Once you have a few million I imagine getting to a billion is a lot easier.

How so?

In any case, idk why you’re so opposed to taxing the hell out of them.

Who said i’m opposed to that? In another comment i argued that taxing billionaires is not the answer to get rid of them because in fact it doesn’t.

That is true but their choices or habits are influenced by the rotten society around them.

Tax alone isn’t the answer. if the richest man in the world were to pay 200 billions a year in taxes they would still be a billionaire and if these 200 billions ends up on building a ballroom for politicians not much is achieved.

A billion is an amount of money so ridiculous that it should simply be illegal to have that much.

A billionaire is 999 times richer than a millionaire, you may end up a millionaire by chance but there’s no way you can magically become a billionaire. Assuming you bought 1000 bitcoins when they were worth a cent you would have sell them at 1 or 10, assuming you win a billion at the lottery you would give some of it away and cease to be a billionaire as a result.

Keep also in mind that these people work hard to secure contracts and royalties, the more investments you have the more work you have to do to manage them.

yes, Lemmy being created by tankies, genocide deniers and tech bros is the reason why most servers are rife with misogyny and incel mentality. that’s why women don’t feel comfortable participating and most active members are men.

How do you know that most active members are men? To me it sound you are being sexist here and judging people by their posts. Also where have you seen rife misogyny? Lemmy community is quite open and there are different instances you can chose each with its policies.

the US is and still is a federal institution.

I don’t know much about US government but i believe the US president has some power over states granted by constitution. Bitcoin isn’t designed to have a president that can chose for others.

Your argument: lemmy is shit because its creators are communists and it isn’t decentralized because most of the traffic is on lemmy.world

BTC is and still is a decentralized project, a few actors gained a lot of power over the network but that is another story, similarly you could argue that a bunch of people run the finance world.

Bitcoin and ethereum blockchains are built to be open, public and decentralized. The difference between these and a bank could be compared to the difference between reddit and lemmy. Is reddit a scam? Perhaps not on a large scale but it has all the potential to become a scam once its executives decide to do so. Lemmy is not owned by a single person which makes it way more harder to “control”.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy?tab=readme-ov-file#crypto

You can support lemmy by donating cryptocurrencies, they are not only used by scammers.

Most of crypto volume is done on bitcoin and ethereum network which are built to be less scammy than a bank. You could indeed argue that 99.9% of existing cryptocurrencies are scam because there are thousand existing projects that imitates bitcoin, similarly one could argue that 99.9% iphones copies are a scam

Why do they even need it to be that way?

so that they can surveil you

no phones = you cannot create a bank account

They cannot get rid of the caste system but can successfully surveil 90% of the population

15 years old you probably wouldn’t be here on lemmy

Your argument sounds like “pc are bads because of virus”

so much “user friendly”

A free and direct tip system that doesn’t force you to use credit cards would be quite useful

Having to deal with crypto means having to deal with crytpo bros

The internet was also a better place when people using it were more open minded

Windows, google, photoshop now all comes with AI. Are you going to avoid any product made with these? AI isn’t just a tool to generate a game with a click, it can offer all sort of feedback and tools, for example it could be used to change the color of a box without having to do it manually. Unless the whole process is documented you will not be able to tell if AI has been used or not.

Gabe Newell is infamously libertarian.

So libertarian he become a billionare thanks to a platform where you don’t own any of your games.

Valve ceo just added a $500 million mega yacht to his fleet. Valve true benefit is that thanks to window they managed to build a monopoly on videogames distribuition and that their customers are kids addicted to videogames.