Merit should always consider strictly value.

The $5K a year just gives you a $300 per person per visit discount. So pays itself back in 15 visits or so.

Plenty of us nerds can afford this and want to see news about this.

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

Statism creates billionaires.

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.

Democracy is for retards.

Government did this. All of this. Government regulated so much that only a rare few can afford to compete.

This is late stage statism. Retard voters are to blame.

Like you.

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.

Nutrition and pleasurable sense data. Share and enjoy!

> unrealized gains

If the uncertain value of unrealized gains bother you, I'm more than happy to let people pay in natura. Instead of 1% of the value of your Tesla stock, I'd give you the option to just hand over 1% of your Tesla stock. Instead of 1% of the value of your mansion, you may at your discretion give a lien of 1% of the price if and when it's sold. All the "concerns" about gains being unrealized are addressed, and we get some good pricing information as a bonus.

I always was fond of the joke about the solar probe that only flew at night to protect it against the sun.

I looked it up and there is only about 20% overhead from the error correction in the signal. For a signal that weak I would have expected a lot more.

Or only let it fly during the day.