What if we start having more Luigi's in society?
this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2026
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I don't have a cancer diagnosis. Hit me up when I have nothing to lose.
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Sooner or later well have nothing to lose.
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I have not watched this interview, but I have never watched this man have a straight face, he is always high as fuck.
The CEO of a... checks notes... mass surveillance company named after a skrying orb used by an evil sorcerer in arguably the most famous fantasy series of all time... warns that a... wealth tax on billionaires (like himself)... would cause... mass surveillance...?
Good. They are starting to threaten the people of the society in which they want to live. It won't be long now until those people are forced to start thinking they are just a business, not saviours or overlords. Just selling shit to make a few bucks, nothing more, nothing less. Tick, tock...
So Mass surveillance CEO say taking away their power will cause more of it? Makes sense /s
It’s threat of punishment. There’s the money, and then there’s the rest of us. We’re at the point where the money doesn’t expect further pushback (with teeth) from us.
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Nothing to see here, just planting new associations for the cultists, move along.
Mass surveillance = i don't like that (bad)
Wealth tax = mass surveillance
Wealth tax = bad
I thought maybe he meant that taxing them would anger the billionaires and more mass surveillance is just what they do when they're angry, but no. He just means surveillance of billionaire's bank accounts. I'm not sure that really counts as "mass."
Every time I deposit more than $600 cash I’m getting monitored. These fuckers have no clue how we live.
In the 60 Minutes interview, when the interviewer reminded Trump his wealth had increased by $3 billion, Trump immediately shot back "Well, so did everyone's." I dont think they even remember that non-billionaires exist, and if they do they don't consider it important.
We are their livestock. They manage us and farm us.
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You might be happy to learn the $600 deposit reporting was never actually a thing. I totally thought it had passed too, but after searching recently I couldn't find any requirement for banks or credit unions to report anything under 10k. They just fear mongered us into submission with that one.
And that's just the mandated monitoring -- it doesn't include the monitoring that businesses and banks are doing for free, on their own.
I hear rumors that many places are rolling out systems to record and track the serial number of every bill of cash that goes in or out, because they can sell that information to big data collectors who can use it to piece together a picture of where cash flows -- previously the only flow of money they couldn't completely monitor. And, of course, that big data is available to the government at any time, either by buying it or by getting a friendly judge to sign off on sweeping warrants.
That cash thing doesn't surprise me. They need a way to track these people who refuse to use credit cards.
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This is a sales pitch.
Wealth tax is largely an idiotic idea though. Some limited part does provably work though -- Switzerland has had such a thing in place for a very long time. Their taxation in general is amazing in other ways too.
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Thanks for the fucking tip, Sauron.
On another tangentially related topic, Smaug wouldn't even be in the top ten richest beings if he and his stolen wealth were real.
That company is just a middle man with no technology of their own. The sooner everyone realizes this, the sooner nobody buys anything from them. Even military people realize they're a scam grift.
Do you have any resources to share on this? I'd like to learn more.
I, with a straight face, suggest we should fire the Palantir CEO out of a cannon off a tall cliff into the ocean. Preferably one with jagged rocks on the coastline.
Whoa whoa whoa.
We went through all this trouble making the CEO cannon. Let’s not stop at one.
Perhaps Kilauea? It has tall cliffs, is by the ocean, but has soft molten rocks.
Personally I'd prefer to fire him into the sun. Now I'm sure there is no possible way to make a cannon with enough force to fire him into the sun without also immediately vaporizing him. But I say we give it a go anyway.
That's such a waste of energy.
Fire him in to Saturn. Still extremely fatal but he gets a long ride to regret it and we have on fuel by using gravity assists.
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Ohohohooo now I wanna increase it tenfold
lmao why don't you just audit everyone. lmao, it's like they just want newer way to use drones to scan houses.
You all want it for the rich but what about you and your own unaccounted for items? What happens to some of you when your unaccounted items become objects that are supposed to reflect on your income, what then? repo or audit?
Lets think this through of what could happen to the common man. How many people are gonna get away with using gifting as an option and how many aren't? How many of those that aren't are going to be judged based on racial biases? How many times are they gonna use DHS alongside with this?
How much corruption with the technology will it take before we all start protests? I don't see anything good from this.
I think that there needs to be people that can't be bribed to do audits to rich people.
I swear these tech billionaires are all absolutely batshit insane!
Not insane, full of shit. They will do anything, and say anything if it means they can make a little more money.
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He says it not as a warning, but as a threat.