Submitted 3 weeks ago by supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/15/california-billionaires-state-elections
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
I’d love big tech to lose
Big tech doubles down on a bad bet. It’s because they spend their lives in a dark room away from other people. Why would we look to computer programers to save us all? They are good with computers, not people. They belong in the back room, running the IT, not the country.
If you think engineering types are running Big Tech these days, you are not paying attention.
To wit: the vast majority of competent engineer friends and colleagues I know view LLM codegen crap as categorical snake oil. But all the C-suites are busy circlejerking about it and pumping that bubble.
The part you’re missing is that “Big Tech” is not those people. Yes, many engineers are stereotyped as that, which in turn leads to a field with those people in it, but “Big Tech” is largely CEOs. It’s accountants trying to get rich by using technology created by other people. Big Pharma is the same people, but using a different tool, and the same goes for corrupt auto manufacturers like GM and Ford.
Democracy in action on a grand scale.
Time to change, as already proven, democracy doesn’t work.
Unlimited political donations and money as speech doesn’t work.
Democracy is better than every alternative.
Which hasn’t been proven. But what has been proven, is that democracy doesn’t work. Mathematically or otherwise.
The US is hardly a good example for democracy.
But it’s the biggest, and look how corrupt it has become. You think that those big techs are stopping at the U.S.?
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What democracy?
jimmy90@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
the US
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The US isn’t a democracy