Oddbean new post about login | logout @Caleb James DeLisle @9c8434d0 @Curator of Mastodon.art fediblock :newt: > Ensuring that even if they're not the smartest guy in the room, one of their personal assistants is. You're basically repeating what I said. They don't need to be clever, they can just afford to hire clever people instead.
For all intents and purposes it doesn't matter, any idea of a tax code that will "tax the rich" is going to be inevitably turned into a tax code to subsidize the rich.
@Caleb James DeLisle @9c8434d0 @Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: it is much worse, in fact. Tax codes -- among other regulations -- are being weaponised in order to kill the competition. You can watch a perfect example of this in OpenAI who right after achieving a sizeable market share suddenly began demanding that the entire field must be regulated. Taxes are often used in the very same manner and fashion.
@Curator of Mastodon.art fediblock :newt: @9c8434d0 @Caleb James DeLisle Or maybe just look at non-USA tax systems.
@Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: @9c8434d0 @Caleb James DeLisle recognising the right people for the job requires actual talent. Just look at the entire field of software development as an example of what happens when this talent is lacking.
@Curator of Mastodon.art fediblock :newt: @9c8434d0 @Caleb James DeLisle You're framing it like there's just shitty bosses/corporations, I'd say it's much worse than that. Industries like software-dev is hell because the economy valorises either quantity or vanity. Not quality or crafts. So for software dev you get entire teams of people producing the same kind of shit thousands of time, even though the devs themselves know it's crap.