Comment Re:LOL (Score 1) 79
They'll ban you for expressing forbidden opinions. Opinions that are extremely fucking common outside of Reddit.
LK
They'll ban you for expressing forbidden opinions. Opinions that are extremely fucking common outside of Reddit.
LK
I was auto suspended because I quoted a 30 year old statement supporting the rights of gays and lesbians that made reference to "LGB communities". I was accused of Trans erasure or some other stupid bullshit.
I hope the stock price falls low enough for Elon Musk to buy it for a song.
LK
A lot of armchair strategizing here seems to be based on the theory "he won't dare to do that back!"
Remember Deepmind was poaching elite talent left and right for a decade. It can't very well just plod along without these people. They're probably the least commodified of any of us.
I'm sure Google has been careful about that for just as long, doing their best to make them identify with management/owners rather than each other as workers. Not least with stock options.
I also suspect the union is a poor fit for these workers - "communication workers" are often call center employees IME, and all honor to them, but their concerns are almost certainly not the concerns of superstar googlers who just don't want to build the torment nexus.
If you think of taxes as "confiscation", then it seems to me it's taxes you object to.
You'll always have the choice to pay tax on the market valuation of your shares.
It's only if you think that valuation is inflated, you can choose to turn over the shares instead.
Hell, why not throw in a third option? Sell tax% of them on the open market yourself, and your tax is what you made from that.
Maybe come up with a fourth option too? Feel free. Maybe something to do with options? I'll be flexible, and allay your concerns about "unrealized gains" in whatever way you think is needed - except not taxing them. Wealth needs to be taxed, otherwise no social institution (including constitutions) can be trusted to endure.
So you admit it's really just taxes you object to, that they're unrealized is just a convenient excuse.
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