Higher taxes for anyone earning over $100k

Higher cost of living, and lower quality of life for anyone earning below $60k

Politicians and corporations earn billions in profits on UBI distribution fees, and incentive spending/automatic deposit programs (contribute your UBI directly to health insurance and it’s tax exempt!)

Nope.

Even the Jan 6 one didn’t really change our quality of life. And damn, that was a protest, by American standards.

Less than 1% of the population, that’s for sure.

You remember the last protest about school shootings? Neither do I.

No.

Because us Americans don’t care about school shootings.

I’d rather the government invest in S&P500 going higher.

You overestimate how many people actually care about mass shootings in America.

I draw the line at things that directly impact my net worth.

> Do you not care about global warming because you're probably not going to experience an unsurvivable wet bulb temperature where you happen to live in your lifetime?

Correct. I don’t care about global warming or climate change.

Yeah it is.

Unless you work at Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, or Meta.

Your stocks/RSU are at risk of losing significant value.

Do you think US$2,000 is a lot of money?

The one doing the saving.

Surely the one needing help should not be the to decide. They will always say “I’m worth saving”.

Only finite land available in high QoL areas such as Orange County California, New York City, or Hawaii, depending on your lifestyle.

You want to tell us who is allowed to live there?

Because sure as hell won’t fit all 345 million people in America with a desire for higher QoL

Anyone holding passive index ETFs in their brokerage / 401k / pension accounts.

If you don’t like it, then change providers.

If all providers do it, then you must pay to avoid advertisements.

Or, complain to your elected government representatives.

What’s that? Your Chase/Amex credit card gives you a monthly/annual credit? Ok. No more complaints then.

Is everyone entitled to a high quality of life?

If not, then who draws the line as to who deserves what benefit in life? You?

War has existed for all of human history.

Why do you think humans today are special and will eliminate war?

The only acceptable answer is: you want hope.

You must be new to tech.

EU has the right to privacy.

Apple also has the right to not conduct business in EU.

If EU doesn’t like it, they can build their own sovereign software.

Governments around the world already keep many locations/facilities secret and hidden from the public.

They will simply arrest you, or worse, just kill you.

What’s your solution to that?

Isn’t that more damming for Google?

Invent the boat, don’t know how to use it, abandon it, then someone else comes along and steals your boat.