• hypnoton@discuss.online
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    4 months ago

    Wealth is only a prerequisite up to a point, beyond which wealth transitions into a luxury as opposed to something life-giving or dignifying.

    I can accept accumulations up to somewhere between $50 and $150 million.

    People with extreme accumulations have to be watched and regulated if we want a society that optimizes for broad dignity.

    If you want to optimize for peak dignity, monarchies with unlimited accumulations are the best for that.

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      4 months ago

      If humans constantly tempted by wealth and power, who then fall victim to it, have their right to privacy infringed, then they’ll go right on feeding their addictions, no matter the cost of maintenance of privacy?

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        I don’t view privacy as an unconditional right. Also perfect privacy is impossible.

        If you are a small individual whose decisions will not make big waves in society, you can be completely anonymous as far as I am concerned.

        If you command great resources and can singlehandedly significantly affect my world with a stroke of a pen, I need to watch you, because you are dangerous to my world.

        Right now our society is exactly upside down in this aspect.