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Comment Re:first step... (Score 1) 32

It's not though. But if it were, that's solvable through reforms initiated with democratic representation. Assuming the people of the nation actually care enough to run their own government. Of course that only occurs when people actually have power and representation. Perhaps that can be solved by removing a class of people with more money than everyone else and who are getting much more "representation" than the average.

Comment Re:One silly law causes problems (Score 1) 57

Should this requirement apply to autonomous vehicles equipped with sensors that would prevent it from hitting a pedestrian when reversing?

Until they are infallible, yes.

the city should have banned charging stations in these locations via zoning before one was built there

Life is chock-full of "should haves", alas. Instead of each new project being better than the ones before, many people and organizations seem to think they know everything when they should have learned from others. I'm quite sure someone else had figured this out already.

Comment Re:who is reaping the benefits of living crisis? (Score 2) 32

Elon Musk doesn't eat 2000x what you eat, his vacations and housing isn't 1000x yours. He took nearly every penny from Zip2 and invested in what would become paypal. He then took most of that money and invested it in Tesla (and a little in SpaceX and some other ventures). If you had a magic wand to turn his and every Billionaire in the USA's wealth (5.7T) into consumption that would cover the US federal deficit for almost 3 years. But you would also lose all the means of production those people owned. All the jobs they employ.

I agree with a lot what you said but this is a false choice. Those jobs, those companies and that capital doesn't dispensary when Elon Musk is'nt a billionaire and only is still a very wealthy man. Even using him as an example. The $44B for Twitter, did he take the majority or even a plurality of his own wealth to do it? No, he went out and found investors and took out loans against his wealth (which are tax loopholes) who then funded that. Same with all his ventures and really any billionaire, it's one of those -isms of wealth, you always use someone else's money.

If instead you had 1000 millionaires instead of a single billionaire, they all invest their money, the capital is available. What you are describing is just "Great man theory" and some variant of Randian objectivism, not any type of economic reality. Billionaires themselves are not the problem itself but they are a symptom of an economic rot that requires correction.

Part of what boomers were born into was the post war "golden age of capitalism" in the US when marginal tax rates had very high rates at the top end, pensions were the standard for large employers, home ownership and construction was expanded and this was all during a time of intense government spending still on the sciences, research, etc.

This is what the boomers undid starting in the 1980's, instead of taking the continuing exploding productivity and capital technology created and investing in infrastructure, social services, education, human capital and research they enacted tax breaks, de-regulation and as you mentioned, protectionary measures for their own wealth.

Comment Re: One silly law causes problems (Score 1) 57

I'm not reading the code rn but I would assume the volume is mandated. It's got to be over a certain level to be considered audible to people with hearing disabilities. We had one on our RV as it used to be a bus, I disabled it. I will probably put it on a switch at some point though

Comment first step... (Score 1) 32

Figure out who is reaping the benefits from the cost of living crisis facing the UK, US, CA, and others.

Close or nationalise their harmful "business" and get average people back on track to prosperity and improving the quality of life for each successive generation. Because not doing that is dumb, it's a path straight to revolution.

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