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Cake day: March 26th, 2024

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  • I’m not diagnosed autistic or any other form of neurodivergent. To the day if someone asks “how are you?” I might give a real answer. “Not good, my cat is sick and I’m worried he might be dying” was one I gave last year, to a food service worker. He gave me a discount that day, acknowledged that that doesn’t make it better but he did something to show he saw me and we have been a lot more friendly since then.

    I don’t dump on him every time I see him, because I genuinely have good days, but he lights up when he sees me, and that makes me happy too.


















  • Honestly, if we did all that, Billionaires would still be a huge problem.

    They invest all their money. They can’t help it, it’s not malicious, they can’t spend that much money.

    Investments like that get poured into assets, like land and housing. This makes them unaffordable for us non billionaires. Gold and crypto are not significant problems for us plebs, stocks are a moderate problem. But housing is a huge problem for anyone that doesn’t already have one, and a moderate problem for those of us that do own our own homes. It drives up our property taxes and freezes up the labor market, dragging the economy we live in.

    We should redistribute the wealth. Put it to some useful purpose, like healthcare,childcare, or education.

    But we would nearly all be better off if we took all the billionaire fortunes and lit them on fire.