Jonathan Ladd: Pay taxes. Raise taxes higher. Organize labor unions and give them money. Fund local community groups and religious congregations that build social capital so politicians will be pressured to respond to people's needs. Fund and organize local political party orgs. Fund left-of-center media orgs.

Pay taxes. Raise taxes higher. Organize labor unions and give them money. Fund local community groups and religious congregations that build social capital so politicians will be pressured to respond to people's needs. Fund and organize local political party orgs. Fund left-of-center media orgs.

And stop developing cults of personality around tech billionaires because you're searching for meaning in your life.

rooting for billionaires like they're sports teams is one of the oddest developments of the past 5-10 years.

It's not new. Rich people have been lionized and boot-licked forever.

i agree with that - i don't think there have been as many pro-one-particular-billionaire-against-other-billionaire factions (I like billionaire A while you like billionaire B; i bet my billionaire's space program will be better than your billionaire, etc.)

So you’re saying that there are some alternatives?

Many such things. None of which found their way into that article.

I was prepared to get real mad at this yesterday but the article doesn't really match the clickbaity headline. But yeah there's lots of alternatives both public and private

None of which are mentioned by Coy. Also not mentioned (maybe this is that "flaw" he was talking about): nymag.com/intelligence...

The Effective Altruists’ Castle Is for Sale for $20 Millionnymag.com Sam Bankman-Fried funded the philanthropic movement, and now they have to sell to pay back his victims.

It's like, "How do we save Democracy in the Face of Tyranny!" Uh, give power away to the people, like the majority of people, and not nine legal edge Lords trying to bring back feudalism. Equalize rights, commit reparations to amend broken systems. Oh, and take that power back from the Billionaires

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But how do we know these work? Also, how do any of these help me justify defrauding people of billions in crypto?

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