I mean if 100 people were stranded on a desert island that had a massive freshwater lake and a huge population of wild boars and one guy tried to say that he owned the whole lake and all the boars then the 99 would put him at the bottom of a pit and, if he was lucky, not fill it back up again. - ThreadSky

juliusgoat.bsky.social • 1 day ago

I mean if 100 people were stranded on a desert island that had a massive freshwater lake and a huge population of wild boars and one guy tried to say that he owned the whole lake and all the boars then the 99 would put him at the bottom of a pit and, if he was lucky, not fill it back up again.

Reposted from A.R. Moxon

If one guy holds most of the tech people rely on, it is a vulnerability, but also it's one guy: as a global population we should be able to easily just take it from him, so it seems to me the real vulnerability is an internalized belief that private ownership is more sacrosanct than human thriving.

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jammaj.bsky.social•1 day ago

Someone, and I’m not saying who, is fucking up so badly right now, that they will quite possibly end up getting their space launch and global satellite network assets seized on national security grounds.

jammaj.bsky.social•1 day ago

elwoodan.bsky.social•1 day ago

this is very optimistic, I think we are head down the "you are now a citizen of the Tesla-McDonalds corporate arcology" route

jaconthebrazos.bsky.social•1 day ago

These rich guys aren't even the biggest guys we have. Why can we let Reacher take care of them?

crackermack.bsky.social•1 day ago

The math is devastatingly simple.

stardustcrusader89.bsky.social•1 day ago

they would at least beat him, too.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batavia_(1628_ship)#Maiden_voyage

jethanded-wyvern.bsky.social•1 day ago

That's hardly sustainable.

Just break the guy's legs and leave him to the boars.

beldamd.bsky.social•1 day ago

Well surely you are leaving out the possibility that they genuinely might admire the intelligence and hard work it took to create this myth, and that they also might accept it was their own laziness and stupiditythat prevented them from 'owning' it
And then they'd vote to make him King...

jeffinthebowtie.bsky.social•1 day ago

I thought this was a LOST post at first

considersomething.bsky.social•1 day ago

one of those one guys might read the room, panic a bit, and direct the Washington Post editorial section to do nothing but reinforce the principle of private property and how those who have things deserve them (in this scenario the desert island also has a Washington Post editorial section)

adarkadaptedheart.bsky.social•1 day ago

Most people would just let him.

robinbobcat.bsky.social•1 day ago

"Hey, so there's lots of boars now, but if we all eat as many boars as we want to, we're going to run out after only a little while. So me and a couple of guys are gonna find out how many there are, and how many we can eat for a stable population, okay?" - Game Warden Steve.

clubfootclub.bsky.social•1 day ago

Great metaphor.

It’s becoming increasingly obvious that yes, we need to redefine (limit) “private” property and “private” wealth in such a way that individuals cannot so warp the democratic process, cannot exist above the law. That’s where we are.

foxygekkerson.bsky.social•1 day ago

I propose the first step should be to declare that holdings in speculative assets shouldn’t count toward net worth. If unrealized capital gains can’t be taxed because the money doesn’t exist, then stocks and crypto shouldn’t count toward net worth for exactly the same reason.

clubfootclub.bsky.social•1 day ago

A .5%-1% wealth tax - including on unrealized cap gains - wouldn’t affect the lifestyle of any billionaire. It would only slow the rate at which they become ever wealthier.
“Crypto” should be regulated out of existence, ASAP.

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