Having wealth over 1000 times the median family income.
I’d prefer it was simply prevented via policy rather than punished if breached.
I would prefer a mixed system. All wealth over 1000x the median household income taxed at 100%. So no one should have a fortune larger than that, a number that would be approximately $80 million today. But if you secretly gather a fortune much larger than that? If you somehow secretly amass a fortune 10,000x the median household income? At that point I would apply severe criminal penalties, like a mandatory minimum 20 year sentence. I don’t want to throw the book at someone just because they accidentally let their fortune grow a bit beyond the limit. But if you’re a whole order of magnitude above it? Then that’s when severe criminal penalties should apply. At some point your wealth becomes so large that you personally become a threat to national security. Amassing a fortune in the billions should be treated like a private citizen trying to build their own nuclear bomb. No one should have that much power, and we should treat both the same.
Scale that back to 100x tops
I like the 1000x threshold because that is approximately the maximum possible fortune one can amass in one’s lifetime off of ordinary salary work and extreme frugality.
1000x the median income would be about $80 million. Consider the highest-earning non-executive salaried employees - people who spend years in school in very challenging fields. People like neurosurgeons. Imagine if there was a couple composed of two neurosurgeons, and they earn very good salaries. They’re also so frugal that they spend basically nothing. You have a pair of neurosurgeons literally sleeping on the sidewalk out front of the hospital. They live like that, and they invest and save every penny they can. The highest salaried incomes combined with pathological frugality.
Even if they did all of that. Even if two highly educated workers lived off nothing and saved everything, even then those people would still struggle to earn, over their whole life, a fortune that exceeded 1000x the median household income.
Such a system allows for a capitalism that actually does live up to the marketing. You’re allowed to earn a fortune as large as your own labor and skills will allow. However, the only way to obtain a fortune larger than this is to get into the business of labor arbitrage - hiring other people and harnessing the surplus of their labor. I want people to be able to earn as much money from the sweat of their own brow as they can. But I don’t want people to be able to hoard strategically dangerous fortunes by exploiting the labor of others. And 1000x the median household income is a nice even number that’s easy to explain to people and that achieves this goal.
Telling any support staff individual
“It just says error.”
Punishment compounded based upon the degree of detailed information you simply decided to not bother reading before seeking assistance.
Lol
No, it should be punishable to build a system that just says “error” when it fails.
And just like that, Microsoft goes straight to jail LMAO.
But oh yeah, I’ve seen those. Those would also be included under this law! We can have both! Lol
Seriously though, I’m talking specifically when any little thing that stops someone from doing what they’re doing and it’ll usually say “Hey, this is why it’s not working. Please tell someone this message.”
“…it just says error?”
Hurt my soul. I’m so done with that nonsense lol.
And just like that, Microsoft goes straight to jail LMAO.
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
It says software has encountered an error: blahblahblah, click ok to quit
Every fucking time they skip over the bit we actually need to hear
Driving a vehicle that can be heard over several suburan blocks
Park shade designers. All of them. Replace them with two guys from anywhere that have had a sunburn and know how to install a roof.
If you are going through a place with a drive through that wraps around the building and you pull up far enough to block the exit so that it fucks up the works and an employee has to come out and direct traffic to unfuck it you should have your license revoked. Clearly you don’t have the situational awareness to be operating a motor vehicle.
Sport Hunting and corporate land owning
Chewing tobacco
elected officials stock trading
Circumcising a child.
Kind of pathetic how we still have to solve the issue of cutting up baby dicks as ritual.
Egypt’s worse; they still cut off the clits of preteen girls as ritual.
Jews and Egyptians aren’t even trying to hide it. They do it specifically to reduce the sensitivity of sexual organs.
Christians are the useful idiots (as always) who have been duped into thinking it’s for ‘medical’ or ‘aesthetic’ purposes. In all honesty, Christians cut up the dicks of their kids because the dad’s dick was cut up for him and he doesn’t want to admit there’s something wrong with it.
Christians don’t do it. Americans do it. And they did it for the same explicit reason as the others thanks to the psycho weirdo Kellogg of the cereal fame to try to prevent masturbation, and sexual pleasure.
You’re gonna love learning about a certain priestly duty at said events. Clue: it involves the priest’s mouth. 🤢
Oh, I’m sorry, downvoters. I misspoke. It’s “rabbi”, not “priest”. Oops.
Maybe in some cultures, but that’s not the norm. It was always just the doctor and his assistant. Honestly, it’s distressing to observe, so no parents or anyone else were allowed to be in the room. *I was a medical assistant for a gyno who did circumcisions during mom’s postpartum check up.
