Real estate is 13.7% GDP, finance and insurance 8.7%, healthcare 7.5%, info/tech 5.7%, utilities and mining 3% - rentier capitalism is roughly 40% of the US economy. George held land value as the only worthwhile…
So, free if you're a VC? Funny how China leads in most tech areas now. Turns out letting monopoly capital control your government policy leads to short term gains at the expense of long term viability. Maybe the VCs can…
US corporations have always had these kinds of relationships with foreign governments. If a given government won't accept bribes the CIA will work to overthrow them, financing and puppeting "democratic" groups to that…
The fact is this political system of ours is heavily balanced in favor of those with the endless budgets and resources to spend engaging in "democratic" avenues of influence.
I hope one day they learn to inhabit their position more confidently instead of merely aping their competitors.
Paving the way for further stripping the populace of their rights.
The regulatory capture begins.
It's always going to be too hard as long as companies aren't held accountable.
Those Russian propagandists. Lucky the US doesn't engage in propaganda.
People are too afraid to challenge their billionaire bosses, so they go after immigrants, because immigrants seem like easy targets. It's basic human cowardice underneath.
Seems like regulation will just be an excuse for them just to end up policing themselves and get the regulatory capture they've been begging for. Have they faced any consequences for the AI worms they've released? It's…
Yes, the right generalization of Georgism is the taxation of economic rent in its various forms - something which George himself opposed.
Not quite. FedNow is public payment infrastructure for institutions. Apple Pay is consumer-facing.
Another argument for turning finance into a public utility. Instead we have different factions of rentier capital competing for who gets to parasitize us.
Nothing can stand in the way of America's forever wars, genocide, and automated killing, including performative objections by a prominent tech company. I suppose we're supposed to be satisfied that the letter of the law…
Mental health plus ad profiles, what could go wrong? I can't help but wonder about the moral fiber of the mental health professionals they say they consulted for this.
For some reason, people think that it's money that's motivating the billionaires' performances. Imagine.
Let's pretend US sanctions have had nothing to do with N Korean prosperity.
Cooperative deescalation is the right direction.
I wish. The government, regardless of party, wants AI for mass surveillance and perpetual war. It is paid off and lobbied and effectively another arm of the billionaires. Holding big companies responsible for their…
That would be nice, but let's get real, with billions of dollars at your disposal you can more or less get away with whatever you want.
But I like to pretend the US is fighting for human rights.
Immigrants are a timeless scapegoat for the problems faced by the working class.
IMO US vs Chinese data vacuuming is a false choice. One of the main benefits of these open weights models is that you can get the privacy and cost savings by hosting your own model in cloud infrastructure. Open weights…
The poor capitalists with all the money and power, making the decisions at the highest levels, guiding society's direction... can you imagine they might be responsible for the shittier and shittier turns our world is…
Real estate is 13.7% GDP, finance and insurance 8.7%, healthcare 7.5%, info/tech 5.7%, utilities and mining 3% - rentier capitalism is roughly 40% of the US economy. George held land value as the only worthwhile…
So, free if you're a VC? Funny how China leads in most tech areas now. Turns out letting monopoly capital control your government policy leads to short term gains at the expense of long term viability. Maybe the VCs can…
US corporations have always had these kinds of relationships with foreign governments. If a given government won't accept bribes the CIA will work to overthrow them, financing and puppeting "democratic" groups to that…
The fact is this political system of ours is heavily balanced in favor of those with the endless budgets and resources to spend engaging in "democratic" avenues of influence.
I hope one day they learn to inhabit their position more confidently instead of merely aping their competitors.
Paving the way for further stripping the populace of their rights.
The regulatory capture begins.
It's always going to be too hard as long as companies aren't held accountable.
Those Russian propagandists. Lucky the US doesn't engage in propaganda.
People are too afraid to challenge their billionaire bosses, so they go after immigrants, because immigrants seem like easy targets. It's basic human cowardice underneath.
Seems like regulation will just be an excuse for them just to end up policing themselves and get the regulatory capture they've been begging for. Have they faced any consequences for the AI worms they've released? It's…
Yes, the right generalization of Georgism is the taxation of economic rent in its various forms - something which George himself opposed.
Not quite. FedNow is public payment infrastructure for institutions. Apple Pay is consumer-facing.
Another argument for turning finance into a public utility. Instead we have different factions of rentier capital competing for who gets to parasitize us.
Nothing can stand in the way of America's forever wars, genocide, and automated killing, including performative objections by a prominent tech company. I suppose we're supposed to be satisfied that the letter of the law…
Mental health plus ad profiles, what could go wrong? I can't help but wonder about the moral fiber of the mental health professionals they say they consulted for this.
For some reason, people think that it's money that's motivating the billionaires' performances. Imagine.
Let's pretend US sanctions have had nothing to do with N Korean prosperity.
Cooperative deescalation is the right direction.
I wish. The government, regardless of party, wants AI for mass surveillance and perpetual war. It is paid off and lobbied and effectively another arm of the billionaires. Holding big companies responsible for their…
That would be nice, but let's get real, with billions of dollars at your disposal you can more or less get away with whatever you want.
But I like to pretend the US is fighting for human rights.
Immigrants are a timeless scapegoat for the problems faced by the working class.
IMO US vs Chinese data vacuuming is a false choice. One of the main benefits of these open weights models is that you can get the privacy and cost savings by hosting your own model in cloud infrastructure. Open weights…
The poor capitalists with all the money and power, making the decisions at the highest levels, guiding society's direction... can you imagine they might be responsible for the shittier and shittier turns our world is…