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The best reward on a Lemmy comment is an interesting and thoughtful reply.

Your #4 seems inaccurate, unless you were just walking us through your changing perspective as you joined.

This place is very left leaning and I’m sure it’s loaded with people who happily call themselves socialists while shouting down the MLs/tankies.

The main difference afaik is that they support authoritarians.

Part of me wants the fediverse to take over because the world needs open systems and not corporate outlets for ads and propaganda.

But this place is really fun how it is and I want to be selfish and keep the precious all for ourselves.

I think we have a lot of wiggle room between the two, fortunately. If we get 10x the users with the barriers to entry doing the same filtering as now, this place could really be hopping. But if we get 1000x the users and start doing Reddit numbers, who knows what it will be like.

Knowing humans, maybe there’s a critical mass at which Lemmy would fracture into multiple fediverse islands. But each could still be vastly larger than all of Lemmy right now.

Hack yeah, rule #4!

It might be neat to have the rich lean into their new admirable roles and directly support the schools and hospitals publicly. If they keep their net worth down, the government does not need to seize anything.

But then we run the risk of them pulling the shit where they donate to their own charities they control. But if we’re writing regulations to limit net worth like this, then writing the regulations about where they can send the money seems simple in comparison.

I had the “wait, a good thing?” reaction too.

But thinking about potential underlying motivations, it makes complete sense that the compromised traitor holding the reins would want to weaken the military at the same time as destroying the government.

Or maybe it isn’t to help other dictators, and he just wants the opportunity to weed out more people who are loyal to the constitution.

Yep. I didn’t want to make the post much longer, but I almost went on about how this could easily be a win-win scenario.

The one speed bump I wonder about is that loss of shares means loss of control of the company and its board, which your “founder & CEO” types will not like.

…but I guess reasonable people may consider that a feature, not a bug.

And btw, thanks!

I feel like for that analogy to fit, I need to imagine that the door to the closet has a hole in it with arrows pointing to it and a flashing sign that says “sucky sucky in here!”

Hell yeah. My secondary monitor is a 1080p120 shitty TN panel from 2011. I remember the original stand had a big “3D” logo because remember those NVIDIA shutter glasses?

Connecting it is a big sturdy DVI-D cable that, come to think of it, is older than my child, my cars, and any of my pets.

Maybe we collectively need to recognize billionaires like they recognize their workers. I propose the following:

1. “Becoming a billionaire” is still a thing that the most aggressive, ambitious sociopaths among us can aspire to. Because they and the broken people that idolize them will insist that great things cannot happen without the promise of great rewards. And obviously the only “reward” of any meaning to them is money.

2. Once you are a billionaire, you get a nationally broadcast pizza party on CSPAN and we engrave your name into a plaque in some “hall of smart winners” somewhere in DC. You are declared a champion of the economy and the President shakes your hand and declares a one-time national day to be in your honor. Or they read your name during the superbowl that year or whatever. Your place in history is locked in.

3. Assets and earnings in excess of 1 billion are seized and given to charity, or infrastructure, or healthcare or whatever. Used for the betterment of society. It should be done responsibly in a way that won’t ruin the assets, for example not liquidating billions in stock all at once.

4. The government publishes a leaderboard every year that shows which Champions of the Economy™️ gave the most back to society that year in the form of excess earnings. And we all pretend that we’re REALLY impressed.

They can have their on-paper status and their superficial adoration they hunger for. And they can even be stupidly rich by ANY standard.

Indeed. I have said a few times on here, usually in response to some rugged individualism argument, that anybody with the ability to read my words you are currently reading is among the luckiest humans to ever have lived. And even pretty high up there among the current living population.

Some people are so addicted to complaining that they have no perspective, at all.

Yeah, I looked up some random articles and it looks like for the US it takes $5-10+ million to be in the top 1% of net worth, while globally I saw numbers under one million.

And according to one article that’s a bit old, $100K net worth puts you in the top 10% globally, and just $5,000 puts you in the top half.

I think both of our statements are correct.

I bet the absolute number of laypeople using NAS is way up while the percentage of users is still tiny.

Backups being mainstream is awesome, but for them backup means cloud and almost certainly Apple/Google/Microsoft. Even I personally still use crashplan for actual backups primarily because it’s offsite and has unlimited version retention. I might roll my own one of these days though, whether finding some cheap cloud storage or putting a small server at my parents’ house or something like that.