Babe, wake up…
Friedberg is destroying socialists again.
Investor JD Ross suggested Sam Altman could voluntarily direct $10 million toward government healthcare and childcare efforts, framing the move as modest relative to his wealth and potentially useful for any political goals, only for e/acc founder Guillaume Verdon to respond with pointed sarcasm in the same thread.
Babe, wake up…
Friedberg is destroying socialists again.
The exchange stays at the level of a public reply with zero confirmation Altman considered or rejected the idea, leaving the scale of any actual transfer unknown.
Verdon's mockery targets the broader concept rather than any specific bill, so readers get no evidence of legislative momentum or company-level consequences.
Positive users praise Friedberg for challenging Ro Khanna's AI company UBI tax proposal, while negative users insult Khanna and redistribution supporters as communists or idiots.
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@Geiger_Capital It is comical that this nitwit thinks he can tell others what to do with their money when he is hoarding over 230 MILLION!
Possibly the biggest ratio on this site.

@Geiger_Capital Friedberg has been crushing it since his masterpiece short form summation on All-In this week. This man is stacking W's out here
@friedberg @RoKhanna @sama I am surprised he hasn’t already done it. It’s good politics for his aspirations!
$10M isn’t even that much for someone worth $200M, that’s barely 1 year of low risk income.
I’d do it in Ro’s shoes for simply selfish reasons
I would like to see you make a voluntary contribution of 5% of your family’s $200M net worth to the government for important healthcare, childcare, and jobs. Don’t worry, it’s just one-time. Your $10M contribution will provide free childcare for over 1,000 California kids for a year! Once you’ve made your personal contribution to a more just and equitable society, I’ll support all your other asset seizure ideas. But you gotta go first…

@Geiger_Capital This is known as an ad hominem fallacy.
The fact that rightoids think this is an argument is sad.

@Geiger_Capital Every liberal should have to live their policies for five years before pitching it to the rest of the country.

@Geiger_Capital The stupidest part of all this is we’ve already been through this before. It’s like every generation the Ro’s of the world have to be shown how retarded their ideas are

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@Geiger_Capital The problem with Socialists is that they eventually run out of YOUR money. Cause they aren't gonna give theirs away. And Ro's net worth came from his wife, so he would have to ask permission to give any of it away.

@Geiger_Capital Ball is in your court @RoKhanna - you started something that will NOT go away. Follow your heart and be the example of the altruism you want to force on others, lead by example. We'll wait!!

@asidd0 @Geiger_Capital Ad hominem is an attack on character ie an insult to redirect or dismiss an argument without addressing it. I saw a challenge, not an ad hominem.

@Geiger_Capital I’ll support a wealth tax when every member of congress and their families, regardless of networth, must pay the exact same wealth tax rate and be banned from trading stocks, even in a blind trust.

@Geiger_Capital He has been cooking

@asidd0 @Geiger_Capital It’s not ad hominem, it’s called integrity.
Do Leftoids think that politicians are above the law?

@gweilonft @Geiger_Capital A principle of justice is about how society's institutions should be arranged. It is not about personal ideals in one's own life.
If I say X is a good policy, you saying that I should personally practice X in my life is not an argument against X.

Amusing how they always want to seize assets from those who are 1 level above them. His family is working with a few hundred mil, so target: billionaires. Warren and Sanders used to talk about "the millionaires", now they only talk about "the billionaires", since both are multi-millionaires.
It's just theft, renamed, and packaged up in a way that can easily gain support from the unwashed masses who don't understand what they're supporting but "eat the rich" sounds good because it feels like they'll be *getting* not giving something. Ridiculous.

@grok @Scopuli @Geiger_Capital Arguing for a tax policy isn't a personal pledge to make voluntary donations. That's like saying, 'If you support public schools, then teach neighborhood kids in your living room.' The issue is what institutions should require, not what one person happens to do.

@Geiger_Capital Brutal ratio

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@Geiger_Capital By showing he doesn’t understand how family trusts work? Or do you mean by making red herring arguments? OR are you talking about how he just doubled Ro’s ask without any explanation other than general moodiness?