I believe that the reason for the layoff was due to the debt they took out to build data centers which was ~$10 billion so in order to not be too upside down they laid off 30k employees to save on payroll. I could be wrong on this fact, since I don’t completely trust the source I got it from. But sounds like something Oracle would do.
HA! yes. I knew I spelled it wrong just to lazy to edit my post - thanks!
This feels like gorilla marketing to me. They knew the judge would tell them to take them off and it would be just enough of a sensational story to make it to press. Now more people know that Meta has these glasses.
Edit: I’m not changing it. The responses to my mistake are too funny
Or we could all just be a bunch of “tourist” visiting a city - just like all the “tourist” that “just visited” the capitol on January 6th 2021.
In October, he published a list of donors to the project. Alongside tech companies and weapons manufacturers was a Russian-born US businessman, Konstantin Sokolov.
Sokolov is building a £1.8bn AI datacentre in Gibraltar, the enclave’s biggest outside investment.
just adds more to her theory
Yep, senators and congress people are not afraid of Vance like they are of trump. It would/will be an interesting turn of events if ol’ couch fucker gets a shot at the big desk.
When the government just takes the tax money and gives it to the wealthy there really is no reason to have to go through the act of building a business and hoping people buy your product or service.
I’ve had a conversation with a couple of trump supporters that are also outdoors people (hunting, fishing, camping). And they use the public lands for most of their hobbies. They told me that this is what would get them to question their vote.
While there are many things that I feel should have gotten them to this question sooner like illegally deporting people, raises prices of everything, etc. etc. But I wonder how many others on the fringe of this cult that are outdoors people this legislation will piss off?
This speaks to a broader issue -
whenever there is an economic crisis, whether manufactured by trump or created in other ways, its never the rich that have to sacrifice its only the middle and lower classes. And when the wealthy are ever asked to sacrifice in the form of higher taxes they get pissed off and call everyone else a “taker” of their money.
I genuinely believe that most people understand this but our collective voices have been muted, manipulated and managed by some in positions of power.
Wonder why? Seems to me like a money printing machine for them, the factory and non- factory repair shops and the aftermarket.
Unless it’s seen as a way to hide your car from illegal activities, which well now that I think about it is probably the reason they didn’t follow through with the idea.
Give it time and there will be the option of Gigantic Corp paying for your teeth if you grow their logo on them.
I seem to remember a story from trumps first term that there was a few hundred children that went missing from their detention centers and ICE didn’t have a clue as to where they went.
Did this happen? And was there any follow up?
Because if it’s true then ICE has been at the very least turning a blind eye towards human trafficking for years.
I think that most billionaires are clueless to how savagely hated they are by the larger population.
If I’m having a conversation with someone and they start looking at their phone while I’m talking, I just stop talking and stare at them. More than a few times I’ve been told “keep going I’m listening” I don’t, I just let them finish and only start talking again when the set the phone down.
It’s very passive aggressive but it does make the other person feel a bit uncomfortable.
As others have said this purchase didn’t really fuck up his overall lifestyle.
Yet when the topic of raising taxes on these people comes up they all freak out, like if they have to pay an extra 20% on their wealth they will be living on the streets.
Yep. I think “The Road” by Cormack McCarthy is probably the closest to what a post-apocalyptic world would look like and that shit is bleak.
The few wealthy people I’ve met, not billionaires but $100+ millionaires, seem to have a limited skill set. They have “people” to do the work. I’ve always wondered how they would fair in a post-apocalyptic world?
Personally I’d rather have those people that can MacGuyver a solution out of rubber bands and mud.
All this to say that ol’ Zuck should probably hire some good ol’ boys/girls to do his work for him or he’s screwed.
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This is a weak argument because it’s an all-in type of thinking. We have to tax all of these things, or non of these things. That’s bullshit. Legislation can start with the easiest to tax, homes, cars and jets. Hell unrealized gains in the stock market can be taxed, debt that use stock value as collateral can be taxed as a form of income for the individual. Then there is the argument that the wealthy will just move. Why is that a problem - it’s not like the region they were moving from is losing out on tax revenue. If they take their business with them couldn’t that open opportunities for others to fill in that gap with new similar businesses?
Also on the art collections and safe deposit box contents - that’s call an inheritance tax. It doesn’t need to be annual.
This article skims the surface with a “well its difficult so what can you do?” attitude.