Think of it like Reddit, but instead of being entirely controlled by one company, parts of it are controlled by different people. All these parts (or servers) come together (or federate ), allowing you to see everything people post on their part, and allowing you to interact with it from your own.
The issue is that a good number of products are only available through Amazon, and a metric ton of services that people depend on are owned by Google.
Just saying "don't use Amazon or Google" is almost tantamount to saying "don't eat food" or "don't drink water".
Should that be the case? No. But right now, it is.
That's still an AI, just derived from a human person.
Honestly, if I was never really able to experience the life of a normal person, and craved that experience for even a moment, I'd probably be willing to drop a lot of money too.
Always gotta remember:
Ask a socialist why they hate capitalism and they'll give you a dozen reasons.
Ask a capitalist why they hate socialism and they'll describe capitalism.
Because this is basically the same thing as the Fugitive Slave Act. Just swap slaves for pregnant women.
I'd say it counts for at least half-credit.
I use Sync, but I also use Librewolf, so I suppose that makes me the worst kind of person.
A centrist.
First Past The Post voting means that if you have one right-wing candidate get 40% of the vote, and three left-wing candidates get 20% each, the right-winger wins.
It's not the system we want, but it's the system we've got, and until we have the power to change that, it's the rules we'll have to work with.
A quick reminder to everyone that MySpace still exists.
Just because the link doesn't 404 doesn't mean that something ain't dying or dead.
The issue with a flat tax system, though, is that the value behind each dollar is different for different classes of people.
$20 is chump change for a billionaire. $20 for a middle class person might be some nice takeout for an evening. $20 could mean whether or not a working poor person can eat that day, or if they have to save what money they have for rent or electricity.
A flat tax system isn't actually "flat", not in practice. It'd be more accurate to describe it as "regressive".
drbluefall
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It's also the world banking system for several billion people, and not a few hundred thousand gamblers.