TikTok investor Jeff Yass avoided paying $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny.
He then poured that money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election deniers.
From the ProPublica archives:
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
~President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936.
Image: Universal History Archive/Getty Images.
📢 Once more for the people in the back:
- Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized.
- Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs.
- Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.
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I don't think we are talking enough about the astounding historical twist that one of the most powerful institutions standing up to defend liberal democracy around the world today is the Papacy
OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.
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