I'm continually flabbergasted that this is accepted and not immediate grounds for punitive action- plopping slop into a ticket (or having it generated directly) is straight-up disrespectful to the person on the other end. I'd rather have someone slap me in the face directly than get one of these tickets.
I love it for lists- like my hands are full making something in the kitchen and I can just tell it to add things to my grocery list as soon as I notice I'm out of something.
> This isn't age verification at the point of accessing restricted content. This is a persistent age-broadcasting service baked into the operating system itself, queryable by every installed application.
Even if evidence did agree with this uncited, broad assertion (I've seen nothing to that effect), it'd still be an indefensible justification for inequity in punishment.
Even if billionaires don't pay income tax and are only taxed occasionally when they sell assets, there isn't much doubt that the corporations they create and invest in generate massive amounts of tax revenue in the countries they operate. Not to mention all the revenue generated from property tax, income tax from their employees getting paid by the company, local fines and fees, sales tax, import duties, etc.
You can want the super wealthy to pay more tax when they sell stuff to fund their lifestyles, but that doesn't mean their work isn't generating large amounts of economic activity which turns into tax revenue for governments.
Billionaires don't seem to create anything new when they're billionaires. You look at companies like Google or Meta and they acquire companies and teams but what sort of truly successful projects and products did they create from whole. It seems like a string of failures, canceled projects and lackluster product offerings to me.
If we can tell poor people how to behave for their own good then we can certainly help billionaires out too by taxing them back to creativity.
How is it that concentrating wealth in private pools is better than spreading it around?
> the corporations they create and invest in generate massive amounts of tax revenue
Economic activity does generate tax revenue, billionaires generate economic activity. But if we took the billions (leave them millions, gready as they are) and spread it around it would have the opportunity to generate much more economic activity
The concentration of wealth, and the resulting concentration of income and widespread middle class impoverishment is catastrophic for our economy.
It is why, in real terms, incomes have been static for thirty years whilst the size of the economy has roughly doubled
> Trump broke the nuclear agreements (which Iran had been following), then refused to negotiate new ones
This is the most head-slapping part of this whole situation. We had a nuclear deal and he pulled the US out of it for no good reason (my read: because he just hates Obama that much that anything he did he wanted to undo). This situation is 100% on this president.
yeah, if there's one clear takeaway from the US-involved conflicts of the past several decades, it's that nukes are the key to making the U.S. keep its hands to itself
I think we'll get there (to explanation), but it'll be through the lizard-brain-level pain of poverty instead of rational understanding unless we get much better at communicating to the least willing to listen among us.
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