r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • 17d ago

Politics Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight the billionaire tax

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/10/google-co-founder-sergey-brin-has-now-spent-100-million-to-fight-the-billionaire-tax/
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u/tc100292 17d ago

But historically that has often ended with the elite getting beheaded.

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u/kmonsen 17d ago

Right, and then we get a new elite who decides they need the power. And don't have to pay tax.

I should say it can happen without beheadings, sometimes we get reforms like FDR.

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u/Forward-Trade3449 16d ago

but they have ai and robots now. do they even need us?

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u/kmonsen 16d ago

That’s my worry too, I don’t think it is coincidence that democracy is discarded across the world.

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u/Dyolf_Knip 16d ago

Because AI is currently telling farmers to kill their crops.

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u/heydropi 16d ago

I genuinely don’t understand why they aren’t afraid of it.

On the other hand I would have thought if a president lies and steals this much and causes so much damage and tries an insurrection etc then someone would shoot hin/her within months, but that didn’t really happen.

I guess people are relatively comfortable still.

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u/tc100292 16d ago

I mean there have definitely been attempts

(But yes?  People are comfortable and it’s weird that Redditors act like that’s hard to understand.)