Maybe 'making the economic system more egalitarian' is a fairly trivial distraction from more basic challenges like promoting economic growth, global public health, and animal welfare, and reducing existential risks that could exterminate all sentient life.
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Replying to @primalpoly @mattyglesias
95% of all social ills would be solved by taxing the rich. Republics don’t survive long without a middle class.
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Replying to @xebeche914 @mattyglesias
How does 'taxing the rich' solve factory farming or existential risk from Artificial General Intelligence?
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What part of factory farming concerns you?
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Replying to @xebeche914 @mattyglesias
The colossal scale of the animal suffering. Like, the 10 billion chickens a year who suffer and die in the US alone?
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