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MicroWave@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 hours ago

An AI startup founder says he's planning a 'March for Billionaires' in protest of California's wealth tax

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An AI startup founder says he's planning a 'March for Billionaires' in protest of California's wealth tax

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    Luigi intensifies…

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    Surely millions of people will protest on their behalf. It’s not like they’re going to get their fat asses out there.

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    I stopped reading after “AI startup”.Everything these clowns do is a publicity stunt aimed at sucking up VC money and splitting before the jig is up.

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    Nuke them all from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.

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    You’re saying you’re going to get them all in the same place huh? Excellent.

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    Every healthy society needs a robust guillotine maintenance and repair workforce.

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    Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

    Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

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    The march will be online of ai generative clones of 1 million Eric’s!

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    Beat him to death, with hammers.

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    We should schedule a march for guillotines that same day

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    I’m here for the march, where do I park my Cybertruck?

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      In the middle of their march, if you could.

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      Just leave it in that bicycle lane over there. There’s room on the crosswalk.

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    I see a bunch of billionaires in one place as an opportunity.

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      9 out of 10 who claim to be billionaires at that march, won’t be billionaires.

      And the other one is lying, too.

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        Doesn’t matter to the hammer.

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      I think that’s exactly why they probably won’t have any showing up.

      Or else they send proxies. If I was some assistant for one of these fuckers and they asked me to go, I think I’d call in sick that day. No way I’d want to be a meat shield for one of these dickheads.

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      Like the guy wouldn’t just pay a bunch of people to show up

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        Actually came here to say this. This will be like those “supporters” that showed up to watch Pedonald come down that escalator. Paid actors.

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      We need eggs ,lots and lots off them ,NOW

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        You mean for the batter? Sure but we also need a lot of flour and frying oil. Maybe some seasoning too, we’re not monsters.

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          Bring the Mexicans,

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        Eggs? You guys need drones. Lots and lots of them. Now.

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          🤔 good idea drones dropping eggs on billionaires ,then we have a breakfast with bacon and eggs ,sounds great

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            Bacon must be crispy.

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              Yep

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          Surely not like that scene in season 3 of Lioness in Mexico? We definitely should not model the approach on that scene. That would be theoretically wrong.

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        Eggs? In this economy?

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          Choose rotten eggs

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      Yep hopefully they cluster together

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    I assume they just hire people to march on their behalf.

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      And then stiff them on their pay.

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        You laugh but here in Australia when the Labor government was pushing for a Minerals Resources Rent Tax (MRRT) the big miners made their staff go attend a “protest” on Perth Foreshore during business hours.

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    It’s not going to happen and we all know it, it’s funny as fuck to imagine and on some deeply repressed level they know it, that’s why they knew it would get publicity.

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    LOL, this is going to be hilarious.

    I seem to remember some group would dress up in top hats and monocles with satirical signs supporting the parasitic elite.

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