It doesn’t work because, as pointed out by another commenter, wealth does not “trickle down”. It only accumulates. This has been demonstrated to be a basic function of wealth and the minute you begin to think about it, it becomes obvious that having more resources makes it easier to gather more resources.

Half Life 3.

Capital-F Faith is directly contrary to science and reason. It’s believing things to be true without question or proof.

It’s worse than that. It’s believing things despite contrary evidence. It’s why you can never win any “debate” with believers. They literally believe that you telling them they’re wrong proves that they are right.

“Do you have any feelings whatsoever about the way automobile taillights work in the US?”

“No, why would I?.”

“After you watch this video, you’re going to write your congressman.”

Alexa, bite me.

This used to be a feature that you could filter by on GSMArena, but alas it has gone from even there.

Says the guy who literally advocate the enslavement of the majority of the human race. Where even if your line, my guy?

But what is absolutely not debatable is that we actually need people to do work for us

Citation needed.

to contribute to function as a society

As if that’s a worthy goal.

Thanks Obama!

I think we could work it out. We can for driving tests.

I don’t think we can. Have you seen the results of our “driving tests”?

In all seriousness though. I get what you want to do, but this isn’t how you get there.

Honestly, I would just ban it entirely at this point. I’d rather see the abolition of marriage entirely than have the government dictate who can and cannot participate (outside of consent issues, obviously).

I mean, go forth. Be fruitful. Multiply.

Eat, drink, be merry with each other.

Just leave the government out of it.

I like your ideas, but have you considered that this one:

All natural resources, be it harvested (e.g. ores, oil) or otherwise (e.g. land, air), are property of everyone. If any individual is to monopolise and/or utilise some of these resources, they are to compensate everyone else for doing so.

Effectively makes literally everything free? Not that this would be a bad thing. It just makes so many of the other things irrelevant.

That’s what I thought. I can’t even explain why it seemed hostile.

Why does it feel like you’re disagreeing with me when you clearly aren’t saying anything that I’m not? #nosnark

The days of dog whistles are over folks.

Make no mistake about it. Ron DeSantis is a right-wing extremist. He has appointed a right-wing extremist to the New College of Florida’s board of trustees who advocates “cooperating” politically with a potential white nationalist dictator. The man opposes CRT and LGBTQ discussion. His basic thesis of reality is that compassion is ruining America.

He’s not being wishy-washy. He agrees with Haywood. He’s trying to pull the conservative core into a white-nationalist-based class war and bring about the full-blown Nazification of America.

To be fair, it’s already pretty uninteresting.

Once you’ve seen the sausage made it’s hard to love sausage. Doesn’t mean the sausage is terrible, it just makes you think of watching it get made.

Who at Amazon would be hurt by a bigot using their Echo or doorbell?

That’s a great question and I don’t know what kind of exposure Amazon employees have to audio logs from those devices but I’m certain there’s some sure to required troubleshooting and debugging.

Stopping deliveries sure but this is a couple of steps further.

I also don’t know how integrated the various aspects of a user’s account are and whether it would even be possible for Amazon to have taken a smaller step.

As it turned out, he wasn’t. But when they stopped servicing him, they had every reason to believe that he was.

Do you continue to service a customer whose behavior is otherwise unacceptable until you’re absolutely sure he’s a bigot? Or do you abide by your legal obligation to protect your workers from such behavior?

I don’t know if Amazon did the worst thing here, but I don’t know that the best thing is far off from what they did.