UBI. Tax the rich. I'd vote to create a 10-50% tax on the morbidly rich, to be paid back to everyone in the world as UBI. 10% is the tithing rate, something th

UBI. Tax the rich. I'd vote to create a 10-50% tax on the morbidly rich, to be paid back to everyone in the world as UBI. 10% is the tithing rate, something that people understand. 50% represents civic duty, a moral responsibility to acknowledge society's role in maintaining the infrastructure that allows wealth creation. Or we could just tax them 100% for a while and.. nothing bad would happen. Which is hilariously tragic. Of course billionaires want to pay 0% and fund effective altruism projects personally. That makes a big assumption though, that the rich know what needs to be fixed better than the poor. Which is nonsense from both religious and secular standpoints. Religious because all have equal dignity as conscious living beings. Secular because money is an arbitrary measure of fitness. Billionaires are like children with little or no life experience outside of wealth acquisition. They're ultimate expressions of ego, with all soul stripped away, vying to become the emperor on Star Wars to live forever as the devil's right hand man. To put it lightly. The opposite of a billionaire looks like Alan Watts, Terence McKenna, Howard Zinn, John Lennon, Marianne Williamson, the list is long. Combatting billionaires outwardly like bullies is difficult. But combatting them inwardly by shifting our consciousness towards peace is viable. Which looks like wokeism, progressism, leftism, socialism, communism, humanism, animism, pantheism, entertaining the idea of reincarnation.. all the bad words that billionaires hate on and spread sentiment against through propaganda. Again the list is long. But if we care about preventing the human race from being subjugated under the yoke of tech tyranny, they are good places to start. There are meta levels to that. For example, Martin Luther King Jr advocated for labor as much as racial equality. Feminism defends human rights as well as gender equality. All the stuff they don't teach in schools is exactly the understanding needed to defeat the status quo. I still hope that we find a way to transcend this suffering, even though I've seen no evidence of that happening so far in my lifetime. Sometimes I wonder if this is the revolution that will not be televised. Like what would it take to really organize and roll out something like UBI through existing infrastructure, with philosophies borrowed from stuff like open source? And what force will the powers that be use to suppress that on all fronts? Once we view that world through that lens, the oppression becomes obvious and unmistakable as we watch all the capital in the world get siphoned into the corporate black holes of billionaires, so that it can't be used to, I dunno, give everyone all the food they need. I wish I had the answers, but I have to get back to work to afford the crumbs of my existence.