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Only if you assume those people all have only one million dollars.

Billionaires also have 1000x times the resources to pay for accounting firms to back up their tax loop holes. They are often generational wealth so they learned to hide it from birth. The only option is to remove them from the ecosystem. Taxing them isn’t even a half measure. They shouldn’t exist, hence why they should be plated.

I don’t want a few millions of a billionaires assets taxed. I might accept a taxation rate back to 99% like it allegedly was before Ronnie took us down this dark timeline back in the 1980’s but the older I get, the hungrier I become.

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There are fewer than 1,000 billionaires in the US.

There are over 20,000 millionaires.

Opportunity cost indicates they should finish going through the millionaires first.

We should be eating the billionaires and save the IRS the future effort.

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I am not calling out the need for the request but pedantically suggesting there is a nice to ask someone to be nice and ‘be nice’ isn’t it.

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I disagree. Without at least a “please” in there it cannot be considered nice.

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Can you provide a context in which it is?

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Telling people to “be nice” isn’t being nice.

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Did you become vegan because of pushy vegans?

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No, see they are miserable so you must be miserable.

They don’t want to not engage with these services that they know manipulate them but choose to do so anyway but deny any responsibility for their own actions because those same algorithms told them they aren’t responsible.

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Confirmation bias.

After a quick skim of this study I don’t feel it proof of anything. It looks more like p-hacking.

The data was pulled from a database so it’s entirely statically analysis. There’s no control. It’s all self reported.

It’s quite odd that being a former smoker caused one to perform better than a current smoker or a never smoker. Of course they leave that out of the abstract.

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Seems like the new government was the reason and not these protestors.

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