tax them until they learn to mind their own business
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Free press in the USA? LOL, it becomes more and more difficult every time a US oligarch buys a news outlet.
Majority Report, Some More News. I suppose the on the other side of the aisle it would be Joe Rogan and Ben Shapiro.
There is still some of the fourth estate left that hasn't been bought by oligarchs, it's just not exactly effective on the leftward side of the overton window.
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90% wealth tax is needed
Anyone with over 10 million dollars in wealth should be legally classified as a dragon and anyone stealing from their hoard shall not be punishable under the law.
Not so fun fact: The absolute richest dragons in all of fantasy, excluding Smaug, only have a net worth of several hundred million dollars. A Red Elder Wyrm will have, on average, around 2.5-3 million gold pieces of wealth, with an absolute maximum of 5 million gold pieces. That means that the absolute greediest, and richest, type of dragon, by far, only has between 100,000 to 500,000 oz worth of gold.
Smaug being the absolute outlier because he had somewhere between 5 to 10 billion dollars worth of gold.
Now if you are wondering why I'm making a big deal about this, it is because 500,000 oz of gold is only worth about 1.1 billion US dollars. But that is the absolute outlier of the greediest type of dragon that there is. Still only looking at Chaotic Evil Red Elder Wyrms, the average would only be about 3.5 million gold pieces, or a mere 350,000 oz of gold. That's only about $600,000,000 and that is just the most average of the absolute greediest manefestations of greed that our limited minds could imagine.
These people that have more than 100 million dollars have already passed the greed alignment chart into Chaotic Evil. They are damn near charachatures of dragons at this point.
My favorite is always the Egyptian god deciding to save the equivalent of $10,000 usd every day and never spend a single penny of it back in 10,000 BC and they still don't have as much money as Jeff Bozos.
I believe that the normal person can imagine themselves as a dragonslayer far more easily than a godslayer.
Sounds like a Set thing to do. Real prideful and blows up in his face.
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Oh Jeffrey.... that's not how you're aupposed to run a newspaper.
Where are the conspiracy theorists when there is actually something going on? I guess they stand back and stand by...
NGL, I had to reread the headline because my brain got too excited.
Not for nothing but what would even happen if someone like Bezos got caught red-handed killing someone on twitch.
I don't think very much. Free shipping to come in before 10am is just too good to pass up.
Sigh
Canceled my friday.