tax them until they learn to mind their own business
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90% wealth tax is needed
Anyone with over 10 million dollars in wealth should be legally classified as a dragon and anyone stealing from their hoard shall not be punishable under the law.
Not so fun fact: The absolute richest dragons in all of fantasy, excluding Smaug, only have a net worth of several hundred million dollars. A Red Elder Wyrm will have, on average, around 2.5-3 million gold pieces of wealth, with an absolute maximum of 5 million gold pieces. That means that the absolute greediest, and richest, type of dragon, by far, only has between 100,000 to 500,000 oz worth of gold.
Smaug being the absolute outlier because he had somewhere between 5 to 10 billion dollars worth of gold.
Now if you are wondering why I'm making a big deal about this, it is because 500,000 oz of gold is only worth about 1.1 billion US dollars. But that is the absolute outlier of the greediest type of dragon that there is. Still only looking at Chaotic Evil Red Elder Wyrms, the average would only be about 3.5 million gold pieces, or a mere 350,000 oz of gold. That's only about $600,000,000 and that is just the most average of the absolute greediest manefestations of greed that our limited minds could imagine. Most dragons would be absolutely fine with between $1,000,000 to $10,000,000. The literal manefestations of greed don't need more than $10,000,000 according to every treasure table.
Those people that have more than 100 million dollars have already passed the greed alignment chart into Chaotic Evil. They are damn near caricatures of dragons at this point.
Free press in the USA? LOL, it becomes more and more difficult every time a US oligarch buys a news outlet.
Rep. Ted Lieu, a Democrat from California, in his own tweet on the news wrote, “The first step towards fascism is when the free press cowers in fear.”
I don't know if this is the free press cowering, or the free press being bought out by rich people. Either way, it's some bullshit.
Private ownership of a news outlet breaks every definition of "free" in "free press".
A "free press" no longer exists.
Eh.. no? Most free press is privately owned. Just not by billionaires who influence the content.
So government owned news is better?
When the billionaires who own the media and the highest level of government are in bed together so long as the government continues to tailor it's policies to ensure that the wealthy stay wealthy, then the line is so blurred it might as well not exist.
Maybe non-profit would be best. Incentives to encourage good journalism, but not trying to raise the bottom line every year, chopping costs and spamming mass amounts of AI garbage because I'd bet 100 shitty articles is worth more than 1 good article for their bottom line.
Easy access links to the journalists other works, peer reviews from other non-profit and about me profiles can also help people discern bias.
I'm no expert though, so I'm sure someone has tried it and found making money is better for their paychecks
What if it already exists, but you, like many others, don't read it and instead continue to passively consume the very media you're complaining about? Making better journalism doesn't mean multiple generations of people hooked on social-media-feed dopamine hits will read it.
I'm subbed to my local NPR's daily top news stories. Highly recommend folks in the US look to see if their local station has a similar program or find the closest one.
Free press is your uncle's Facebook rants
“The most consequential election in our country, a choice between Fascism and Democracy, and you sit out? Cowards. Unethical, fearful cowards,” wrote one reader.
Haha, yep.
Honestly don’t know what’s worse. People who don’t vote or people who vote 3rd party in protest.
You are worse than both, because you're insulting them which in turn undermines your own goals.
Oh Jeffrey.... that's not how you're aupposed to run a newspaper.
NGL, I had to reread the headline because my brain got too excited.
Sigh
Canceled my friday.
Where are the conspiracy theorists when there is actually something going on? I guess they stand back and stand by...
Sigh.
Canceled my subscription.
Just spoke to my parents. Uninterrupted subscribers since '73.
I called them right after canceling my own subscription and they'd already canceled theirs.
I hope Bezos is happy losing 51-year patrons of his paper.
Look, that's honestly quite sad and very telling of the way things are, but I audibly snorted at the idea of Jeff Bezos noticing his income slightly lower this week, panicking, scrambling to find The Borbendorfs' payment. A single tear wells up, but he wipes it away frantically. Never let them see. Never let them know how it hurts.
I certainly much hope he has to justify that decision to a jury and later a deity
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