Actually Brave New World was a utopia, not dystopia. Many confuse it with 1984.
Every need of the common people was met and their happiness was catered for. And those who were unusually independent, intellectually curious, creative or couldn’t fit in were “exiled”, to a place with their equals, where their were free to continue their studies, art, etc.
Imagine a world where the MAGAs are happy and content instead of angry.
The US spent decades transferring manufacturing, capital, and know-how to China, while Chinese students trained, and excelled, at elite Western universities. Why are people surprised that China eventually became capable of competing with the US?
> Isn't this basically admitting you had nothing to do with this project
No. They had nothing to do with the code. The project is not only the code.
> and anyone else could pay an ai to make the same thing easily?
This assumes that the difficult part is typing code, but in reality the most difficult part is to know what to build, specify it, evaluate and iterate on it.
If it were truly as easy as asking an AI once, then everyone would already be shipping successful products daily.
I don't know how you simplify things so much... Do you want 94% tax on stocks? Why stop at stocks? How about property? Your house's net worth?
The social equality shouldn't be based on how much poorer we are in comparison to Musk, but can the poorest of us afford food, shelter, education and healthcare?
Can they afford it by having a decent work/life balance?
Our economic system creates billionaires as a side effect, but is there any other out there that is better and doesn't create billionaires?
At the end of the day, is our average citizen today better off than when they were in 1944?
If you want people to listen that are the questions you should ask and how you should market "socialism". Not "eat the rich" bullshit.
Your sibling, roommate, neighbor that uses your internet, previous IP owner, posts too much? You get blocked too.
Using VPN? Blocked.
Your iPhone is too old, blocked.
Your screen brightness too low? Believe or not, blocked.