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  • I’m a staunch Bernie Sanders supporter. I have worked for his team.

    I don’t know how else to say this: Joe Biden’s performance last night was a caricature of every negative stereotype the opposition throws at him.

    I’m really disheartened that my fellow Democrats don’t see the glaring issues from the debate. Did you watch it? This question might seem inflammatory, but I am genuinely concerned.

    I desperately wanted Trump to be frustrated by having his mic muted, but I never expected Biden to become the caricature the GOP was hoping for. Unfortunately, that’s what happened.

    Ignoring what just happened is dangerous. It’s this kind of blind dissent that got us Trump in the first place. We’re in trouble. If we ignore it now and end up with Trump again, the blame will be on those who are ignoring the problem right now.
















  • Bro I’d literally be impressed if we set a 1000x cap.

    100x would be a reasonable utopian goal from where we are today.

    5x is hard to even fathom. Especially when there exists a ~3x gap in minimum wages across the country.

    I propose the minimum wage goes to $250/hr. Maximum wage goes to $2500/hr. You can make between 500k and 5m a year. The only catch is that 60% of it gets taxed up to 1M And 80% gets taxed beyond that. If you somehow do get more that $5M in a year, every dollar after 5M is taxed at a rate of 99.99%.

    So you can make 100k - 200k after taxes and be poor.

    You can make 200k - 1M after taxes and be the upper middle class.

    Musks 46B would be… 5.6M after all taxes applied.

    That seems reasonable.