As one Google executive recently explained: “Organizing information is clearly a trillion-dollar opportunity, but a trillion dollars is not cool anymore. What’s cool is a quadrillion dollars.”
Any exec saying remarks like this should be old yellered.
I’m saying this being fully aware of what I just said, and I say it because of what it implies.
It requires massive poverty, massive control, massive casualties, people dying from whatever comes with that level of poverty, just so that a few assholes can brag about a quadrillion dollars.
Fuck
That
Shit
We need to start hard capping maximum sizes in companies. No company can employ more than 1000 people. No company can have a net worth of over one billion dollar. When a company goes over the met worth, handle it with taxes. When it reaches the employee max, that’s it, can’t hire no more.
We also need to hard cap personal wealth. Both income and net worth must be taxed in brackets. Nobody should be allowed to own more than 10 million (or whatever is a sane max maybe less, maybe a little bit more)
The lowest of the low pay no taxes, they have no money to do so. Then the next starts with 5, 10, etc. middle class should pay around 30 like in most countries. After that it goes up and up until you reach 100% for income, and whatever % is required to put the person’s net worth back into that 10 million limit.
With this we don’t have a single quadrillion dollar company with a king that will soon enough fail, we’ll have thousands of multi million companies, thousands of owners of which some might fail, others won’t. Tax income will be so much that we can quite easily fund a giant social support system, free healthcare (physical and mental, eyes and teeth), free education, universal income to ensure everyone can live nicely
NOBODY has the right to be a billionaire, it is not a right, it is not a privilege, it should be forbidden and the very fact that it’s not is a cancer on humanity.
This “quadrillion” asshole is a clear and present danger to humanity, it’s the seed of a cancer that will destroy us all.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 3 days ago
We need other ways to discover shit on the internet.
I don’t know, maybe bring back the fucking webrings or something.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 3 days ago
The Internet Used to be a Place
There are still active webrings:
sadgrl.online webring directory digilord.neocities.org/webring webringworld.org brisray webring list
The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 3 days ago
And there’s still web directories hanging around, similar to the now dead dmoz site.
url.town and curlie.org for example
52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
I seek out out-of-the-way websites maintained by one or two people and then subscribe by RSS. RSS may be the only thing left keeping the web sane.
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 3 days ago
duckduckgo.com
demonsword@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I remember seeing a few days ago that Microsoft would be closing down its Bing API. I wonder how DDG will handle that.
Phegan@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Webrings were so good, I would spend hours clicking through them
Routhinator@startrek.website 3 days ago
Man I miss Webrings.
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Man it’s miss the nethernet
altphoto@lemmy.today 3 days ago
Like a block chain - like system where each site gets listed.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Oh Hells no, no blockchain. Like AI, its worthless, beyond extremely inefficient, and people have been desperately trying to cram it into everything where it doesn’t belong.
Search doesn’t need a block chain.
I’m imagining more a federated system, like Lemmy. Currently it aggregates posts from different servers, I can see these servers actively spiderii the Internet and together making a whole.