had seen a path to social and climate recovery/progress that could occur without first eradicating the class of people who most enjoy the present status quo.

Silverseren,

Return the tax rate for the uppermost bracket to what it was before 1981 when Reagan screwed us all over. That rate is 70%, by the by.

50gp,

we also really need measures to stop large companies from buying up all their competition and slowly turning into trillion $ megacorps that own every brand in existence

j4k3,
@j4k3@lemmy.world avatar

Japan solved the overpaid corporate culture nonsense. Australia has the most wealth equality, without the parasitic billionaire problem. The solutions have existed for a long time.

The real issue in the USA is the lack of effective legislation. There is no political accountability. This is all due to a two party system. All it takes to fix the USA is outlawing gerrymandering, rejecting the electoral college, and institute tiered voting where everyone votes for the candidates based upon their preferred priority order. Popular votes is the only Democratic method. Representative republics are a corruption of democracy that was a necessity with the travel and communication limitations of 300 years ago but not now. Voting for candidates by priority would make party affiliation nearly meaningless and force accountability and substance because the difference between candidates would drastically decrease. It would eliminate the polarized nonsense that all the billionaires want. It isn’t about the ridiculous nonsense, it is about ensuring very little productive legislation is possible. No laws means do anything you want. The US has a tenth of the laws and protections of any other western country.

Xeelee,
Xeelee avatar

That's exactly right. The advocates of capitalism like to sing the praises of the free markets. But in many fields, especially in the media and tech, there is no such thing as a free market. Just a bunch of oligopolies that use corruption to maintain their position. Microsoft, Google, Meta, for instance, should all be broken up. Same with banks. If it's too big to fail, it's too big to exist.

LPT: ChatGPT is incredible for generating and evaluating regex

I have to use a ton of regex in my new job (plz save me), and I use ChatGPT for all of it. My job would be 10x harder if it wasn’t for ChatGPT. It provides extremely detailed examples and warns you of situations where the regex may not perform as expected. Seriously, try it out.

NeverDaunted,

I believe this is the post that opened Pandora’s bean can:

sh.itjust.works/post/715364

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