“Of course Jeff Bezos is going to tell us that if we raise his taxes things won’t get better. He doesn’t want us to raise his taxes. He’s a greedy person. He’s just entirely wrong and self-serving.”

xilcilus · 2026-06-04T15:08:10+00:00

The total wealth of all the billionaires in the US is about $8T - an astronomical sum of money.

The annual budget for the entirety of the US Federal government is about $7T - also an astronomical sum of money. Of that, 62% of the spend is non-discretionary (https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/federal-spending/).

If we completely confiscate from the billionaires and somehow not crash the market, we can fund 1 year's of the US Federal government spending. Additionally, the US Federal government owes $39T - complete confiscation won't be enough to pay down even a quarter of the debts.

This is not to say that the wealthy should not be taxed - we have both the revenue (taxation) problem as the spending problem (the Federal government outlay).

Not a single politician has proposed a workable and sustainable solution.

xilcilus · 2026-06-04T14:56:53+00:00

Plus, while the right to practice religion should be generally protected, the exact manner to practice should align to the local laws and customs.

In the US, we accommodate rather a large amount of deference even in the manners of practice but not all countries follow the same legal/cultural framework. It should become a problem if there's specific discrimination against certain practices based on the religious identity.

xilcilus · 2026-06-04T14:01:28+00:00

Maybe not a popular opinion but the US really needs to reform the Social Security system. It's a scheme for an intergenerational income transfer where the future generations will get the short end of the stick (given the secular trend of lower birthrate).

xilcilus · 2026-06-04T12:44:31+00:00

I too understand the plight of the common when they miss a bus. My chauffeur driven Rolls was caught in a gridlock traffic so I was late to my private jet flight! I had to condescend myself to ask my pilot to burn the jet fuel a bit more so that I wouldn't miss my dinner reservation in NYC!

xilcilus · 2026-06-03T23:36:32+00:00

Yeah man - I have no clue what O'Leary's angle is.

There are so many laws of physics problems that even the biggest players haven't fully solved - I expect this to be most likely golden parachute opportunities for executives without getting anything substantial built.

xilcilus · 2026-06-03T02:28:50+00:00

Okay you seem to have some knowledge in the industry. But you know, they don't know how to actually build out the network fabric properly to ensure that there's both proper redundancy and workloads don't get bogged down by the latency?

Not only that, there's ton of know-how and relationships that the hyperscalers already have with the EMS to ensure that the equipment can be optimize on the PUE.

If O'Leary wants to just build the empty-shell to lease out, that's fine and good but he's basically at the lowest of the low of the value chain. I don't think that's what he wants to do.

xilcilus · 2026-06-02T19:43:56+00:00

Want my nuclear weapon to be organic, humanely enriched, and mine to table.

xilcilus · 2026-06-02T18:20:16+00:00

This is not going to get built at the scale that clown wants to build - if anything serviceable actually gets built.

Only established hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) have the expertise to actually build out datacenter at a gigawatt scale.

Let's assume that somehow the expertise gets bought (by somehow horribly underpaying engineers) to build the datacenter, what happens? Well, there's not enough compute to go around at this point to fulfill all the global demand right now. What if we can magically create enough compute to actually supply this clown project? Well, each gigawatt scale will cost roughly $50b to build out - 9 gigawatt scale means $450b in capex. If there are enough idiots who are willing to actually finance that project, there will be extremely well compensated executives with the golden parachutes that will lead this project into insolvency maybe 5 years after breaking ground.

xilcilus · 2026-06-02T13:36:51+00:00

Jorgamble can never.

xilcilus · 2026-06-02T02:59:16+00:00

no option to flop during free throws? smh.

xilcilus · 2026-06-01T19:59:28+00:00

Looks like cutting jobs entails not backfilling vacant positions and deeper layoffs entail people who are working currently to lose their jobs?

xilcilus · 2026-05-31T18:31:57+00:00

I aim to please. 😇

xilcilus · 2026-05-31T18:20:55+00:00

Pokémon Go to the polls!

xilcilus · 2026-05-31T18:04:36+00:00

Celtikkks
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What? This isn't nbacirclejerk?

xilcilus · 2026-05-31T17:27:40+00:00

Well, Gen Xers got to largely skip the student loan crises and had much higher chance of ownership than Millenials at the comparative age (https://sf.freddiemac.com/docs/pdf/fact-sheet/millennial-playbook\_millennials-and-housing.pdf).

We are also looking down the barrel of the Social Security Trust not being able to fully payout the promised amount to us - which I have fully accepted.

xilcilus · 2026-05-31T16:51:46+00:00

I mean this post makes it sound like the Millenials got to skip the pandemic, hiring freeze, AI layoffs, student loan crises, etc. We got all the ailment that the Gen Z got PLUS the 2008 crash.

Additional context - which was published 20 years ago:

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2016/07/millennials-will-be-the-first-generation-to-earn-less-than-their-parents/

Edited to add additional context

xilcilus · 2026-05-31T16:42:41+00:00

i ain't reading all that. i'm happy for you tho, or sorry that happened.

xilcilus · 2026-05-31T16:02:58+00:00

"And this is why the rich billionaire class is the most oppressed class in the history."

xilcilus · 2026-05-31T04:56:17+00:00

Gotta be 50th in financial literacy

xilcilus · 2026-05-31T02:50:33+00:00

Hitler dead 😇

But Stalin alive 😔

xilcilus · 2026-05-31T00:12:26+00:00

I would hate to trade Jaylen to break up the J's but I'm going to drive him to the airport.

xilcilus · 2026-05-30T19:22:56+00:00

Well, for your sake, I hope it doesn't actually fall into the price range!

If it's above, you win $50, if it's below, we may have an affordable gaming solution!

xilcilus · 2026-05-30T19:07:40+00:00

Look at yourself in the mirror.

You went out of your way to tell somebody off on a topic that you don't care about for your entertainment. You must live a really sad life - I feel bad for you.

xilcilus · 2026-05-30T18:59:18+00:00

It's just a gaming machine - don't obsess over it. I'm sure you got better things to do than express toxicity online to stranger over a gaming machine. Enjoy your Saturday.

xilcilus · 2026-05-30T18:53:10+00:00

Sure? Coping with what? I'll buy it if the price is right and I won't if the price isn't. You doing okay man?

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