Everything’s a subscription, or wants you to sign up for one. I want off this shitshow please.
this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2023
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Most people online seemingly prefer to live in a shit hole without any infrastructure at all then to discuss how to fix their government to reduce waste of tax money...
The fix is easy. Guillotines. Corrupt politicians. CEOs. Anyone with a net worth over a certain amount.
Off with their heads.
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Guillotines...
I would remind you that the people who started the reign of terror by calling for and lopping off the heads of the nobility ended up taking La Monte-à-regret (The Regretful Climb) themselves.
Well yes, because what really happened was one upper class being replaced by another. The workers/lower class was exploited throughout, and that never changed.
Politicians are supposed to be representatives of the people, but no matter where you live right now, they're owned by corporations, and champion corporate interests. Corporations are not our friends. Thus by extension, politicians aren't either.
Thats why we should strive to replace human leadership with A.I. Which of all the jobs is gonna steal from people, it migth as well steal the jobs that could be benefitial to everyone but arent because humans are weakminded and corruptible. A.I. is gonna redistribute resources as needed in a human level, not in a cold USSR way, and it should build a network to exploit resources in a sustainable way. Of course im talking about a singularity level A.I. and not necesarily the language models or machine learning that we have at the moment (Althought imho they could do a better job than our actual world/corporate overlords), and the fact that we are not working on something like that is probably concerning since there are problems like global warning that the current leadership is just not gonna solve and to replace it with more of the same is just gonna continue the cycle.
As a Klingon, this feels like an acceptable answer.
Most of the taxes are redistributional. So you're right and wrong at the same time.
no that's functioning society, and counters runaway capitalist dystopia.
those who have more contribute more, so we can all live a decent life. .
There's an awful lot of devil in those details. Does health care qualify as an essential service? How about Social Security, which is the only reason working-class people don't all become homeless once they're too old to work? Mail? Roads? Firefighting? Modern governments do an awful lot, and life would be an awful lot worse if they didn't, but it costs an awful lot of money.
Effort should be made to root out wasteful government spending, of course, but that means unraveling the twisted schemes of those who would misappropriate tax money without destroying the government functions they've attached themselves to, and much like surgically removing a cancerous growth from an organ without destroying the entire organ, it is neither easy nor permanent.
This is a grave misconception. Taxes are not what stops people from saving money. Taxes are proportional to income, expenses, and/or wealth. No matter how little money you make, taxes will never take all of it.
Prices of goods and services are what stop people from saving money. Prices are always set as high as the market will bear. Landlords and merchants are trying to take all of your money, not just a fraction of it. This leaves no room for savings unless you make a great deal more money than the average person.
The saying does not go, “the taxes are too damn high.” The saying goes, “the rent is too damn high.” Never forget that.