Elon Musk, world's richest man, is offering $47 to every person who signs this petition - The Economic Times https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/world-news/elon-musk-worlds-richest-man-is-offering-47-to-every-person-who-signs-this-petition/articleshow/114006020.cms

That's why a #democracy can't afford #billionaires. Even millionaires are problematic, if they have too many of those millions. So he wants a million people to sign his petition. Each gets USD 47. (Why not 50? So cheap?) While you and I will never have 47 millions, for him it's small change. When he coughs, his companies lose way more than 47m.

But I think it's the first time someone is that openly buying votes. The best democracy money can buy...

Elon Musk, world's richest man, is offering $47 to every person who signs this petition

Elon Musk's Elon's America PAC is offering $47 to registered voters who refer others to sign a petition supporting the First and Second Amendments. The goal is to get one million signatures in key swing states by October 21.

^{ET Online (Economic Times)}

Need a brief and accessible explainer about the actual harms of AI?

Show folks this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TtVJ4JDM7eM

@thejuicemedia hitting it out of the park, yet again.

#ai #corporations #corporatocracy #billionaires #climateCrisis #BigTech #SiliconValley

Honest Government Ad | AI

The Government™ has made an ad about the existential threat that AI poses to humanity, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative👉 Help us keep Government...

^YouTube

A triple digit billionaire among a few paltry single and double digit billionaires

There are about 14 triple digit spherical cows at this time.
https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/
Having seen plenty of pie charts fail to scale well, I present a cow chart.
#billionaires #resources

One is a billionaire who is selling all of his books, the other one is a quite-broke human who has the courage and decency to provide her book online for free. Trade-Free. No ads, no data collection, no subscribe-here-to-read bullshit.

That's the world in which we live. The ones who make a fortune are trained and incentivized to not even share their "must read" books for free, despite having so much wealth.

Oh look, Bill Gates released a book about "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster"! It must be important.... so it is worth 18$ to read.

Grab @Sasha 's book from here https://www.bigworldsmallsasha.com/book/ - she also talks a lot about Climate Change, solutions, and a new kind of worldview.

#gates #climatechange #capitalism #TradeRuinsEverything #climate #billionaires

Billionaires Cash In On Abusive Farm Worker Scam

#agricultural #billionaires

https://www.levernews.com/billionaires-cash-in-on-abusive-farm-worker-scam/

Billionaires Cash In On Abusive Farm Worker Scam

To staff their agricultural properties, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, and other tycoons are using a controversial visa program linked to labor abuses and human trafficking.

^{The Lever}