Joseph

[Joseph @GaySonDixonLine]

@PhantomArc_ @Errorrrr_101 @hasanthehun You're arguing with a wall. They care about platitudes and virtue signaling.

[Joseph @GaySonDixonLine]

@angelar59958132 You are engaging in the exact behavior every disability advocate advises against when talking about invisible disabilities.

[Joseph @GaySonDixonLine]

@Polymarket Jensen Huang's Wario

[Joseph @GaySonDixonLine]

@AJMattis @kierfarmer @skycomet1 I'm no fan of the Tories and Sunak. Making cuts to fund tax cuts is ghoulish. Cuts should fund infrastructure and education, things that will benefit everyone while helping growth.

[Joseph @GaySonDixonLine]

@AJMattis @kierfarmer @skycomet1 I know that. I'm using those as an example because it shows why empathy is a faulty framework. I don't disagree that it has utility but it isn't the only goal either.

[Joseph @GaySonDixonLine]

@AJMattis @kierfarmer @skycomet1 Empathy is fine. It just isn't a great framework for making nation defining decisions. Let's say we cut cancer research to reduce child poverty right now, you could help the lives of hungry children but cause massive amounts of preventable cancer deaths.

[Joseph @GaySonDixonLine]

@AJMattis @kierfarmer @skycomet1 Rifkin has been discredited. I know of his work and he's an idealist.

[Joseph @GaySonDixonLine]

@AJMattis @kierfarmer @skycomet1 Humans formed bonds because we evolved from social primates that realized our survival depended on being in groups. It's what allowed us to rise to the top of the food chain. It does not exist for the purpose of being 'nice', it exists for survival.

[Joseph @GaySonDixonLine]

@AJMattis @kierfarmer @skycomet1 Speak ill about him I don't care lol.

[Joseph @GaySonDixonLine]

@AJMattis @kierfarmer @skycomet1 All of this is very nice and I'm sure you're nice but nice doesn't really account for anything. I think healthcare workers should have higher compensation but CEO's have a skillset that you vastly underrate.

[Joseph @GaySonDixonLine]

@AJMattis @kierfarmer @skycomet1 I'm open to discuss actual ideas or you can just moralize over a picture of a dead comedian. I know one of them is much easier for you.

[Joseph @GaySonDixonLine]

@AJMattis @kierfarmer @skycomet1 Hard work isn't inherently as valuable. Rarer skillsets are worth more. I would actually like capitalism to become far meritocratic. When I propose investment I'd like pathways for exceptional poor students to get free university. I don't believe the system is infallible.

[Joseph @GaySonDixonLine]

@LRSerling @ProgDirectorate I grew up in a working class town in the north of England and this is off the mark. I lived on a street filled with people on welfare that also had less than legal cash operations on the side.

[Joseph @GaySonDixonLine]

@AJMattis @kierfarmer @skycomet1 I gravitated towards it because it's a stupid comment. There will always be a hierarchy, humans naturally develop hierarchies. I'm yet to hear of a better one than rewarding hard work but I'm open to suggestions.

[Joseph @GaySonDixonLine]

@Eli21__ @bogcheese8922 You're doing the same thing he does. I don't think it's bad that he lives in a mansion in Hollywood.

[Joseph @GaySonDixonLine]

@AJMattis @kierfarmer @skycomet1 In what universe is 'giving the right people who work hard the right rewards' a bad thing? We simply need more wealth if we want to do any meaningful redistribution, which I'm sure you're in favor of.

[Joseph @GaySonDixonLine]

@AJMattis @kierfarmer @skycomet1 'Not at the expense of living standards' is where we'll disagree. We need growth, more money in the economy that continues to regenerate. Taxing wealth doesn't do that. The wealth isn't actually in their pockets, it's in the stock market and in their companies.

[Joseph @GaySonDixonLine]

@Eli21__ @bogcheese8922 He has a mansion in the most desirable place to live on the planet, drives a sports car and has an entire wardrobe filled with designer clothes. I don't begrudge him for that but he's obviously insecure about it.

[Joseph @GaySonDixonLine]

@AJMattis @kierfarmer @skycomet1 I agree things aren't working. Your suggestions are impractical at best. Rooting out fraud is complicated and time consuming and I doubt people will be happy about a lot of the locations it's found in. We need a strong military. Tax gap is 60B which is substantial but not enough.

[Joseph @GaySonDixonLine]

@AJMattis @kierfarmer @skycomet1 He's whipping up shit in a kettle. Absolute babble.