Indeed, How can we live life without enriching billionaires? You can’t even get sick without doing so. And that is the problem with this late stage capitalism. Every aspect of our lives is subject to exploitation, and it has become difficult to opt out. As a result, the share of our total wealth owned by the richest keeps growing. (https://inequality.org/article/billionaire-wealth-concentrat...)
We should open the LLCs registries so that when they have to actually spend the money the seller can know that they are loaded and ask them for 1000x the price.
I know it seems like something out of a Banana Republic but when Musk or Bezos Gulfstream G800 is approaching to land it seems crazy to me that Tower doesn't shoot its shot and keep them in air indefinetly until they send a wire through.
When I say tower I mean both the airport infrastructure as a whole as well as individual Air Traffic Controllers.
Every worker these people encounter during their lives should shoot their shot because one successful "blackmail" could make them set for life and unlike the employees at the multi trillion dollar corproation they presede a say ATC is a unique point of authority who holds power over the billionaire at that determinate moment
Same with cops etc.
See interaction between Ellison and cop in Hawaii :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj-8UqcSJDY
With open LLCs registry people could be effectively able to check the ownership of every credit card and adjust the price of every good and service according to the pockets of the person or entity buying it
HN is my only social media now but I’m considering moving on — I just enjoy the tech info and occasionally talking to strangers.
kellystonelake•3mo ago
bigyabai•3mo ago
Your consent towards using certain services is really just virtue signalling. In a lot of ways you're contributing to the monoculture problem by relying on Substack (or HN, for that matter) to propagate your opinion.
kellystonelake•3mo ago
actionfromafar•3mo ago
Yay, I guess?
bigyabai•3mo ago
It's as true for Twitter as it is for Bluesky as it is for Substack as it is for Hacker News. If you've invested your identity into any of these sites, you ought to realize that there is no light at the end of the tunnel. Negotiation is all for naught, you either own your words or you don't.
defrost•3mo ago
> Unless you are willing to abandon iPhones, Macs, Windows PCs and Android devices
might pose for some, in my particular case to abandon these things I'd first have to take them up.
* To clarify, I do have Windows OS images in VM's that are either isolated or remote and I do have Android OS in two dumbed down smart TV's that are network isolated to either live TV signal from air or local network digital media.
JumpinJack_Cash•3mo ago
A street becoming a one way street or a replanning might not be as sexy as what happens at the National Level especially with Trump in the WH (and in the past Clinton) but it actually has an impact on people's lives and it gives people impacted a relatively high capability of influencing what happens compared to National politics which is the equivalent of urinating in the ocean