If he pays his fair share of taxes... He would likely still own everything he owns but wouldn't have as many 0's adorning the big important number in his bank account. Just devestating to see someone forced to pay their fair share, lol
If you own an apartment in New York and don’t live there full-time, you’re taxed. If your heirs inherit assets in New York, they’re taxed at thresholds that now reach the upper middle class. The logical extension of this trajectory — and the question the entire private aviation industry should be asking — is: what about the $70 million jet you landed at Teterboro this morning?
It's very interesting to see just how out of touch they are. You can even see him trying to appeal to non-billionaires by making it sound like he actually gives a fuck about them. "Omg, you're inheriting a million dollar property? How will you handle the taxes?!? 😱" Then quickly pivots to a more familiar scenario to people in his echelon: "what if I have to pay a fair tax on this ridiculous lifestyle I'm living?!?
How many tools require millions of gallons of water to and require such unbelievably massive amounts of electricity to operate? Do they take 100,000s of square feet with infrastructure? Generate massive amounts of noise and waste?
Anytime i see a link to that article, i like to click over and take another look at that house. I like to think of it as doing my part keeping the Streisand effect strong.
They shared a perspective i hadn't considered: all the AI involvement in the workplace, the constant surveillance, the rigid hierarchies--it all serves as ways to acquaint people with authoritarianism.
I mean, it isn't illegal to treat workers with suspicion and malice -- and frankly, they can always leave! (Same could be said for citizens, on second thought...)
If all the businesses decide they want to run that way (or if all the businesses get absorbed by 2-3 mega-corporations and they decide to treat workers that way), it's within their rights to. Hell, we've been discovering for quite some time that businesses may even operate illegally until found out, and even then it's often not enough to stop them -- it simply becomes an operating expense.
Isn't it interesting that the richest people in the world are allied with each other politically? At least here in this shithole we call the USA, we now get to witness enthusiastic levels of corruption, and every major corp with their shitty, billionaire leader is there getting their slice of pie.
The authoritarianism begins in the workplace (and schools!) where people become conditioned to the hierarchy, then ultimately get dominated by the authoritarian government that they themselves somehow voted for.
I think that's part of the trouble with trying to take down something this big. It has to be done systematically because it is dense with governmental machinations and pure scale. They have to find all the weak spots and then work out how to dismantle them. You'd think it could be done much quicker but there are scores of incompetent people doing the work coupled with fairly large tasks to accomplish. The gears move slowly, even as it's being destroyed.
I think another part of the problem is human resilience and adaptability. We somehow manage to keep saying "This is fine" while the house is on fire because we aren't personally feeling the heat yet (and by the time we do, it'll be too late). But we have nowhere else to go and the fire is way bigger than any of us can manage individually. Even if we manage to put it out, all we'll have left is the burnt wreckage--if there's anything left at all. Some are blissfully unaware that there's even a fire going on, some are pouring gas on it and everything in between.
So i guess it could have been done a lot more quickly and efficiently but the fact that Trump is at the helm means there's a level of incompetence baked into the operation that will inevitably lead to delays in the schedule of something like a fascist takeover.
That's the only market they care about anymore, as far as i can tell. Companies would rather try to sell 10 $1,000 items than 100 $100 items. Understandable in certain respects, but the brunt of the equation lands on the less well-heeled consumers...
They can vote now, as well--as long as they live in that one state where all the corporations reside. This shit is so stupid