A tax system like the one that lifted the families of these rich trolls before they lobbied to tear it all down.
Watch us make tons of money off technology that was initially funded by government because the rich, as usual, didn’t want to invest in it themselves.
IBM got gifted what would today be billions in handouts by being the only seller of machines produced originally by taxes.
It’s a mathematical fact how that all shook out for that entire generation: benefited immensely from government socialism. Then lobbied to take it away from the next generation, acting instead like a grifting middle man on their agency.
Let’s build a world that does that handout shit for everyone.
Do we build iPhone because of markets or because holy shit this is cool?
Fuck these outdated semantics for what we do shit. These guys aren’t gods.
When it comes to workers, the deep economic thinking is that money isn’t something that drives performance. When it comes to the back-scratching world of corporate governance, cash is king.
The public sector demonstrates that you don’t need to pay excessive salaries for many types of executive workers. The most senior generals in the military make $300k. The most senior executives of government agencies tend to make $150-250k depending on geography. The no-name CEO of some small hospital network makes $3M.