Melinda Gates warns social media platforms are due a "reckoning" for not censoring enough

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[–]president_camacho 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

Every single billionaire should receive a billionaire tax sufficient to reduce them to millionaire status.

[–]wecandobetter 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Why?

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

if they have too much money they use it to bribe politicians into making the system unfair

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Yes, as someone who was heavily involved in local politics, you are right. Millionaires play the local scene, and some are trustworthy. Billionaires hire proxies for the state/federal scene, and none of them are trustworthy. Money runs the game folks.

[–]wecandobetter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It always has. But I must say this...I actually somewhat prefer that the world be run by a shadowy kabal of billionaires with a long term vested interest in peace and stability than by a series of volatile, ego-driven politicians with a timeline vantagepoint of no more than 8 years.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Peace and stability? For them, and any who are willing to be repugnant with them.

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Another one who thinks the likes of Bill Gates just has billions of dollars sat in a bank account somewhere.