Jon Plotkin

@jplot.bsky.social

Obviously this would be terrible, but given the massive inequality in the US, the evil seems totally held up by the “no income tax means no vote” part of it. I can’t imagine that if you added a floor of every person gets one vote, that there are enough super rich people to change an election.

Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · last wk.

Very cool that Shopify’s CEO thinks the poor should have far less of a vote than the rich. Still worth that ad read money, folks?

Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke says “good system.” In response to the following proposal: 

“Interesting... what about weighted voting proportional to the level of income tax you pay? (no income tax paid - O vote, $1-100k - 1 vote, $100-200k 2 votes and so on... cap it at 5 votes for $500k+. For those that constantly complain about the wealthy not paying tax/fair share they'd have nothing to worry about right? Why not reward representation of taxation and build a democracy around those that foot the bill?”

Everyone replying to or quoting this post: “you said it, it’s just a funny comic not meant to be taken seriously but it’s also correct and an accurate depiction of a certain type of person.”

No Cartridge Trev@nocartridge.bsky.social · 2w ago

So the backlash to @hausofdecline.bsky.social’s funny comic about economists saying “we’re not in a recession look at chart” is that it’s not a serious and several paragraph accounting of current economic crises and is instead a funny comic

It’s been over a decade and I intellectually understand that liking Trump isn’t some rare thing but I still get taken aback every single time I see someone in a MAGA hat.

It’s not that I didn’t think climate change was important but after several days of air conditioning discourse, it is now crucial that we find a way to turn it around.