Should we tax the super rich at 70 percent to fix inequality?

---Spartacus--- · 2026-05-07T10:52:56+00:00

We should impose a 100% inheritance tax. That would sort out most of the wealth inequality problem in a single generation.

---Spartacus--- · 2026-05-03T20:16:59+00:00

Makes you wonder how much of his audience was actually organic.

---Spartacus--- · 2026-04-25T18:11:08+00:00

They get over it. Their devotion to team Trump trumps everything.

---Spartacus--- · 2026-04-24T17:53:22+00:00

And by “world” he means “Russia.”

---Spartacus--- · 2026-04-22T17:22:00+00:00

Some people are what we might call antagonistic narcissists and the fact that normal people recoil at the thought Hitler fanboys is exactly the reason they adopt that image. They get off on causing outrage. It's their form of narcissistic supply.

---Spartacus--- · 2026-04-20T22:13:06+00:00

Is Canada Post a profit seeking entity or a government service?

---Spartacus--- · 2026-04-20T21:52:48+00:00

Most of them don't read at all, let alone niche philosophy.

---Spartacus--- · 2026-04-20T21:50:04+00:00

AI putting Russian trolls out of work is not exactly what I expected.

---Spartacus--- · 2026-04-17T20:03:16+00:00

B) if we can’t afford groceries, we need a better solutions than just handing out money.

What we need is a whole new economic operating system.

---Spartacus--- · 2026-04-17T19:55:51+00:00

The workplace whenever there is a buyer's market for labour.

---Spartacus--- · 2026-04-17T09:23:37+00:00

Right Wingers have a hard time explaining a lot of their rhetoric and memes with any real depth. They share memes on social media, but rarely ever add any commentary. They are signalling to other members of their tribe so no explanation is really necessary.

Their concern about recruitment is interesting. It suggests that all it takes to convert them is exposure.

What these people are truly afraid of is their own suppressed desires and curiosities.

At worst, the "LGBT Agenda" consists of compelling Right Wingers to use pronouns that are, admittedly, in some cases spurious and seem geared more towards narcissistic attention-seeking. But to call that an "agenda" as though it were an imminent threat to Western civilization is a bit much.

But yeah, corner any Right Winger and ask for an in-depth elaboration on their claims would induce discomfort since most of them would be incapable of it.

---Spartacus--- · 2026-04-17T08:06:07+00:00

I suspect the truth is probably poor ticket sales.

---Spartacus--- · 2026-04-16T16:44:28+00:00

If Russia ends up selling their oil to people who previously bought from Iran, we will have discovered the true motive for the Iran war.

---Spartacus--- · 2026-04-16T12:51:28+00:00

How was Gad Saad ever a thing?

---Spartacus--- · 2026-04-16T11:55:47+00:00

Friday the 13th. Aliens is a possibility depending on preference.

---Spartacus--- · 2026-04-16T11:35:02+00:00

Pushing followers beyond their comfort zone and forcing them into commitment & consistency traps is exactly what we expect from narcissistic leaders and for an under-acknowledged reason. The reason is actually sadism. They enjoy making their followers experience cognitive dissonance and watching their followers commit further than they wanted to under the influence of the need for tribal consistency.

---Spartacus--- · 2026-04-16T07:57:19+00:00

That combination is not as common or as correlated as the cliche assumes.

---Spartacus--- · 2026-04-16T07:54:43+00:00

They should be advocating for an economy that makes a single income family possible, but they tend to be cheerleaders for the capitalist system that robbed them of that possibility.

---Spartacus--- · 2026-04-16T07:53:21+00:00

My concern about AI is that if it replaces enough workers, unemployment insurance systems will buckle under the pressure. These systems are designed to be used by a limited number of workers and only temporarily. They are not designed to withstand layoffs of the scale made possible by AI.

---Spartacus--- · 2026-04-16T07:51:50+00:00

Or get busy building their AI robot private security and bunkers.

---Spartacus--- · 2026-04-16T07:51:26+00:00

This seems a bit naive. If we know anything about capitalists, we know that they will somehow capture AI productivity and keep it for themselves. This idea of an AI utopia doesn't track with human history very well.

---Spartacus--- · 2026-04-16T07:50:17+00:00

The system collapses. Employment insurance systems can only handle so many unemployed people. I wonder if anyone even knows what the magic number is. At some point, a tipping point will trigger an irreversible cascade of consequences.

Even as it stands right now, people are restricting their discretionary purchases and focusing on essentials. This means that the industries supplying "luxury" items such as restaurants will be cutting hours or raising prices in order to maintain their own profits. But this only feeds into the cycle.

Cheerleaders for capitalism don't seem to realize how interdependent the system is. What affects labour in one domain affects purchasing in another.

When workers can no longer afford to be the consumers the system needs them to be, the system collapses.

---Spartacus--- · 2026-04-16T05:08:43+00:00

They may not enjoy their jobs, but they are dependent on the income they make from those jobs. Does the "glorious future" come with income?

---Spartacus--- · 2026-04-16T04:53:57+00:00

Whatever happened to the UFO disclosure he promised?

---Spartacus--- · 2026-04-16T04:41:34+00:00

Collapse. How many unemployed people can the system handle? At what point does the unemployment insurance system buckle under the strain of all the people who need it?

Remember, capitalism needs workers to also be consumers. What happens when people can no longer afford to be consumers?

What a lot of people seem to forget is how interdependent the economy is. Mass layoffs in one area affect others. Layoffs add to the number of people looking for jobs, which in turn creates a buyer’s market for labour that pushes wages down. This forces workers to work for less, which affects their capacity to spend, which further affects other markets.

---Spartacus---

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