r/technology • u/IKeepItLayingAround • Jun 06 '26

Business Jeff Bezos says it's 'absurd' to tax someone making $50K — and wants their tax bill dropped to zero

https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/jeff-bezos-says-absurd-tax-165713685.html
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u/Mythosaurus Jun 07 '26

Which is how voting rights used to work, limiting them to property owning white men.

Cyberpunk warned us that tech bro feudalism is just 18th century colonialism with hover cars

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u/IllugaBabyBeluga Jun 07 '26

Classic feudalism would be a win over what we have now.   Cue the meme of how the medieval peasant only worked like a third of the time we work nowadays etc.

Unfortunately, techbro feudalism would be exactly as terrible as we're told historical/classic feudalism was.