No one person should have the power Musk has. A 1950s-style marginal tax rate on the richest would do the world a massive service simply by reducing their ability to do this kind of harm.
Frankly, it’s depressing how one billionaire can fuck up the night sky for the rest of humanity and our collective ability to try to understand more about the universe. The newer Starlink satellites create even more interference than the old ones.
Radio waves from the satellites are "blinding" radio telescopes and hurting research, say scientists.
Wow, this is crazy. Totally agree, it's setting a sad precedent that feels like the coming of something outta a sci-fi dystopia. Kinda feels like we live in the worst timeline when you read stuff like this...
This is James Bond villain type stuff.
The modern right wing would call Eisenhower a socialist. And yet we wouldn't have an interstate highway system without those 90% taxes on top earners. And before him, FDR used high taxes to put people to work with the TVA and WPA.
1950's tax rates and revoke all of his government contracts. Dude is a menace. He'd just be some dipshit that owns a bunch of PayPal shares if it wasn't for the government subsidizing all of his businesses. Funding that fascist was a mistake.
No it wouldn’t; he seldom takes income. It’s all loans securitized against assets, so he never actually realizes any of the capital gains. The principle — taxes must prevent the emergence of a plutocracy— is right, but we can’t just look backwards to do it.
