fuck no lol joining mexico is submitting yourself to the rule of cartels. Theyre super corrupt.

Californian - i want us, oregon, and washington to join canada.

WHERE DID THE COWS GO

I dont think taxing them will accomplish much. its also trivial for corporations to evade taxes, and all of the big ones do.

I think the ease of raising money is part of the problem. Loads of tech companies way over-raise, and develop into bloated cancerous messes that have no way of ever realizing the growth that would have to exist to warrant the investment theyve been given.

In the first place, the only way their investors even expect make anything back would be by reselling the stock, making it a ponzi asset.

The entire system is just propped up by peoples 401ks being funneled to institutional investors. Its inherently unstable.

Make social security good enough that middle class citizens dont need to invest, and the overinflated value of stocks plummets back to earth.

I think the people that built a company are better qualified to elect their ceo than the bulk populus. Gotta be democratically elected by workers imo, though a simple majority isnt always the best way.

answered this one here : https://lemmy.world/comment/17993835

Well, if you want to tax billionares out of existance u need a wealth tax, aka unrealized gains.

taxing unrealized gains is just going to force individuals to sell their business to liquidate the cash to pay their taxes. Institutional traders will buy them up, so youre universally taking control out of the hands of people and giving it to banks and hedgefunds, which will just end up owning eachother.

I dont think any billionares exist that made their money in some other way than selling stocks in a business they acquired at a lower value, aside from inheritance or divorce.

Maybe you do implement a wealth tax anyway though, but you do it after abolishing stocks, just to catch the loopholes.

love fairphone but i cant go bacl from graphene os. its so nice not having google attacjed to everything.

finland has a homocide rate of about 1 per 100k.
Countries are generally lower than cities, but some cities for context :

Hong Kong : 0.29
Glendale CA : 0.52
Tampere, Finland : 2.2
Arlington TX: 4.8
Los Angeles CA : 10.3
Albequerqe NM : 21.3
Washington DC : 31.85
Flint MI : 70.7
Tijuana MX : 95.9

Copyright =/= liscence, so long as they arent reproducing the inputs copyright isnt applicable to AI.

That said they should have to make sure they arent reproducing inputs. Shouldnt be hard.

Lower testosterone is probably a big part of it. Look at 23 or 24 year old enhanced bodybuilders. they look like theyre 35. For whatever reason peoples T levels have been going down about 1 percent per year for the last 50 years. Its bound to have an effect.

most electronics have lead, i think thatd be the main thing .

steal memes from other platforms

yeah japan is really cruel when it comes to sentencing