What happens when they go bust?
this post was submitted on 02 Jun 2026
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That's great for the US, but these companies are fucking the whole planet. What will the US do when other countries hold them responsible?
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50% too low.
The biggest flaw, aside from it having to succeed in our corporate owned Congress, is that it would require these companies to actually make money, and based on the technology we have today, that seems unlikely to happen anytime in the next decade. At least not without some major technological breakthrough. But it’s better than nothing I suppose.
I see what you're going for, but... No thanks.
This kind of bill is the only way we ever get any kind of UBI and the closest thing to taxes these companies ever pay.
AI companies have to be profitable for that to happen. They're not, and the costs are only going up.
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Ew, no, thanks. Feels like he got this “idea” from some slop machine.
Just tax them, regulate them, fine them into bankruptcy, and sue them for crimes against humanity.
Use taxes and regulations to incentivize cooperatives and disincentivize private companies.
Tax revenue and income progressively (starting on the negatives: if you're below the mean you get money), reaching 100% for anything above 100,000$/month for individuals and 100,000$/month/employee for companies.
Scale fines with personal wealth/ valuation, so that they have the same impact regardless of wealth.
Tax and regulate the stock exchange like the gambling joint that it is.
Hold CEOs, boards, and stockholders personally responsible for any crimes or torts committed by their companies.
Nationalise any companies that provide first needs or anything remotely resembling a utility, and turn them into cooperatives.
Tax 100% of any wealth over, say, ten times the mean.
I don't know, there's so many better things to do than spreading this cancer over all the population. All this would do is make it hit harder once the bubble pops.
Defense, oil, and media industries should be a higher percentage. They are historically responsible for most corrupt lobbying/disinformation/warmongering and alliance with zionazi rule over the US. The strategic unanimity of "must beat China or maintain zionazi bias over population control" for AI means that it is meant to be a corruption vector for skynet, funneling all of our wealth and liberty onto privatized profit from skynet.
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The public should own all of AI, and corporations should be forced to ask the public to lend compute. AI is a powerful tool, and if we give the elite ownership of it, they will someday cut society loose: By killing or enslaving us all, and using robots to autonomously fulfill the wealthy's wish to be truly free of responsibility.
how about shutting it down, why keep it around. almost as if you are funded by them.