nir.eth
@nir
Maybe I’m crazy, but I consider myself a capitalist and just don’t really understand this logic. Feels like being a reasonable logical person with nuanced opinions has completely faded. All that’s left is Mamdani or Thiel. Gemini’s black founding fathers or Grok’s mechahitler. Pick a side https://x.com/garrytan/status/1942992514954224025?s=46
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Evan
@evangreenberg
I’ve been talking to many socialists about thing on here for the last week. It comes down to the black and white question of should our goal as a society be to eliminate all billionaires or to make everyone a billionaire? I’m not saying either is going to happen, but the policy decisions based on your choice are very different. That being said, I think best case is that technology could make it so costs trend to zero and that having a billion dollars doesn’t actually buy you much more that having less. To me, that’s a definition of everyone “being billionaires” and is a much better goal than redistribution wealth so that billionaires don’t exist
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nir.eth
@nir
I'm definitely more pro-billionaire than anti. The problem with the future case you laid out is that the value of human labor will most likely trend to 0 much faster than the cost of living. We just have to be honest about that. I don't think the question should be that black and white. I believe in equal opportunity, and I don't think we get there by advocating for more billionaires. Not sure I have the answer, but maybe it's something along the lines of more millionaires and roughly the same amount of billionaires.
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Evan
@evangreenberg
All I’m saying is that if we try to have the cost of living trend to zero faster than the value of human labor, at least we have a chance! And the only way that’s going to happen is to enable large sums to be bet on crazy ideas that if they pay off will create billionaires. Any caps on what can be earned will stifle the investments needed for amazing outcomes because once you get to a number, you’d just hoard your wealth if you can’t go above it
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