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  • It’s a lot worse than that, and goes back much farther. The feds have been buying data broker information claiming the 4th amendement doesn’t apply, and judges backed them up.

    The administration streamlined it, buying all of it and distributing it to agencies, before they bought it piecemeal, each agency, and often paid more than once as such for the same tranches of information.

    This happened all through Biden, and before, not sure when it started exactly. But the data brokers have more information than you can imagine, and much is incorrect, insulting, and dangerous to us, and we have no way of knowing what is there, let alone challenging false assumptions and the like.







  • Sometimes, yes. A large amount of the time in fact. You obviously have never been without health insurance, and with only good insurance if you don’t know that.

    But the law as written is dishonest. and geared for the most incapable. Neverminding the latter, Marijuana for instance, has a level that makes anyone driving within a week or two of smoking guilty, at the polices’ pleasure, of driving intoxicated. Even legal states, it’s still like 4 ng/ml of blood, an infetestimally low amount, before legalization any amount would suffice, and they round up to 1 ng/ml even though the false positives on amounts that low are 40%. Tylenol is one source of the false positives but I digress.

    The law is dishonest, and medical personnel are often as well though many are not, the system and laws themselves are dishonest, and that leads to even the honest medical personnel following the rules giving inaccurate information. If they told the truth in some cases, they would be drummed out of the corp in fact.

    We could talk all day about this in fact.









  • bedwyr@piefed.catoFunny@sh.itjust.works•lol
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    Putin is probably a trillionaire, he’s rumoured to have long been the richest person in the world in truth, since at least like ten years ago. ie, he owns all the vodka production, a traditional monopoly of the tsar. But he’s pieces of all the businesses they say, in secret holding companies or whatever.




  • Idk about that, no perfect metric, but a company that earns 1 billion a year, and is likely to continue to do so, is worth about 15 billion in stock price. (edited to correct 1 to 15 from 15 to 1.)

    Obviously tech especially is out of whack. The entire market is out of whack, partly because the last two big downturns had the government bailing them out to make more than if the market didn’t crash at all.

    But the lack of enforcements of regulations or consequences, is another big factor, and there are others.

    That said, I don’t think late stage capitalism even captures where we are right now. It’s an oligarchy, a partial fascist one, a police state. Plus the government is taking stock in companies now. Intel, now this Venezuela oil deal, (a joke, they can’t get any more oil to speak of, not even in the 25 years their contract is for, that’s why the oil majors declined, but that’s another story, other than the government gets to buy at production cost, and gets like 25 percent of the company.)

    It’s oligarchic repression, sliding into authoritarianism. But my argument is admittedly just semantic and not well fleshed out perhaps.