Comment by twoodfin

Comment by twoodfin a day ago

7 replies

ensure that stored wealth is best re-invested in the economy at large

Pretty sure the vast, vast bulk of wealth held by the richest US households is indeed “reinvested in the economy at large”.

Where do you think it is instead?

shimman a day ago

Supporting companies that profit off of misery, reduce human meaningfulness, those that innovate the surveillance state; why is it so hard to support policies like giving US school children free breakfast + lunch, medicare for all, public housing, universal childcare, federally mandated paid time off, universal higher education + vocational training, and a public jobs program (all things that have 70-90% voter approval across party lines; the new deal coalition literally had control of both houses of Congress for nearly 60 years unabated)? Programs that would literally unleash hundreds of trillions in monetary + societal benefits, why should the US population care about the wealth of the few compared to what we can do to provide meaningful lives collectively?

The idea that less than 100 people in the country have some sort of mandated right from the devil to dictate the direction of technology in our country should fill every single decent human being with disgust.

We must correct this. The fact that several hyper scale data centers could provide US school children free lunches + breakfast for a year should be the first immediate sign that something is deeply wrong with our country.

  • luses 19 hours ago

    oh so your a filthy commie, an evil domestic terrorist. dont you know they're the job creators? you should be grateful for your stable bed and stop being greedy.

    imagine the horror of free loaders eating free lunches, living in affordable apartments close to school, and riding high speed rail each weekend to visit nature. will anyone think of our lords? and what about my iphone? obviously phones will cease to exist once we implement these communist pipe dreams. just look at china, they've got all of this and they clearly hate it. no phones, no brand clothes, oh the terror. you should be locked up in an insane asylum immediately

  • twoodfin 21 hours ago

    I dunno, I love my iPhone, especially when I use it to take photos of my kids.

    Amazon is pretty great, too.

    Also schoolchildren in my state have had free school breakfast & lunch since Covid.

    • shimman 18 hours ago

      Yes and you should care about the world your children are inheriting. What happens after you die? What happens if they get injured and can no longer work? What happens if they lose their job and can't afford their rent? What happens when it turns out they aren't as capable as you thought and require assistance to simply navigate the world?

      This is the problem with people like you, you simply lost your humanity because you care more about trinkets than literally shaping a better world for your children.

    • HNisCIS 19 hours ago

      Do you see what's going on around you or do you just stare at pictures of cats on your iPhone™

    • Bnjoroge 18 hours ago

      incredible self awareness - well done

HNisCIS 19 hours ago

When you invest you get shares. Shares come with votes. Do you think these people are voting to make your life better or do you think they're voting to arbitrarily raise prices to increase the value of their shares?