5d ago

Probably not how it works

Source: https://oslo.town/@luftvaffel/115327708667457159

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Pst. Hey kid wanna try some Linux distros!?
- I’ve got some real nice Gentoo. You’ll be compiling for days.
  
  Jeez, you can't just go straight for the hard stuff like that! You gotta ease into it with some Bazzite or somethin' first.

- "tax the rich" is a scam?
  The wealth tax typically proposed by these campaigns (like 2 or 3%) would raise money but it would not stop billionaires from getting richer. (That's why even billionaires advocate for it.)
  The finish line should not be "raise money to fund public programs."
  The finish line should be "billionaires don't exist."
  
  There literally should just be a cap. Make it something ridiculous like "billionaires are not allowed to exist, so everything you earn past $999,999,999.99 is public property" and I don't see any way how someone could disagree with this other than wanting to be a malicious parasite. That is more than enough money to buy a yacht for your yacht and is also an amount of money that cannot be legitimately obtained.
  
  Don't let perfect be the enemy of good, don't let good be the enemy of okay, and don't let okay be the enemy of "not as bad as it could be"
  Because it's starting to get as bad as it can be.
  
  The finish line should not be “raise money to fund public programs.”
  The finish line should be “billionaires don’t exist.”
  Financially speaking, helping the poor and hurting the rich are not the same thing, and it's honestly concerning when I see people prioritize the latter over the former. Eradicating poverty matters infinitely more than keeping people's net worth (which as a reminder, is just a guessed (there is no billionaire whose net worth is precisely known), hypothetical, fluctuating price tag on the stuff they own, should they decide to sell it) under some arbitrary maximum.
  And that's without even mentioning how much tax revenue is wasted on things that don't actually serve the population at large. What good is an extra $X billion in tax revenue if it's all pissed away anyway? As one example, the US government spends more per capita on healthcare than any other country, and yet we're far from #1 in most healthcare categories. How does that make sense? We're already not getting what we're paying for, fixing things like that is more important than simply increasing the amount of money going down the same wasteful hole, I think.
  
  How about putting a cap onto inheritance?
- Where's the beans?

Where's the gay flag? The programming socks? The kitty ears? Smdh
- They are united in one symbol: Tux the penguin

is that kid even wearing any beans?
it's like the artist wasn't even trying to capture our essence.
- I also don't see Taylor Swift's jet... wearing jeans.
  Oh, nvm.

Fake. There is no arch symbol.
- Btw

As someone that won't drive a car and will not encourage big oil or big car, I'm also delightfully surprised by the somewhat strong presence of "fuck cars" communities on the fediverse, and I can only approve.
- the fediverse's stance is "fuck everything about this"
  
  Fuck consumerism.
  
  funny what happens when you have a system without profit motive so people mostly just talk to other people
- It does probably help that the general spread includes people who like cars but absolutely hate modern cars and the near ubiquity of them. What I wouldn't do to fire but a single Davey Crockett payload directly at GMs HQ.

My cousin smoked a Fedi once and now he’s an addict. One time he even sold his clothes for a hit of beans

Pretty much how it works.

Where da beans at
- thank you for putting this song in my head

"Also, I run Arch now, BTW. But I might try Gentoo."
"...I've lost him."
- Fuck cars
  
  "Mom, I don't know what to do! My sweet baby boy just used the Internet for mere hours, and now he's talking about having intercourse with motor vehicles!"
  
  Abolish the commodity form

Half of these don't apply to me. I'm not necessarily anti AI, pro Palestine, or a leftist. While the fediverse is ultimately dominated by specific groups, it's still more diverse than we give it credit for.
- Here, have an upvote, I have a more leftist mindset but I'm here to exchange info and memes, rather than fight over philosophical differences.
  
  Personally I am here to fight over philosophical differences, but memes let me rest and I thank you for it.
  
  One of the reasons I stopped using Reddit was because the bots there lacked this type nuance find in real people
- And the constant politics is exhausting and difficult to squelch.
  
  That's just called living in the world
- You're not necessarily pro-Palestine? So you're not necessarily anti-Genocide?
  
  These aren't the same thing...
  
  You can be against what Israel is doing without specifically being in support of Palestine. But it's harder to explain with a short pro/anti type label.
  Palestine is a country and its possible to have a very different feeling to a government and the people.
- Aww, they're all good though.
- I don't agree with you, but glad your here regardless friend