Isn’t it ironic or perhaps hypocritical that you’re speaking about Japan in such generalities?
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hark@lemmy.worldto
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10·8 days agoThat’s where the magic plagiarism LLM comes in to launder the code.
Don’t forget about blackstone.
hark@lemmy.worldto
Oddly Satisfying@lemmy.world•The biggest stock the shop had yetEnglish
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Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•The US auto industry is in big trouble. China now makes 75 percent of all electric vehicles sold anywhere on earth. US automakers make around 5 percent.
2·13 days agoActually I am the one engaging in banter and you are the one with the hurt butt. Checkmate.
hark@lemmy.worldto
Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•The US auto industry is in big trouble. China now makes 75 percent of all electric vehicles sold anywhere on earth. US automakers make around 5 percent.
2·13 days agoIt’s good to be irrelevant to Americans because otherwise Americans will shit up the place.
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5·13 days agoConservatives are the same the world over.
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1·19 days agoWhy is trump afraid of the court if it’d only be used against poor countries?
hark@lemmy.worldto
Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world•Democrats will rewrite Trump's history and praise him for being a great president once he passes away too
20·20 days agoA decent human being calls out destructive people because tolerating them only leads to destruction of society. Him being dead doesn’t matter, the calling out is to let others know that his actions in life were unacceptable and that they shouldn’t be normalized.
Democrats thought it was more important to support genocide than to help fix any of those other issues, which really puts into question their sincerity in actually addressing those other issues.
hark@lemmy.worldto
United Kingdom@feddit.uk•Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age'English
1·22 days agoThe report won’t go viral because it’s a 100+ page report. Everyone plays a different role, Gary’s role is to raise awareness of the solution of wealth tax and push for an implementation. He’s done a great job at that. I have watched the documentary written about in that article and I agree it wasn’t good, he didn’t push back enough most of the time. His skill was limited in that respect, but his skill at getting clicks is still good to give traction and momentum to the idea of a wealth tax where others can pick up the torch and carry it to the goal.
Farage does not advocate for a wealth tax and Gary has talked about Farage multiple times on his channel, pointing out that he is taking advantage of the situation where institutions and the elites are indeed corrupt, but will not implement a solution to fix it and will actually do the opposite. I don’t see how that messaging benefits Farage. If you make a wealth tax a partisan issue, then you’re cutting along party lines rather than class lines and that will mean people in poorer classes not supporting a wealth tax simply because of allegiance to their party of choice.
Additionally, Gary has talked about working with economists and politicians. He doesn’t claim to be the only one with all the answers.
hark@lemmy.worldto
United Kingdom@feddit.uk•Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age'English
21·23 days agoYou claim it’s not about stats and yet their issue is that he didn’t want to get dragged into a pointless argument over the minutia of some chart. If these hosts agree that wealth inequality is a problem, then it’s an established point that doesn’t need to be rehashed through arguments over a chart. Gary knows this, his audience knows this, the hosts know this, and we know this, and many are living through this. What purpose does arguing over a chart do other than to try to distract from the message? If you want a strong message that resonates with people, you have to keep it simple and straightforward.
Whether he’s a grifter or not is a matter of opinion. Dismissing his message by calling him a grifter is a textbook example of ad hominem. His message is simple:
- There is massive wealth inequality.
- Wealth inequality tends to get worse since the more assets one owns, the more they can use that as leverage to obtain even more assets.
- A wealth tax addresses the heart of the problem by taxing wealth directly.
What is your issue with these key points? That he hasn’t spent enough time in the chart mines? That you think he’s a grifter? Clearly his method of communication has been effective in drawing attention on the issue while offering a solution and I think that’s a great thing.
hark@lemmy.worldto
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1·23 days agoI can run an open weights amazon from my house?
hark@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•OpenAI could reportedly run out of cash by mid-2027 — analyst paints grim picture after examining the company's financesEnglish
1·23 days agoThat’s where advertising through AI comes in. People relying on AI suffer from cognitive deterioration which is the perfect opportunity to sneak in advertisements disguised as suggestions through AI responses.
hark@lemmy.worldto
United Kingdom@feddit.uk•Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age'English
1·24 days agoThose two hosts agree there are problems with economic inequality, so then what’s the point of the graph? Is the graph showing there isn’t an inequality problem? If so, doesn’t that mean the hosts themselves are dismissing the graph?
hark@lemmy.worldto
United Kingdom@feddit.uk•Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age'English
2·24 days agoWhen you want your message to reach the masses, you have to oversimplify, otherwise it gets bogged down in details that ultimately may not even matter. People are having trouble with basic cost of living: shelter, healthcare, education, and even food. Focusing so heavily on numbers and graphs is how you get clowns claiming that it’s just a “vibecession” just because some dumb metric like GDP or their arbitrary basket of goods looks fine, meanwhile these people can’t afford the basics.
The problem is that the field of economics is biased so heavily towards policies that benefit the rich because that is how you get funding. Economists are largely in servitude to the rich and that is why they consider an effective tax on the rich “bad economics”. What these past decades have clearly shown that catering to the rich does not work. Why do you think they’re so vehemently against a wealth tax? If it was so ineffective then they wouldn’t care about a wealth tax getting established.
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1·24 days agoHow would they do that without facing the wrath of the US?








Couldn’t Japanese people who discriminate against foreigners make the same argument about culture? The sign could be used to exclude based on assumptions of culture.