Harold Meyerson flags that founding father Benjamin Franklin made a persuasive argument for the wealth tax, in a letter to Robert Morris, then the richest man in America and the financier of the revolution.
His basic argument: Public laws and society made you rich, so the public can decide what to do with the wealth we all collectively built. If you don't like that, he says, then leave society and go live with "the Savages." (Of course, the indigenous people of the time would not have allowed such greed in their societies, either.)
Happy early 4th!
I’m really frugal and have worked hard to have no real debt and a flawless credit report and with the way things are going I just keep thinking… why?
No upward mobility, never gonna get to buy a house, why shouldn’t I just drown in credit card debt and have a blast?
Those licenses are revocable at the discretion of the distributor. I know no one but me reads these things but media companies have been doing this shady shit for a while now and it’s not just Sony
I don’t know why everyone’s just getting mad at Sony (or many other distributors of digital media) now.
EULAs and Membership Agreements have had clauses in them for more than a decade stipulating that you are purchasing a “license” to view or play your purchased content,
@ollkorrect0 I write a lot of documentation at work (IT) and today was the first time in years I’ve felt comfortable marking something I spent 35+ hours on “Complete”
@X_tinek Good evening, I’m with the Reasonable Democrats. Please invite me into your home so I can tell you why better things aren’t possible and any lifeline we have left to offer you will be means-tested into oblivion
Some of this is true but the fight x data centers very much is about data centers. The DC north of Milwaukee takes over a minute to drive by at highway speeds. They jack up our utility costs & create dirty energy infrastructure. You're asking *us* to subsidize *your* consumption.