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Cake day: December 28th, 2023
  • kidney_bean@lemmy.mltoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•Temporarily embarrassed millionaires pt. 2
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    10 months ago

    1. Political party promises taxes for billionaires

    2. Political party also promises to spend that money

    3. Party gets elected

    4. Party realizes that super rich people have enough resouces to avoid any tax they can come up with as a single country

    5. Party still wants to live up to the promises from 2, so they try to tax large corporations

    6. Same problem as 4. Fun fact by the way: The nice left colonialism-hating palistine-supporting irish are the ones most responsible for big tech not paying any taxes for doing business in europe. (Double irish with a dutch sandwich)

    7. Party turns to the “richest” people that cannot afford tax evasion.

    8. I pay close to the maximum tax rate although making far less than 100k per year without any noteworthy savings

    Of course it doesn’t have to go that way, I just want to point out there are reasons to be skeptical besides being a “Fuckin idiot”. Politics can turn good ideas into bad policies

  • kidney_bean@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.ml•Everything I need is still in in the old settings windows that haven't changed in 23 years
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    10 months ago

    I think after Windows 7 they tried to get into the mobile market for a while so they changed a few things to make Windows work with touch input. But then they realized that they were not up to the task of dealing with actual competition because it requires actually making a good product, so they retreated to their desktop comfort zone where they’ve had a monopoly since forever due to exclusive software and user habits and started to cash in on it by plastering everything with ads. Meanwhile, they pulled out the few skilled developers to have them work on cloud stuff with Azure, because at least after they accidentally lost the emails of the european parliament to a chinese intelligence service without any consequences they know that nothing threatens their dominance over the market

  • kidney_bean@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.ml•Tru
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    10 months ago

    True. But I kind of hoped lemmy would be different. After hearing about the evil algorithms of Youtube, Facebook, etc using fear and anger to keep you engaged with their platform, I came to hope that with a non profit federated system there would be more diverse discussions with more tolerance for different points of view. But as you said, it is basically just the internet average.

    After all, no evil corporate master plan is needed. It seems to me like people just like to live in filter bubbles if given the option.