this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2026
701 points (98.9% liked)

Technology

86264 readers
4807 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
701
California ‘billionaire tax’ makes ballot despite opposition from tech moguls (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world
61 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] bacon_pdp@lemmy.world -5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

At 2% it would hurt those who hold bonds at 3.9% (and below) and when there is a planned 2% inflation rate. (The economy is usually better for the working class when bonds average between 2-5% returns).

But I agree that it should be global.

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The 2% would be applied to households worth 100 million dollars or more, I'm pretty sure they could spare the change without much impact on their lifestyles.

[–] bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Why not make it go, 1%, 2%,4%,8%,16%,32%,64% based on how much they had? Hurting the trillionaire and the centibillionaires the hardest

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 2 points 3 weeks ago

The goal is to have it low enough so that every single country in the world agrees to set it up, even tax havens like Bermuda, Luxembourg or Monaco. But high enough to be effective. Then, once it's agreed upon, we can make it better and more progressive.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Motherfucker they take 35% of what we make.

[–] bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Or more.

But you do realize that the billionaires are going to try to poison pill any such legislation by making it apply to everyone.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, I am well aware that the only path forward is playing mario brothers multiplayer, we can do it.

[–] bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It would be easier if the location of bowser was tracked on some map (ideally realtime) so that players could speedrun to their boss fight.