• JCreazy
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    7 months ago

    If corporations cared more about people and less about money this may just work.

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      7 months ago

      Until there is no longer a massive bill to start a company this is a pipe dream. Who’s name is the mortgage under is all you have to ask before the model breaks down…

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      7 months ago

      I believe AI will lead to more competition which will drive prices down for industries that require far fewer actual people. When an opportunity to make money presents itself, competition will thrive.

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        7 months ago

        Selling to whom?

        We talk about workers and customers and tax payers like they’re all different sets of people. They’re not.

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          so, workers and taxpayers are separate people, taxpayer is coded language for capitalist, because any time people mention taxpayer it’s always in relations to things concerning almost exclusively the rich

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              7 months ago

              I can’t access the USA Today article, sadly, but I can tell you how you got hoodwinked by the literal rich people think tank that is Taxfoundation, whose purpose is to try and fight taxation on the rich.

              they obscure and heavily cherry-pick the datapoints they present, no, they actually did not state that “The top 50% of taxpayers pay in 97.7% of the total taxes in the US”, they said that “The top 50% of Income taxpayers pay in 97.7% of the total taxes in the US”, something that makes sense when you understand that almost half the nation earns below the poverty line and tax credits literally make them not have to pay taxes.

              Secondly, it also completely ignores money you make outside income, stuff like the whole unrealized gains backing functionally zero interest loans, meaning that the wealthy aren’t even on that list to begin with

              also, coded language doesn’t have anything to do with reality, that’s why it’s coded language, people seldom speak what they mean, especially those tasked with sellin’ you their snake oil.