Tax their net worth. The tax should be progressive, so that beyond a certain value, they can't get any richer even if their investment give high yields. Starting bracket can be 50M, 100M$, at this scale it doesn't matter much.
Had Batman used the money spent on his batcave and bat-gadgets into social services, the criminality in Gotham would probably have gone down more than by punching some guys in the face.
As much as I despise her (as much as the rest of that tech-bros lot), I still suspect she's only seen jail because she was a young woman.
Yeah but Sam Altman is a pal, so don't worry: nothing bad actually happening!
Because after N scandals, they needed to make sure people would trust them. Meta had never considered itself bound to any promise or commitment they ever made to anyone (users, ads customers, etc.). But you want a monopole, you need to make sure people see no issue with using your services.
And they're doing it again with Threads. And it works AGAIN, because they promised not to do anything evil. Pending the next inevitable scandal with users flabbergasted that Meta could have done it AGAIN.
Because it's the gazillionth time the exactly totally absolutely same kind of shit happens with the very exactly same company that didn't even try to hide who they were.
And next week the very very same deceived people will be of Facebook, Instagram, etc. And maybe, just MAYBE they'll migrate away from Whatsapp… to join another proprietary network of another billonaire's controlled megacorp.
Because I'm tired of being "that pain in the ass" when barely suggesting to use something else all to see at the end people crying over things they've be warned about.
If a kid burns themself once on a kitchen's hotplate, you assume they learnt their lesson in an unfortunate way despite all the warnings.
If adults keep burning themselves over and over… and over and over and over, at which point are you entitled to say they're part of the f*cking problem??
Proposed line of defense: "With all respect, M. Judge, with all the different times we fucked our users, lied to them, tricked them, experimented on them, ignored them, we already sold private discussions on Facebook in the past, our CEO and founder most famous quote is «They trust me, dumbfucks!», the list goes on and on: no one in their sane mind would genuinely believe we were not spying on Whatsapp! They try to play dumb, they could not possibly believe we were being fair and honest THIS time?!"
Credit cards is a money trickling up system. Banks charge the sellers and give a rebate to their customers. Sellers increase their price to compensate for the credit card fees.
And then the poor are denied credit cards and pay the marked-up price on everything, or are given credit cards knowing they will fail to pay back on time at some point and then pay huge interests.
It would be better for most if that system disappeared or was at least severely trimmed down!
Indeed: a LOT of people are still on Twitter/X.
Greasy racist fucker… and an absolute idiot! Even if Carney thought the F35 was the better choice, purchasing it now would make him look like he was weak and submitted to the bullies. But since idiots are idiots, they keep piping up and shooting themselves in the foot every time.
Ignorance, mostly. It's sad but Chinese leaders seem to listen to their experts, while EU leaders listen to CEOs, and of large companies only.
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Maybe in Alberta, but in Québec, the independentist party took a frank right turn and is now leading the polls with a high margin. Election are in november this year!
https://qc125.com/
Dark blue "Q" in the charts.
Among their strong supporters is a Québec political commentator active in both Québec and France and funded by a French catho-fascist oligarch.