Except that billionaires don't hold cash but assets. And they did not necessarily pay taxes on the value of those assets. The idea that billionaires have vaults of cash in mountains is not a sensible basis for any argument.
The point of a tax is to steer society, not to compute some sort of equivalence. Billionaire wealth has increased by way more than the 5 % mentioned over the last couple of years. This oxfam article [1] says 81 percent in 6 years. Wealth for the middle class means safety and stability. Wealth for the richest of the rich means power, and that threatens any democracy. The goal should be to prevent extreme inequality. It's supposed to be one person=one vote, not one dollar=one vote.
The example mentioning $100 is just tasteless. Wealth taxes are relevant only to people for which $100 means absolutely nothing whatsoever.
The article carefully avoids clear words. What's your conclusion here, dear Paul? Why are you intentionally staying vague? Nobody asked how to convert between wealth and income tax. So exactly why are you educating the public about this topic?
Will check out keyd and wtype, thank you for the pointers! If you don't mind, could you go into a little more detail on your journey? What do you use it for? What roadblocks did you encounter that made you try out different tools?
On Windows I was a happy Autohotkey user. For the same functionality I'm using kmonad+bash+ydotool+systemd now. I use it to make CapsLock a modifier key. Mostly for navigation, e. g. Caps+HJKL for arrow keys, Caps+E/R for Ctrl+🡰/🡲, i. e. jump to the next/prev word. Also moved some special keys closer to the home row, e. g. Caps+F=Backspace, Caps+D=Delete, Caps+V=Enter.
I do not like kmonad at all. The configuration language seems poorly designed, and OS integration is non-existent. Last week I spent about 90 minutes with Copilot trying to get the kmonad script to autostart. And it still doesn't work properly. I have a macro that types the current date, and I just couldn't get it to work when running as a systemd service. Umlauts also don't seem to be working anymore.
Fun project. The article is a bit light on details. I find it astonishing that a project like this runs into performance issues. I would have liked to learn more about what these resource-constrained widgets looked like, what they did, and what caused the performance issues.
Can be explained with one word: Inequality. America being rich is a smokescreen. Some Americans are very rich. Most are not. The very rich Americans are not sad, actually.
I'm not a native English speaker, so I don't really have much of an opinion about LLM writing. It probably doesn't stand out to me that much. Your reply made me curious though, so I asked a bunch of "is this AI writing" websites about this article, and they landed on about 7-8 % AI writing, so pretty unlikely.
On the article itself, I found the title quite relatable. When coding agents became a thing, I kept arguing with LLMs before realizing how pointless it is. I really liked the turn the article took, relating the communication breakdown to neurodivergence, and the inherent bias that current models bring.
According to this communication model, there's four aspects to communication between humans. Apart from the factual and the appeal layers, it highlights other aspects, which it calls self-revealing and relationship layers. It is somewhat surprising, and definitely remarkable, that these also matter when communicating with an LLM.