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JEFF BEZOS SAYS: "WE DON'T HAVE A REVENUE PROBLEM IN THIS COUNTRY. WE HAVE A SPENDING PROBLEM."
"A nurse in Queens who makes $75,000 a year pays more than $12,000 a year in taxes."
His suggestion:
"How about we start by having the nurse in Queens not pay taxes at all? We shouldn't be asking this nurse in Queens to send money to Washington. They should be sending her an apology."
The math behind it: "The bottom half of income earners in this country pay only 3% of the taxes."
He added the US already has "the most progressive tax system in the world. The top 1% of taxpayers pay 40% of all the tax revenue."
Jeff Bezos: "If I do my job right, the value to society and civilization from my for-profit companies will be much, much larger than the good that I do with my charitable giving."
Is what's happening with AI in Africa a genuine partnership?
Or is it the oldest story on this continent β wearing a new technology?
What would it actually take to change it?
Tell me what you think.
And follow β this conversation is just getting started.
#AfricaAI #DataSovereignty #DigitalColonialism #OwnershipEconomy #AfricaRising #Ubuntu #BuildingAfrica
African workers are training OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta's AI models right now.
African voices. African languages. African data.
Building AI that will be owned in California. Sold back to Africa. At a price Africa cannot set.
The Africa Report called it this week: "The recolonisation nobody is naming."
They're right. π§΅
The question nobody is asking at the Africa CEO Forum this week:
Not "how do we adopt AI?"
But "how do we OWN the AI we are training?"
Because those are not the same question. And the answer to the second one determines whether the AI era lifts this continent or extracts from it.