Greengordon
@Greengordon@spore.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago
@pluralistic

Wow, this would really cut executive pay. I love it. There’s an idea floating around called #Limitarianism, meaning we cap maximum wealth at some level like $10M and cap income, too.

We’re in a climate crisis largely due to the actions of these executives, so tax them out of existence.

"Majority of people in 40 countries want 4:1 maximum pay ratios for CEOs and their lowest-paid workers”

#TaxTheRich#EatTheRich
Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 11 hours ago

In democracies, we're told, politicians exist to reflect and enact the popular will; but the truth is, politicians' primary occupation is thwarting the will of the people, in preference to the will of a small group of wealthy, powerful people.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/07/the-people-no/#water-flowing-uphill

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Greengordon
@Greengordon@spore.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago
@pluralistic

Wow, this would really cut executive pay. I love it. There’s an idea floating around called #Limitarianism, meaning we cap maximum wealth at some level like $10M and cap income, too.

We’re in a climate crisis largely due to the actions of these executives, so tax them out of existence.

"Majority of people in 40 countries want 4:1 maximum pay ratios for CEOs and their lowest-paid workers”

#TaxTheRich#EatTheRich
tante
@tante@tldr.nettime.org  ·  activity timestamp 17 hours ago

One thing that the current exorbitant investments in "AI" show is that the investor class and big tech corporations do not pay enough taxes: If you have billions to set on fire for spicy autocomplete we should take some or all of those to do something useful with.
Greengordon
@Greengordon@spore.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 11 hours ago
@tante

Adding hashtags - where's quote toot? I thought that was coming?

#EatTheRich#TaxTheRich #capitalism#AI

"One thing that the current exorbitant investments in "AI" show is that the investor class and big tech corporations do not pay enough taxes: If you have billions to set on fire for spicy autocomplete we should take some or all of those to do something useful with."
ProPublica
@ProPublica@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Jasmin Belanger believed the deal was simple: pay off what she owed, and her landlord would let her keep her housing.

It wasn’t until months later that she learned it had left her with a permanent record of an eviction — despite there never being one.
https://www.propublica.org/article/maine-public-housing-eviction-repayment-agreements?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News#Maine#Housing#Poverty#PublicHousing#Eviction
Captainrob
@captainrob@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago
@ProPublica#MaoWasRight
#EatTheRich
Yogthos
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Glen Malley
@glen_malley@mstdn.ca  ·  activity timestamp last month

Alright, this took way longer to make than I am willing to admit. But the fact it didn't exist bugged me.
#shitpost #meme#EatTheRich#NoBillionaires#NoKings

A meme made from the classic Looney Tunes hunting season skit Bugs and Daffy pull down signs off a tree which read, respectively, "Rabbit Season" and "Duck Season". Finally, the last sign shows a caricature of a rich man and the text "Billionaire Season", and the two look off to one side evilly
A meme made from the classic Looney Tunes hunting season skit Bugs and Daffy pull down signs off a tree which read, respectively, "Rabbit Season" and "Duck Season". Finally, the last sign shows a caricature of a rich man and the text "Billionaire Season", and the two look off to one side evilly
chrisp
@chrisp@cyberplace.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week
@campuscodi The CEO of atlassian has a net worth of $12 billion (At one point $24 billion). That is all money extracted from mostly Atlassian. If we assume that even half of it was from Atlassian, that is enough to give *each* of these 150 employees $40 million. Firing this many people at once is a big fuck you to the worker class. No one deserves or needs $10 million, let alone $12,000,000,000 dollars. He literally can't spend it quickly enough yet is firing people. #eattherich
Captainrob
@captainrob@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
@dangillmor #nationalize everything. Utilities, housing, factories, farms, markets, all of it.
Take the owner class out of the picture. Then the people can work towards a way to organize it all for the benefit of all.
#endcapitalism#EatTheRich #workersunite
Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:
@markwyner@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp last month

Alright, y’all. Follow-up on this poll as promised…

Creative Commons published it. Afterward they shared their perspective on AI vs CC content. In short, “to get a sense of the various views on this question, we launched a Twitter poll where nearly half of respondents said, ‘it depends.’ We agree.”

https://creativecommons.org/2021/03/04/should-cc-licensed-content-be-used-to-train-ai-it-depends/

They made some questionable comments about it…

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#AI#ArtificialIntelligence#CC#ContentLicense #CreativeCommons#AITheft#EatTheRich
https://mas.to/@markwyner/114782533726610769