Garbage regulations like IP create these behemoths. If you want freedom, stop regulating monopolies into existence.

"Please protect us from child-harm lawsuits since child harm is pretty much our business model."

Did you miss my second to last sentence entirely?

Perhaps you could crawl out of your side-bias and recognize that BOTH OF THEM ARE SHIT.

Are they REALLY missing the point? Or are YOU missing the point?

Those unrealized gains are good enough to borrow from, so they are good enough to tax. The simplest method is to tax the money as it is being loaned. Everyone agrees on the value then.

So what? There are millions of people within the USA that have never, and will never, own a fucking home. Let it all burn until we can learn to organize a society where people who are willing to work are treated fairly. What exists now is essentially slavery but without all the responsibilities of maintaining the slaves. Fuck that noise. That is no way to live. If you think what I am saying is unreasonable, that is only because of the social status of your parents.

If the value is certain enough to borrow from, it is certain enough to tax. Lies and deception should no longer be tolerated.

That is not the way it works. You pay taxes, the government (doesn't matter which level) assigns a contract to a buddy's company, kickbacks happen to the politicians who greenlighted it, and something hopefully gets done with the remaining value of your taxes.

Well, if they can borrow against that unrealized wealth, they can be taxed on that unrealized wealth. Fair is fair.

Oh look, more evidence of the ideological capture of slashdot.
A call to murder the president, +5 informative.

I mean you guys have tried what, 4x now? It's always ultimately about murder when the leftist nursery school doesn't get its way.

Statism creates billionaires.

"too many" being once.

"the American rightâ(TM)s hostility to democracy" you say?
Do tell.

So if we're talking sides, which "side"
- invaded social media spaces, and then emplaced high level government agents within the relevant companies SPECIFICALLY to guide "public conversations" in the directions they prefer?
- pushed for vote-from-home, the most beautifully-crafted system if one wanted fraudulent voting?
- pushed for electronic voting, again simplifying and enabling large scale fraud?
- manipulated information, media, reporting and hid any information that called into question the mandated "It came from bats" COVID theory? And then worked hard to kill/hide the fact that the US actually funded gof work at the lab it seemed to come from?
- spent years telling us how far apart from each other we were allowed to stand?

I don't think Trump and his crew of morons is any better, but the idea that one side is better than the other is laughable.

Some would agree that yes, what was going on was inexcusable.

You "You used an AI"
(provides actual source)
You "I don't like that source"
Also you: I'm disingenuous as fuck.

There are plenty of cities in western countries where drones are entirely prohibited and you need to drive to the countryside to fly it, observing various nature reserves and restricted airspaces.

It is also very common that training, a test or license, insurance, etc. are required.

The odd thing is that buying is restricted. Does that include ordering online?

While I'm sure we all appreciate the ä宣éf's opinion, lying about gross economic statistics and manipulating currency is fundamentally non-capitalist.

I'm not going to disagree with you that Western governments have done so themselves sometimes (for example, the US unstated policy for at least 50 years after WW2 was to keep the USD overly strong as an 'invisible subsidy' to our western economic partners, making their manufactured goods more price competitive; US consumers got cheap goods, foreign economies got to build their factories and economies), but China's economic manipulations are ceaseless and utterly one-sided.