When I read comments like yours I always wonder why the commenter isn’t wildly successful at creating wealth for themselves and jobs for many. Why haven’t you? Why haven’t you built a big business and started giving money away beyond what the tax and regulatory laws call for?
I mean being the second and tenth richest men alive sets an awfully high bar. Let’s be real, if either of us were even remotely close to that, neither of us would be commenting here.
It has been presented as a law enforcement action to bring a wanted criminal to justice. What do you mean by “televised sham trial”? Are you suggesting the US manufactured evidence?
Have you considered this is part of a negotiated exit?
Why $1bn? Is that $1bn in cash? Cash plus rare gems, excluding Sierra gold nuggets? Equities plus commercial real estate over 10 floors tall? What makes 1% a good threshold? Why not 4? Why not tax all assets on a recurring basis? Do California taxpayers still trust their government will properly and responsibly spend a $100bn tax windfall? What happens when that is spent and deficits return? Another “one time tax” on multimillionaires?
Just making a point about the poor handling of existing tax income and spending discipline, as well as the very arbitrary nature of these tax-seeking initiatives.
I often wonder if leaving out “illegal” or “illegally present” in statements like “dramatically stepped up deportations of immigrants” is intentional, or if there’s some nuance that’s just not obvious to those of us who legally immigrated.
I mean, ok, but “scoop” is a bit much. Every fact of the deal to acquire was detailed months ago.
What would be a real scoop is reporting more details on the vast number of Bytedance employees that have been literally installed in the “USDS” organization in recent weeks. It has quickly become indistinguishable from CCP-controlled Bytedance. Allegiances are sus.
We are generally rather negatively judgy towards some mistakes (the ones that indicate you're an idiot) versus positive towards others (some mistakes show taste or talent).
You know it's true though. It's not like there are opportunities and people aren't taking them. The economy is ice because the only things getting significant capital are data centers. Data centers don't employ and create careers for a lot of people. AI is killing off entry level positions.
It's not AI, it is the illusion of AI while companies keep doing wave after wave of layoffs and offshore to maintain stock performance. Organizing, unionizing, and having more power against management and companies is the only way to prevent this legally. The beatings will continue till the stock performance improves.
> Yale researchers say that despite the anxiety about AI taking people's jobs, there's very little evidence of it actually happening. Economists with Yale's Budget Lab, a non-partisan policy research group, took a look at how US employment has changed since the November 2022 debut of ChatGPT and the sequent release of other generative AI models. They saw nothing to be alarmed about. "Overall, our metrics indicate that the broader labor market has not experienced a discernible disruption since ChatGPT’s release 33 months ago, undercutting fears that AI automation is currently eroding the demand for cognitive labor across the economy," said Martha Gimbel, Molly Kinder, Joshua Kendall, and Maddie Lee in a report summary.
> While AI systems have saturated many existing benchmarks, we find that state-of-the-art AI agents perform near the floor on RLI. The best-performing model achieves an automation rate of only 2.5%. This demonstrates that contemporary AI systems fail to complete the vast majority of projects at a quality level that would be accepted as commissioned work.
If we were living a hundred years earlier, a lot of people would be hanging from lamp posts.
The only things preventing this from happening today is knowing the FBI can do their job fairly well. Reasonable people don't want to sit in cage for doing what must be done.
That's not the only thing, not even in the USA. The New Deal happened, and things were a lot worse before it than they are even now for those entitled to SNAP payments — though of course, if SNAP stays off the way I suspect it will, and if the undocumented agricultural workers stay out of the USA, this may change very hard and very fast, and those invented stories about "immigrants eating pets" may turn into actual true stories about ICE agents being cannibalised, thanks to how hunger works and how the 2nd amendment seems to be part of the American New New Testament with Gospels According to John, Ben, Alex, and Tom.
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