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>>you can't just wreck people's lives for a living and expect no consequences.

Just wondering how will people react to mass unemployment resulting from AI/Automation.

There better be lots of affluence going around. Food, Healthcare, and Fun. Or things will get ugly fast.

Yes there will, and i think it will be a terrible thing, helped by a terrible precedent we're setting now. If you don't want death to be the precedent, give people another option. He needed to be punished for what he did. None of us can put him in jail, he has too much money for that. Violence is the only recourse we're allowed, that's a terrible thing but it's true. I wish it wasn't like this

Well, the tax rate for people making (say) more than 2 million / year could just be 50%, and then increase by 10% for every 0 added.

$20 million -> 60%

$200 million -> 70%

$2 billion -> 80%

I think that would bring things under control without resorting to extrajudicial means. But apparently, that's completely impossible to achieve in the US, so here we are...

Are you aware that wealthy people sometimes employ the act of a “modest” salary and live off collateral loans from their 100s of millions to billions in stock, so as to not pay taxes?

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