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      Yes but proportionally, if you let it just run, it will generate less surveillance total than what we were already doing and going to do worse.

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    “His point being: you need to meticulously comb through everything that someone owns to properly tax their riches. And AI surveillance, he says, makes this not only possible but practical.”

    Let’s say this guy is worth $18.5 billion and the IRS only taxes him on 10 billion because that’s what they found. That’s still $10 billion worth of new taxable income or at least It’s at least 10 billion getting taxed at a higher percent.

    He’s acting like this has never been done before or like more jobs can’t be created to do this.

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      And they get to surveil the surveillance. That way it will be fair.

      How is this different from communism again they said?

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    Clearly the world might need to explore other options to deal with the billionaire problem.

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        Now, I dont believe in the death penalty. But I make an exception for these monsters.

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        Imagine how many people, worldwide, would not hesitate a second given the opportunity.

        If we could all just get all such people together somehow and join forces, baby, I think they’d have a fiesta going!

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      Yo I have some very solid ideas for a business plan, like, if we can get a few woodworkers and metal smithing guys and some steel sharpening guys we could automate the FUCK out of this

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    this guy helped Israel genocide Gaza, thats all he should ever be known for

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    Karp can his neo-Nazi buddy, Musk, and fly towards Mars with enough fuel and provisions for a one-way trip. F-him.

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      That site is just Flock.

      The level of personal tracking is absurd.

      There’s a reason the supermarket wants you to use their app for “digital coupons”. There’s a reason they want you to scan inside the store.

      As an added bonus, big-box retail has a natural immunity to external RF, which forces you to use their wifi, which can track you down to your position in a specific aisle, how much time you spend there, your path around the store, etc.

      And then when you’re done, they know exactly what you bought because it’s linked to your store card (which is naturally linked to the app, which is tracking you around the store).

      They know what cuts of meat you like just as much as they know what kind of fungal infection you have.

      They know (roughly) what you decided not to get just as well as they know what you did get

      They know how much time you spent calculating the best deal on paper towels (the planograms have been updated to reflect this…items that people spend a lot of time contemplating are no longer facing each other in the aisle…they are always on the same side of the aisle…you won’t find PT opposite TP, you won’t find dog food opposite cat food, etc…they can track your position in the aisle but not which way you face).

      And that data is more valuable than the profits on the goods in your cart.

      Just as one example.

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    well then that means you should support wealth tax?

    I mean this guy is seriously the CEO of one of the largest tech companies on Earth. He sees that people hate surveillance and then thinks that by flaunting even more surveillance threats he can obscure the connection between surveillance and rich people, lol. He is like the Trump of the tech world, a text book sociopath.

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      I want to be very clear that I am NOT endorsing violence toward billionaires.

      I am merely pointing out that I fully believe that it will happen, and that I have read a history book, and I know about 1789 France.

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        I am endorsing violence against billionaires. We should make billionaires non-existent even if that means wielding violence as they do against the working class.

        Billionaires are a global problem. With the ability to be anywhere in the world they want to be at any time, fucking up economies, corrupting governments, and more.
        We should deal with them when and where we can, especially since our governments have proven susceptible to their corruption.

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        Do you know about the Bourgeoisie and the Aristocracy? Did the people fight for democracy or did the Bourgeoisie use the people to replace the Aristocracy with themselves?

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          So how do the people use the aristocracy to replace the bourgeoisie with themselves? There’s got to be some way!

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            How about the people have to select the best among them and let the best figure lt out in a public discussion?

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      Uhh that just gives the government more money for surveillance. You’ll get your surveillance either way, don’tcha worry.

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        Not necessarily. You tax these fuckers into the ground, and now they can’t pay to influence government like they do now. So we get back to an actual “of the people, by the people, for the people” government. Which means if the people don’t want surveillance, then it doesn’t happen.

        Frankly, I trust a government minus corruption 10000x more than any profit driven corporation.

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    how can humans be said to be advancing when we allow clear liabilities like this person to flourish?

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    “People shouldn’t be allowed to buy elections”

    “Well maybe you shouldn’t have that chair! Did you ever think of that?”

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    It’s him, it’s a threat, he’ll do it to recoup the money he’s paying in taxes.

    Scumbag needs a lesson