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Palantir CEO, With a Straight Face, Warns That Wealth Tax Will Cause Mass Surveillance (futurism.com)

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[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 21 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

well then that means you should support wealth tax?

I mean this guy is seriously the CEO of one of the largest tech companies on Earth. He sees that people hate surveillance and then thinks that by flaunting even more surveillance threats he can obscure the connection between surveillance and rich people, lol. He is like the Trump of the tech world, a text book sociopath.

[–] obvs@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

I want to be very clear that I am NOT endorsing violence toward billionaires.

I am merely pointing out that I fully believe that it will happen, and that I have read a history book, and I know about 1789 France.

[–] ViceroTempus@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

I am endorsing violence against billionaires. We should make billionaires non-existent even if that means wielding violence as they do against the working class.

Billionaires are a global problem. With the ability to be anywhere in the world they want to be at any time, fucking up economies, corrupting governments, and more.
We should deal with them when and where we can, especially since our governments have proven susceptible to their corruption.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 7 hours ago

What about endorsing violence towards billionaires that are endorsing (and sometimes perpetuating) violence towards all of us?

[–] plyth@feddit.org 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Do you know about the Bourgeoisie and the Aristocracy? Did the people fight for democracy or did the Bourgeoisie use the people to replace the Aristocracy with themselves?

[–] DaGreenGobbo@feddit.uk 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

So how do the people use the aristocracy to replace the bourgeoisie with themselves? There's got to be some way!

[–] plyth@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

How about the people have to select the best among them and let the best figure lt out in a public discussion?