| ▲ | kingstnap 4 hours ago |
| What AI really seems to be posed to do is make labour a lot less valuable and capital a lot more valuable. Running a government requires a lot of cash flow. I think its sort of inevitable that it's going to need to start coming mostly from the later and not the former. |
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| ▲ | smallmancontrov 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| We've moved all the money into the capital economy and all the taxes into the labor economy and the well is running dry. There's nothing to be done! |
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| ▲ | NuclearPM 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | More tax cuts to the rich. | | |
| ▲ | smallmancontrov 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Oh my god I can just FEEL the growth! It's going to trickle down any second now! Any second! | | |
| ▲ | graphime 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > Oh my god I can just FEEL the growth! It's going to trickle down any second now! Any second! Your 401k/pension’s passive index ETF at Vanguard, Fidelity, Schwab definitely went up in value. There’s your trickle down. | | |
| ▲ | smallmancontrov 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Capital pays you for being rich in proportion to how rich you are. Elon can't hide behind my 401k, he doesn't fit. Also: most Americans and most people are far poorer than you and I and get paid even less for being rich than you and I. | |
| ▲ | aceki 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | wow, pennies on the dollar and yet there’s a trillionaire | | |
| ▲ | graphime 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | > wow, pennies on the dollar and yet there’s a trillionaire You want whole dollars? Says who? You? Perhaps you should inform your elected government representatives. |
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| ▲ | YZF 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | How about this trend? https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-population-in-extre... There is growth, it might not be where you are, or it might be superimposed with other effects for you. | | |
| ▲ | smallmancontrov 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Selfishness is a sin for me but a virtue for billionaires lobbying away the last shreds of tax they are embarrassed to pay? I see how it is. |
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| ▲ | outside1234 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Have you not looked at Elon's bank account? WINNING* * via government subsidies |
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| ▲ | jMyles 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > Running a government requires a lot of cash flow. I think its sort of inevitable that it's going to need to start coming mostly from the later and not the former. Why presume that "running a government" is inevitable at all? How much longer do we think these states of old are going to putter on for? |
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| ▲ | chongli 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Governments are inevitable. Even when you look at so-called "lawless places" or "failed states", you'll find governments: de-facto governments run by warlords and criminals. Nature abhors a vacuum and that principle extends to power vacuums. |
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