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Palantir CEO, With a Straight Face, Warns That Wealth Tax Will Cause Mass Surveillance (futurism.com)

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[–] DreamAccountant@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

You're trying to be fair while they are hanging you by the toes, beating you with a rake, and then catching the nickels that fall out.

Then they use that money to buy more rakes, and do that to everyone you know until they've robbed the entire world.

They're not planning a fair fight. They never have fought fair once in their entire lifetime. The more you fight fair, the more people die horribly.

[–] Potocobe@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago

How is taxing someone an unreasonable amount of money based on what seems to be an arbitrary gross calculation of their apparent wealth with the intention of taking their assets to pay for it fighting fair?

To actually be fair, I would prefer my government be more fair than less fair as a general rule.