r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • 18d ago

Society Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses

https://fortune.com/article/how-much-has-google-cofounder-sergey-brin-spent-to-oppose-california-billionaire-tax-102-million-owe-13-billion-if-loses/
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u/EchoingAngel 17d ago

The real problem is people getting rich enough to start shaping the system. That's how it becomes a runaway issue

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u/Waiting4Reccession 17d ago

The underlying problem is actual peoples own aversion to violence.

Even though they have all of history to look back on and see what has always been the only solution that actual ever worked.

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u/MyUsernamePls 17d ago

This is why the media jumped on the dude that shot the big pharma CEO and they made an example out of him. They don't want common people shooting down the ultra rich.

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u/caifaisai 17d ago

Technically it was a health insurance CEO (which I personally find even worse, at least pharma ostensibly provides a necessary service of developing and making medicine, can't say the same thing for the United healthcare). But the point remains the same.