every American worker pays into the social security system as a tax on income.

One irritating note on this: there’s a limit to how much social security tax you pay per year. So if you’re making a lot of income, you just stop paying this tax partway through the year.

This is pants on head stupid and regressive. It should be the other way around. Your first, let’s say $10,000 should be exempt from the tax, and it should get steeper as income goes up.

Rich guy absolutely does not need the bump in take home pay from hitting the cap. Poor guy definitely could use the extra income early income not being taxed.

I’m just so mad all the time about people licking the boots of the rich. They don’t need breaks! They’re rich! They’re going to be fine!

Right! Resigning is not enough! If a regular person leaked secrets they would face more damning consequences.

I’m thinking what Musk would have done at the end of endgame. Certainly not a heroic sacrifice.

They believe in “there must be in-groups for the law to protect but not bind, and out-groups for the law to bind but not protect”.

Reddit is a for profit private capitalist enterprise. It has no soul and no sense of right and wrong. I’m not saying we should execute their leadership, but i wouldn’t be mad if they all died

It would have been really bad but I would have been briefly ecstatic if like all the key Republicans were just rounded up and shot for being traitors.

Probably be better off overall.

I am skeptical of things that sound too good to be true, and also I feel like the current US government would fuck it up, but maybe things won’t be terrible forever.

It’s like the “We’re all trying to find the guy who did this” skit with the guy in the hotdog suit and the hotdog car.

I remember talking to a coworker at a tech startup once. He was leaving to go work for some like military intelligence spy company. I was like, “But what if they have you work on something fucked up, like spying on innocent people, or sending drones to kill people?” He was like, big shrug, the pay is good.

Some people just don’t care about other people. He was nice to people he knew, when it didn’t really cost him anything.

Our society isn’t really set up to discourage that kind of worldview. That kind of selfish person typically thrives.

This is a deeply off topic whataboutism that only serves to distract from how horrible the trump administration is. You are benefitting the conservatives.

I read this and the other linked article about how bad musk is at poker and I’m so mad now. He’s such a fucking fool.

Even if they all stupided themselves to death today, it would take years to repair the damage. Some of the damage can’t be repaired. And we’d still be behind where we could have been if we had had competent leadership to begin with. Or even just less bad leadership.

We should never forgive the Republicans. Every one of them should be a pariah.

All the people who were mad about Clinton’s email that aren’t furious about this are hypocrits that should never be taken seriously again.

If you think ‘voluntary’ is acceptable for anything important you want corporations to do, you have no business making decisions about real life. If it’s voluntary, they’ll only do it if it benefits them.

You’d revive that program over the bloody corpses of many conservatives. Which, actually, yeah let’s do that. A lot of other problems go away if the right wing bleeds out.

Labor hasn’t organized enough to say “Fuck this shit” and demand a livable wage in exchange for their labor.

Meanwhile, management is salivating at the idea of firing most people and replacing them with AI.

The ownership class needs to go. Workers need to at the very least unionize, but should also take things further and seize control of what they’ve built.

I was just saying the other day that shit might escalate to car bombs. I don’t really want to live in a world where I have to worry about that, but I do want musk and friends to explosively die.

If those Internet duds that get mad about black people in video games spent like half that energy being mad about, like, wage theft, we’d be so much better off.

And is it logical for that to change based on whether it’s a protest or advocacy?

…yes? Context matters. My go to example is “cutting someone open and taking out an organ is fucked up and a crime, unless you’re like a doctor doing surgery in a hospital”

I feel like sometimes people try to handle human situations like they need to write a perfect algorithm that can run in BASIC.

If they thought about things and came to good conclusions afterwards, they probably wouldn’t be driving this kind of car to begin with. The people who are driving it are probably not good thinkers.