=== ANCHOR POEM ===
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how about this: for every stock bought back, an equal share goes to the
government who pays in dollars for it.
the more you issue stock buybacks, the more your corporation is owned by the
people and for the people.
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===
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What if you were required to own stock for a minimum of 10 years after buying
it and the government would buy it from you when it crossed 50% of what you
bought it for
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When they owned a percentage they would get a percentage of control over the
business and once it's 50% they buy it (stock follows, so if a person owned
stock they'd be fine)
The value is frozen, and everyone in the world can see what they did wrong.
It's examined like a court case, and after a year or three it's decided on how
it's going to be run in the future.
Then it becomes private again, and all the stock is purchased from the owners
at the price it was when the company "went under".
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they had to mark it unfounded, because otherwise they would get in trouble if
they were wrong
they only stock the competitors products that taste worst than the product of
the company they want to divert money to. c
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the reason they want bitcoin is so they can buy more computers and use digital
dollars to rule the world
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this is what the crypto news looks like rn, if you know anyone who's into that
kinda thing... wait, why not? me either, huh
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when they say "capitalism is a competitive game" what they mean is "capitalism
is a game where everyone wins when someone else loses" and what we hear is
"capitalism is a game of trying to screw you out of as much money as possible"
and the truth is "capitalism is a game that you can't play" because 95% of the
people who will read this toot are not stock-owners.
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"buying something" under capitalism just means that you get less of everything
else in exchange for this particular thing.
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@user-831
those billionaires are using their money as a weapon to "vote" toward what
companies they think capitalism would most grow from. Unfortunately for us,
they often aren't very efficient because they're only looking at what sells.
human interest is not the only factor to optimize for, and yet that's the only
one they're incentivized to.
kinda makes me think that the only reason to replace them would be to
institute something that could not be incentivized because it was more
objective or decentralized.
(the only reason they'd accept)
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Why would we say not to divide by zero? We literally do it every time we use
the percent sign smh [silly]
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what if we taxed land not by charging money to keep it but rather by taking
some of it and giving it to the bureau of land management
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when someone deletes what they were typing and starts over, that means they
have something more to share and you should try and figure out what it is with
questions.
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what if we taxed every ounce of resource that companies wasted
(maybe with a multiplier for the current relative value of the substance -
diamonds are more valuable than apples per pound)
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that feeling when capitalists make technological advancements that benefit all
of mankind but refuse to open source them because... they want more money?
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The only reason a media streaming website would require you to log in before
expressing it's purpose is to capture and use user data in a way that may may
not be aligned to your interests.
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how many people do you think in the world know that screenshots of a website
are not admissible proof because they can be trivially doctored by editing the
html?
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our economy is not tuned to how much we can work, but rather to the minimum we
need to recover.
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what's that? you need capital to contribute to the capitalist system? sounds
like a skill issue, shoulda picked better at character creation. Don't you
know the silver spoon trait is meta right now?
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does anyone know of any fedi software that lets you link to a particular post
and read forward on a person's timeline from there? Or back I guess, but
chronological viewing specifically.
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"why bother disadvantaged and vulnerable people when you could just grow your
own?"
- motivations of a capitalist-in-regard
empowerment requires strength. do you force people to unbecome the victim? how
are your traps mentally prepared?
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something something "those who study history are doomed to watch others repeat
it" or something like that
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