Billionaires

Hatred of Billionaires is very popular right now. This is understandable, given the recent actions of people like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, and Mark Zuckerberg. I won’t even name the Tangerine in Chief, because his billionaire status is in question.

There are tens of thousands of young women across the country swooning over Luigi Mangione, simply because he is mildly handsome and murdered a CEO in cold blood. Equal numbers of young men see him as a hero (and possibly a love interest).

Eat The Rich is seen at every rally for every cause. We used to see Save The Whales. Not any more. I see guillotine earrings on a regular basis, and the French Revolution is a de rigueur mention in online conversations about politics.

What I am about to say will not be popular.

I have no problem with billionaires, per se. If you can amass that kind of money without breaking the law, good on you. I have a problem with people using illegal, unethical, or deliberately cruel and exploitative means to get that money, but if you have an idea, or invest wisely in an idea, and work legally within the market to build that kind of wealth, you deserve it. Even Elon Musk.

My problem is with generational wealth. There should be a limit on how much a billionaire can pass down to his heirs. It can be generous, maybe a million apiece, maybe five million. The family home, and some physical possessions is fine. Even a college fund for the grandkids.

Beyond that, however, every cent, all properties, and all corporate ownership need to be divided among the workers, past and present, who made the billionaire that money. This needs to be done, not based upon strata in the corporation(s), but based on hours worked. The lowly janitor who cleaned offices and toilets for 20 years should get exactly as much as the 40 year old nephew of the CEO who sat in a corner office. Any board of directors can stay in place to run day-to-day affairs, subject to removal and replacement by the new owners.

I’m sure it wouldn’t be long before ownership of the corporation itself consolidated into a few hands, maybe one owner, as those who weren’t interested in running a business cashed out, but the wealth would have been redistributed fairly and not simply handed to someone like the clown who is currently refitting an airliner with gold trim and building himself a gilded ballroom at our expense.

Der Plan von #PeterThiel geht auf. Und #deutschland will freiwillig #software von #palantir einsetzen...
#usa #maga #trump #vance #agkritis #it #DigitaleSouveränität #opensource

Die erste privat entwickelte Anlage zur Urananreicherung in den USA wird in Paducah, Kentucky, auf dem Gelände einer ehemaligen Kernbrennstoffanlage errichtet.

Die US-Regierung erlaubt nun einem Privatmann die Anreicherung von Uran: Peter Thiel

Billionaire Peter Thiel backing first privately developed US uranium enrichment facility in Paducah  | WKMS

#PeterThiel #Thiel
https://www.wkms.org/energy/2025-07-25/billionaire-peter-thiel-backing-first-privately-developed-us-uranium-enrichment-facility-in-paducah

Die Welt von Palantir und Alex Karp – „Watching you“ (2024)

Als hätte „Minority Report“ in deutschen Amtsstuben das Denken ersetzt. Der Dokumentarfilm von Klaus Stern stellt den Menschen vor, der diese Vision verkauft – und mit ihr eine technoide Version der Totalüberwachung salonfähig macht. Dass der Film dabei selbst ein Teil dieser Normalisierung wird, ist die bittere Pointe. Er zeigt, was er nicht kritisiert. Das ist sein größtes Problem. (Dokumentarfilm, ARD, Neu)

Michael Kolain von #digitalrechte zur Überwachungssoftware #Palantir von #PeterThiel und den Plänen der Bundesregierung.

Hier geht‘s zum ganzen Beitrag:

https://joyn.de/serien/newstime?utm_source=app_sharing&utm_medium=mixed&utm_campaign=300819256

Putin SMASHES Trump's Nuclear Sub Bluff, US War on China Looms w/ Brian Berletic & KJ Noh!

https://www.youtube.com/live/aw84E8AM52Y

#tech #peterthiel #alexkarp #palantir #economy #capitalism #socialism #Gaza #Palestine #iran #Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen @irannachrichten #SettlerColonialism
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli #canada #usa #yemen
@blackmastodon #freePalestine #GazaGenocide #IsraelTerroristState #StopGenocide
#palestina #StopAIPAC #IDFTerrorists #DismantleZionism #china

Fernseh-Empfehlung zu Palantir etc.

Die deutsche Politik (nicht meine) versucht ja gerade, Palantir für die Polizei durchzudrücken. Die Doku „Watching you – Die Welt von Palantir und Alex Karp“ wird am 2025-08-06 (nächsten Mittwoch) um 22:50h in der ARD ausgestrahlt. Anderthalb Stunden, die sich bestimmt lohnen. Auch wenn es wegen des Horrors angemessen scheint, mit dieser Doku in die Geisterstunde zu gehen: Nicht jede/r mag um die Zeit vor der Glotze sitzen. Die Doku gibt es auch zum streamen in der Mediathek oder zum Download hier.

https://www.pc-fluesterer.info/wordpress/2025/08/03/fernseh-empfehlung-zu-palantir-etc/

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-08-palantir-army-worth-bln.html

#Palantir,… #dataanalysis and #AI company, has a reach that spans the global economy, with banks, hospitals, the US gov, and the #IDF among its…client roster.

"We want and need this country to be the strongest, most important country in the world," Alex Karp, Palantir's CEO, recently declared at a client conference in Palo Alto, California.

…founded by #PeterThiel — preeminent conservative with long-standing ties to the Trump admin—Karp, and others with #CIA backing.

Muchas gracias a las personas que han seguido leyendo este #artículo. Es acerca de la #ideología de los grandes #oligarcas tecnológicos, que los ha convertido en #monstruos.
https://literalmagazine.com/el-monstruo-del-presente/

#tecnología #literatura #actualidad #oligarquía #ElonMusk #PeterThiel #MarkZuckerberg #actualidad #capitalismo

In something like a dystopia nightmare, #Germany is walking down a path of mass surveillance and soft totalitarianism. #Palantir is the brainchild of #PeterThiel, billionaire founder of #Palantir and self proclaimed fan of facist dictatorships. Most Germans are unaware of the enormous amount of data that these systems have access to and it only takes one terrorist incident or a German Trump to use this power to gain control of society.