adam w.k. @sabbatical@qoto.org

went to the fillmore in detroit last night with @yo_peej to see the national play. what an ornate space! excellent set too, def worth the drive.

@cereal this is so close to the premise of a cory doctorow short story from his book “radicalized”—the inspiration maybe? hah

@deltatux ive got some of these at my desk! didn’t realize they were a thing of the past. shows how often i use coloured pencils, i guess

@Eggfreckles huh! have been curious about giving linux a whirl. maybe now i know which flavour!

@cowanon @jeremiah no way that’s actually in schools…

@levisan oh nice. i’d love to live in an old church, but a bowling alley would be sick too

@malcolm no way, me too! https://twitter.com/sabbatical/status/1683496532983644162

here it is! now you can have it stuck in your head too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A2-Af5JEWU

i've got that AI heidi trailer theme song stuck in my head today

@mike @levisan especially in a regime like the states where there’s so much complexity and so many loopholes, i get the appeal. similar to proposals to replace the welfare/disability/unemployment bureaucracy with a basic income supplement, i suppose

@mike @levisan didnt take you for a bernie bro! ;) just found out he too advocates for a flat income tax https://mastodon.social/@Hawkmoon/110758961985639503

@mike @levisan if you could drastically reduce gov services it might not have the same effect… but reminds me of basic conditions that led to feudal systems historically, except corps would prob be the main landowners instead of local lords

@mike @levisan i was thinking that without other forms of tax, if we also didn’t tax corps, and without tax brackets, gov would essentially have to make the % for income tax quite high. this would put workers/lower/middle in a more vulnerable position, while corps and wealthier folks likely still have more money than before, so can prob buy up newly vulnerable assets/land. long term, seems like would cause concentration of those assets way beyond what it is now

@derek i was wondering what it was like now since brexit! makes me wonder if smuggling happens to avoid the new tariffs and such

@mike @levisan this combined with the flat income tax seems like it’d lead a society towards corporatist oligarchy/aristocracy in the medium to long term, no?

@levisan but in reality you also wouldn’t be stuck w just one type of tax either, so i maybe i should stick w my theoretically ideal choice