Comments by "bj0rn" (@TheLivirus) on "Joe Rogan Experience #1283 - Russell Brand" video.

  1. 3:11:28 70% tax on income/capital gain over $10M. "Then they'll get to $10M and then they'll stop." I don't think that's true. First of all, since you can use previous gains to leverage future profits, rewards and work packages are not evenly distributed over the wealth ladder. I'm paraphrasing Robert Kiyosaki: "Don't work for money, make money work for you!". So even if the reward waiting at the next step of the ladder is cut by 70%, the reward is still rather sizable. Secondly, I think many people in that league are past the accumulation of wealth as their primary motivation. They're interested in realizing their visions and shaping the world. I think the best economic argument against raising taxes on wealth would be that this simply causes companies to relocate to nations which offer them lower taxes. This is why we need a serious international discussion on taxes, something which is understandably somewhat of a taboo among the elite (see Rutger Bregman at Davos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5LtFnmPruU ).
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  2. On the discussion on Boston Dynamics around 2:00. Joe seems to have forgotten the discussion with Lex Fridman where he explained that Boston Dynamics doesn't really use AI. These robots aren't able to learn, they are hard-coded to do specific tasks.
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  3. I agree, but I'd also add Mark Blyth to that list.
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