I have not watched this interview, but I have never watched this man have a straight face, he is always high as fuck.
So we need to tax wealth so much that there is no money for surveillance. Got it.
Uhh that just gives the government more money for surveillance. You’ll get your surveillance either way, don’tcha worry.
You son of a bitch. I’m in.
Ohohohooo now I wanna increase it tenfold
What if we start having more Luigi’s in society?
Anything stopping you?
I don’t have a cancer diagnosis. Hit me up when I have nothing to lose.
Sooner or later well have nothing to lose.
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.
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…?
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.
thiel is pulling the strings behind karp.
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.
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.
But why would you expend so much resources on someone’s death when a falling blade is just so incredibly efficient
Shouldn’t the goal be efficiency here, not extravaganza?
Whoa whoa whoa.
We went through all this trouble making the CEO cannon. Let’s not stop at one.
And people are going to believe this pig.
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.
Okay I hate defending Trump, but cmon, he meant that everyone’s wealth increased not that everyone’s wealth increased by 3 billion.
The US has over 20 million millionaires in terms of individuals or about 20% of households. That’s a damn fifth of the country who would rather see the stock market and property prices go up than the workers’ salaries and ability to afford a home.
Sure, but in a lot of the cities, starter homes cost a half million dollars.
Also the top 1% is way richer than the top 10%
And there’s an even steeper drop from there.
Not to mention that I’m not sure Trump is capable of understanding that inflation has been killing any gains in wealth the lower half might have made.
We are their livestock. They manage us and farm us.
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.
They have plenty of clues. They wrote the damned clues
I thought it’s 200, now.
And monitored it should be.
Once a person has enough wealth that affects, say, more than 50 “unaffiliated” (non-family member/dependant/immediate circle, not including employees) people’s lives, their finances should be as transparent as aquarium glass.
Don’t complicate stuff, just treat wealth like income. In fact let’s change income tax to income and wealth tax. Same department, same operations.
That would backfire considerably for the average people…
Why? Average people haven’t hoarded sufficient wealth for taxing, so what’s the backfire
You didn’t specify that you wanted to tqx wealth above a given level… You just stated you want to roll income and wealth tax into one. That would apply to everyone…
Alrighty, here goes -
Taxes on annual income -
0 upto 1st quartile of the distribution
5% on part 1st quartile to median
10% on part median to 90%ile
20% on part 90%ile to 99%ile
40% on part 99%ile up
Taxes each year on wealth -
0 upto 50M USD
1% on part 50M to 100M USD
2% on part 100M to 200M USD
3% on part 200M to 400M USD
4% on part 400M to 800M USD
5% on part 800M to 1.6B USD
6%… Keep going, you get the pattern
Up to 50 million at 0%? That leaves most of the wealth in the country untaxed.
Wealth tax should start at about 5 million, indexed to median income. It should get pretty heavy before 100 million. Otherwise what’s the point? The billionaires as a class don’t own shit, there aren’t that many of them. Millionaires (mostly baby boomers) own everything.
how would you define “affects people’s lives”? because hiring a yard work company and replacing your roof could potentially be contracting 50 people (it shouldn’t be more than 30 but I’ve seen the exact Mexican immigrants Trump probably hates working as a family in roofing where the entire family does the job all at once)
So Mass surveillance CEO say taking away their power will cause more of it? Makes sense /s
Clearly he’s saying that he’s a lazy overpaid piece of crap who doesn’t do his job most days, but if he gets taxed more he’ll actually feel the need to do some work for a change. /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.
The bearings will continue until my morale improves.
Which surfaces? If we’re talking nails on chalkboard then it’s all smiles. But a well greased main gear? May wanna push for a harsher threat.
God damned autocomplete.
Let’s just assume he’s got a sock full of ball bearings.
So business as usual?
How progressive of him.
