income cap on all earnings plus add a 5% wealth tax on the super rich.
You’d think the majority of voters could push those laws thru.

One theory says that UBI is just a bribe to the public to STFU about their complete subordination to and dependence upon mega-industries.

Tax the rich?

EAT THE RICH!

Once started (it was 10% here in the beginning, now between 19% and 25%), it never stops increasing, and it’s always hidden from the consumers it affects. Low income people are harmed the worst, as they never see it, and have no way around it.

In the USA, each state can levy (or not, if it so chooses, NH, eg)its own sales tax. A national sales tax (VAT) isn’t needed to fill the local needs.

deskilling them and discouraging them from acquiring new skills and more knowledge.

And the more people use AI, the more surveillance data they provide, and the easier they make it for AI companies to manipulate them.

Any use of AI, unless you're absolutely forced to use it by your job or school, is a bad idea. It can too easily become a crutch that the AI companies will turn into shackles if you become at all dependent on it.

AI tools supposedly offer convenience. They create dependency and addiction.

They can spot it more often. My daughter in law figured out to get around it when she changed an image it wouldn’t allow her to

David Loy talks about money being a symbol, a means, and that people take the means to be an end, and since somebody will always have more, not must money, but" Money, Sex, War and Karma", a great read, subtitled "Notes for a Buddhist Revolution" , then their symbolic appetites can never be fulfilled.

Meanwhile, deregulation and regressive taxes mean that wealth concentrates massively into the hands of fewer and fewer people.

Arguably, whatever causes a more even distribution of wealth (TO ITS CREATORS AND CONSUMERS) makes for a better world. We are approaching a consumerless society, where all that's for sale is AI slop and useless infotainment.

Allan Watts. I worked nights all week and that was a normal time for me to be awake.
The word is not the thing.

All this time and no plan other than the republicans letting the tech bros have all our money and creating a corporate dictatorship.

Rather, it will be the massive collapse of society because the common people will have no means to make a living, and a government that will not implement universal basic income.

Proximus replaced Skynet with Pickx in 2019.

(Trivia note for the day)