trailing9 @ trailing9 @lemmy.ml

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Billionaires are not the main problem. You only have a people's court when the plebs are united. When the plebs are united, votes can change politics.

Blaming billionaires makes people wait for a revolution instead of taking responsibility right now.

You know that there won't be a revolution.

Both sides are right. Every argument comes from a true emotional desire. Every exchange of arguments can be 'won' by recognizing the need of the other person and finding common ground.

Musk wants to create a super app like WeChat. He needs credit cards first. He is turning Twitter into his old X.

It's the Apple app ecosystem without people willing to hand over credit card information for iTunes music. Apple won the mobile phone market because they had customers willing to pay for apps.

You look at it backwards. It's 'watch ads to avoid paying'.

Paying is the default way to buy something.

Remember that politics can be changed with votes. Tax them to finance change.

It's difficult, but blaming billionaires takes away our agency.

Who would pledge 10% of their income to distribute as basic income? There is no need to wait until politicians implement it. We can start immediately.

There are no heights in the hamster wheel.

As if victim blaming is always wrong.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Sisyphus by Albert Camus

A question for experts on Marxist theory.:

If work wasn't alienated, would people want to work more than 40 hours or be happy when working 40 hours?

Dimensions of alienated labor

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation

You call it flaw, I call it obstacle.

If you look outside the US, you can get housing for a price that leaves enough of the 4000 for other expenses.

The easiest option is to connect some barren land to a city center with public transport in a climate zone that doesn't need much insulation. But that just as a proof of concept. More clever options can be realized.

Is it letting go of fear or finding confidence and self which overwrites fear?

Right. That's why I wrote 'lists'.

Linux distributions come neither with no programs nor all programs by default.

Let people choose a distribution on sign-up. It's a bit like choosing an instance but it should be possible to create iconic defaults that make the choice easy.

People live off one dollar per day.

The most expensive part is medical insurance. That has to come down to international standards. 300 dollars a month should be enough.

You need food from a central kitchen, about 1 dollar per day.

That leaves 4000 dollars for rent, clothing, phone and other expenses.

Right, they are a monopoly until there is competition. That's OK. You tax them higher until it becomes profitable for a competitor. That's not 'out of business', just high enough.

But you can also accept the monopoly if the offer is transparent and good enough.

The colluding is a problem. It is the problem. It's unavoidable. In every system there is corruption. This cannot be solved but has to be dealt with case by case.

Check the top hour filter of all instances. That's where other content surfaces.

There should be default curated lists so that new users don't have to know the platform before it can be enjoyed.

Well Actually not enough. Debate things till the end and know what is right.

We need some form of wiki to manage those debates so that we only have them once.

Link your end with the start. The top earners don't have the income to finance it.

My point is not that UBI should be a tax on the rich but that regular citizens can finance it right now if they want it.

You hope that UBI comes for free. It won't. The majority has to pay it with higher taxes, voluntarily or not. So if they want it then don't wait for politicians but implement it right now.

That's where you have to tax monopolies.

Monopolies will resist but it takes only some expropriations to motivate shareholders that they push for law-abiding behavior.