MasterBlaster
@MasterBlaster@lemmy.world
- Comment on We can't keep tying healthcare to employment 1 week ago:
u.s. govt: we can’t? hold my beer.
- Comment on He was no friend to the middle class 1 week ago:
true, but heaping hatred does not make us any beter. acknowledge the hypocrisy nd ork to end it. don’t waste enerfy in useless hatred.
i had a moment of satisfaction at his end, and felt bad because i let my anger for just a moment make me as bad as these horrible people. don’t become what we fight.
- Comment on Neverness to Everness has patched out a character’s shorts in favor of panties following complaints 2 weeks ago:
I don’t have any problems with people looking up video game skirts. It’s the hypocrisy I’m pointing out. The people who complain the most and try to take the rights away from other people are the ones who are most likely to be doing the bad thing themselves.
- Comment on Neverness to Everness has patched out a character’s shorts in favor of panties following complaints 2 weeks ago:
Ha! That’s right, only capitalists do that. Not
- Comment on Neverness to Everness has patched out a character’s shorts in favor of panties following complaints 2 weeks ago:
Or perhaps they just put up the original model which they couldn’t use because the marketing team thought it was too risky,
- Comment on Neverness to Everness has patched out a character’s shorts in favor of panties following complaints 2 weeks ago:
And if they did, they’d be the first ones to be looking up those skirts. That’s why they think everyone else is doing it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Back in the nineties, I advocated for “build on the most powerful system, test and improve on the least”.
I think it’s still relevant.
The idea of course is as developers, we need the best equipment to make the work bearable and more efficient, but the users rarely have that luxury. Make it work well on the least powerful reasonably representative equipment.
It’s easy to think your work is done on the dev box, but have a disaster in the real world.
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 3 weeks ago:
Most of them can save their own copies. 😏
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 4 weeks ago:
Well, I agree that the wealth must be freed up somehow. I do not know how, but I also don’t want to set a precedent that could screw us all over.
Some kind of one time payment based on how much wealth you have lying around, due to an agreed upon need caused by extreme circumstances, like the fact that we are in so much debt as a nation, might make sense.
Whatever method is chosen, it needs to make sure it doesn’t make future normal saving and investing impossible.
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 4 weeks ago:
I don’t understand what you are saying. For one thing, I’m not fretting about taxing the rich.
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 4 weeks ago:
Yes, if no special cases are welritten into the law. Though there would be no way to outpace the tax as your wealth is being taxed not the money being added to the wealth.
Retirement accounts aren’t really a great example because they’re already supposed to be tax exempt or tax delayed. However the principle is the same. I just described what would happen to a emergency savings fund with a 20% wealth tax 8on another comment
Now, in reality no sane politician would put a blanket rule in. Instead it would be anything over x amount of money. While that may appeal to populism, it is still double taxation and an injustice.
A more just effect can be attained through better means, like actually enforcing progressive tax laws that take more taxes as the income gets progressively higher.
Here, progressive is not related to the political movement.
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 4 weeks ago:
Lol.that is all.
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 4 weeks ago:
“Mic drop”?
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 1 month ago:
I’ve been fighting and calling out billionaires my whole life. I also want the rest of us to be better off, so I call out obvious bullshit like this for our benefit, not theirs.
I weary of bots and morons who can’t think reacting on pure emotional need to “own” someone else.
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 1 month ago:
What mulgrubs said, plus at least they had to work for it. Today, it’s just handed to them.
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 1 month ago:
Oooooh, I miss understood thought you were asking me what research is. You wanted me to do the work for you. Yeah, no. If you are older than 12, you should already know how to do that. If you don’t care enough to do it, that’s on you. I did.
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 1 month ago:
See, ad hominem attacks means you got nothing. Have a nice day, come back when you have a convincing counterpoint.
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 1 month ago:
Okay, I’ll bite. Other than going to a full-featured library, or contacting the nearest university with expertise on the desired topic, what does count as research for a layperson?
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 1 month ago:
Lol! You have zero clue. I’m close to the opposite of the on line spectrum. I learned how to be informed in the old days, when we were taught his to read and research.
When I don’t know something, I look it up. In discussion forums, I read the other comments before making my own, usually. If someone tells me I’m wrong, I go see what shows up elsewhere on the topic. Most importantly, I’m not immediately condescending or insulting.
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 1 month ago:
I see your point, but disagree with the approach as a long term policy. We can limit the accumulation by taxing the profits. If we can’t do that, then the wealth tax won’t be any more successful as they will hide that, too.
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 1 month ago:
That’s why we have the taxes we have. As you point out, business works with the help of society. However, taxing it as property is a completely messed up approach and will lead to there being little incente to to invest. That’s why we tax profit, not mere existance, as we do for property.
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 1 month ago:
I didn’t think I had to explicitly repeat what I said in a couple other comments I made on the matter. I won’t cut and paste that for you, (and since you set the mode to name calling) shithead.
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 1 month ago:
So, the government should decide how much wealth its citizens should have, and enforce that? I think there are better ways to approch this than turning citizens into subjects.
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 1 month ago:
How long does one own property, and what resources are used by structures on that property that the community has to supply, maintain, or upgrade? What damage might said structures cause to the community while in use? What is lost by the community by selling that property to a private owner? How does a community fund its own services, governance, police, fire department? How are roads and power lines built?
Now, what community is incurring costs by someone owning a stake in a business? What resources does that transfer of money take away from the community? What is the community? What did that community supply to make it possible to invest in that company or buy that stock?
It might not be rocket science, but it is not a “no brainer”. Stocks, like “intellectual property”, have no physical presence. They are not semi-permanent objects taking physical space or requiring physical resources to create or maintain over time. They do not take physical resources that can no longer be used elsewhere.
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 1 month ago:
That simplistic comparison has absolutely zero relationship to reality. Think about it a bit more, if you know how making money on stock investing works, and see if you can find the differences.
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 1 month ago:
Note that property taxes, when reassessed every 10 years or so, are also adjusted with changes to the mil rate, as appropriate to keep taxes from property assessment changes from causing people to leave town.
Equities change in value daily. How should those be assessed, and what is the proper response when the equities decrease in value by 30% during a market crash? Does the government refund the previously paid taxes? What if that money is your retirement income?
At what point does a tax on equities essentially become a continuous draw-down of wealth on the same money year after year, resulting in absolutely no incentive to invest in business and for that matter a situation where it is impossible to build up any wealth? How will startups be funded? How will large, shoot for the stars projects be funded?
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 1 month ago:
Forget 39%. We have greater national debt as a percentage of GDP than we did in 1944. We need to reinstitute the tax brackets from then until 1965, which had a top rate of 90%. There are reasons we had a middle class back then, and this is one of them.
- Comment on Texas woman arrested after Facebook post over city's water concerns. 2 months ago:
Saw this earlier this morning. Was not surprised it was Texas. Government there doesn’t really care about the citizens and is most concerned about keeping power.
Public reports of basic civic failures that cause sickness and death would obviously be silenced.
Notice the lack of urgency by the mayor and other authorities, and the fact she had to file a civil case to get any response at all.
The movie Brazil was supposed to be absurdist. It was not a model for governance.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’m confused. Are you serious? I can’t identify any sarcasm in the text. I’m worried you might not understand the difference between fiction and reality.
- Comment on How long until the rise of games with mods turns into user created games. 3 months ago:
Well, I started playing Skyrim about 3 years ago, and I now have over 200 mods. It’s almost as high quality graphics and sound as modern games, plus I have a huge choice of scenarios I can install. Wild stuff.
Cyberpunk 2077 might be next for me, unless I decide to play skyblivion!