Oofda.
And sometimes the priest gives the child herpes when performing the Briss
Companies reporting price increases as “adjusting for inflation” when the price hike does not match inflation should have the entire C-suite going to the gulag. We need to unironically do what China does with its rich, terrorize them and make them walk on eggshells and hand out ridiculously harsh punishments to management when a business commits a crime.
Also, campaign promises made by politicians running for office should be legally binding. If something they said would happen did not happen, they should be tried for treason and the burden should be on them to prove beyond reasonable doubt that they tried everything they possibly could to keep the promise but forces they could not possibly overcome prevented them from succeeding. Maybe then they’ll only promise things they actually intend to do.
Being cruel to other people by hiding behind some power imbalance.
I don’t want to live in a society where the consequence for this behavior is a meaningless fine.
Is this not murder? There’s no way he didn’t contribute to her death even if she was already terminally ill. Stabbing a terminally ill person is murder, putting a newborn baby on the street under the guise of “it’s in my property and it’s not my kid” is murder, why isn’t this? At least criminal negligence no?
Also, is Nanimo doing okay? Like, just in general, but is the housing situation as bad as Vancouver?
Say no to AI slop
The Copyright Crusaders©®™ are on the scene! They fight for the mouse
shush synthophobe
Tell you what, you provide me a non-AI painting remaking of the “O brother what art thou” film post
with the characters replaces with Luigi Mangionne and the word brother changed to Luigi.
And I will put it in my post.Learn to draw.
Use MS paint.
This took about 100 times longer
Just don’t dump AI spam everywhere 🤷♂️
How about you keep your sentiments to yourself
Have you never seen a meme? You don’t have to bust out the oil paints, in the amount of time you’ve already spent defending this slop you could have clumsily pasted his cutout head onto all six positions. The rough quality can be part of the humor.
I bet your chatbot can explain this and other aspects of human behavior.
result https://lemmy.ml/post/34374123/20369162 and I asked the computer
about normal human behaviour
https://chatgpt.com/share/6898fd57-7618-8005-9724-ad3d650441fc
The funny thing is, I could copy the AI’s work, but I couldn’t create it from scratch because I wouldn’t know what it should look like without looking at it, so it would still be using AI anyway.
Beep boop beep boop
yeah, looks like I"m going to have to lie to everyone about using AI int he future because you people are becoming insufferable
I just want to make it clear that I’m not going to feel bad about it, lying to your face about it and I’m going to have a lot of fun doing it.
Good job smartypantsLying about it just makes you a coward.
And it’s not like it’s gonna change anything, people will still notice?
It’s not AI, I drew it by hand
You’re going to have a lot of fun, generating pictures with AI and then telling people you didn’t?
That’s sad and weird dude, please go outside, you have been online too long and forgotten that there are real things out there.
yes,no,don’t care, fuck grass
Lobbying; at least in its current form. Corporations being treated as people when it benefits them, but not when it would hurt them. Executives not being held legally accountable for the harm they inflict. SJC-Legalized bribery (as “speech”). HOAs. The Bail system. Legislatures redistricting themselves. Racial profiling. ICE. For-Profit prisons. For-Profit Healthcare. Destroying our ecosystem for profit.
Attempting to mislead a person for financial gain.
That’s already illegal? It used to be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obtaining_pecuniary_advantage_by_deception and is now just fraud.
I believe, though I could be wrong, that for a person to be penalized for fraud, someone has to have suffer damages.
I think it should be illegal to simply mislead for financial gain. Think ads that intentionally exaggerate thier products, influencers who will claim to love some product and use it all the time, when they have never even tried it. And media that puts such a heavy spin on things that in court they claim that no reasonable person would have believed what they are saying as a defense.
Yeah they should make fraud illegal
Fraud, I believe, has a narrower definition than most of us think.
So basically all ads… I agree
Don’t forget car dealerships!
Haha. Yep. I was going for subtle. :) I think ads that didn’t mislead wouldn’t be so bad. I do want to know about interesting new products… I just want to be able to trust the info. And choose when I see them.
Yeah, the choosing when to see them is the most difficult part. I don’t see that happening in the near future.
Fixed prices for fines. These should be based on a fixed percentage, not fixed dollar amount, of a persons overall wealth. None of this bullshit that can bankrupt a poor person but be the price of admission for the rich.
Historically, fee-based “laws” are specifically designed to punish the poor. You off to update the whole system, or just the last few thousand years or so?
“ask me later” on phone apps. No means no!
If there’s also a “no” option it’s fine, sometimes I even want the “ask me later”
