General Discussion

Neat article. Tfp.
I should at some point read seriously exactly what socialism is since I am unclear on its specifics though I generally view it positively, where I get hung up is on the question of private property.

I am not American, through the work-relevant portion of my higher education comes from my American grad and postdoc schools (the specific labs I worked in primarily).

I have been solidly white collar, middleclass all my life. My dad is an ex military officer/ex vet and my mom was a bureaucrat/banker - they both had/have science backgrounds/pensions and I am their only child. And we have some private property (some of which has been in our family for at least a century). So if I am far from the oligarchy, I am also not poor.

But my parents only had one kid and we live pretty frugally and don’t have several cars like some of our middle class neighbours and we are basically honest people.

In the last 14 years I feel that a stealthy push driven by private sector technocrats and the corrupt parts of the state has basically ignored my property rights (iminent domain could apply here) and with hijacking of my home, devices and data has pushed me to the brink. This is not the recycling based economy. It is rapacious mining and exploitation and 14 years of it so far.

I am extremely angry and pondering what legal recourse there is when this Robinhood style redistribution in an unequal world starts with an innocuous middleclass family that never exploited anyone and is not aggressive/aggressively litigious. Apparently that signaled to a lot of very creepy, harassing, parasitic, corrupt and shameless people from my country at least that we are “suckers and patsies”.

That creep Alex Pentland was part of the push to implement the digital id system in my country and with Google declarations and the Pentland worldview I am aghast at the scale of plunder this was.

Obviously that doesn’t apply to calls for all these tech oligarchs driving this shit to be taxed and regulated.

Sorry..went off on a tangent. ;-/.