Mark Zuckerberg Argues High Taxes On Wealthy Could Stifle Innovation In Human Suffering

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PALO ALTO, CA—Warning that progressive Democrats’ plans to fund government projects through tax increases on billionaires would have significant negative consequences, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg reportedly argued Monday that high taxes on the wealthy could stifle innovation in human suffering. “If there’s anything that the rise of Silicon Valley has taught us, it’s that in order to make trailblazing breakthroughs in cruelty and technological oppression, we need to empower the private sector,” said Zuckerberg, adding that without the promise of being able to fund and ultimately make money off of his inventions, he would have never worked to erode civil liberties, invade people’s privacy on a grand scale, and manipulate the democratic process by creating Facebook. “If we want the kind of brutal, intrusive solutions that the market can provide, we can’t punish those who have risen to the top based on their genius at perpetuating human suffering. Take the medical industry for example—sure, government agencies and public-sector grants can help researchers develop lifesaving medicines, but only visionaries driven by the promise of unimaginable wealth can come up with ingenious ways to drive people into cycles of addiction or massive medical debt. If we stifle the creative potential of our country’s most successful business people, think of all the devastation and daily compromises on people’s lives that we may never discover.” Zuckerberg did concede that raising taxes on the richest Americans would help relieve the immense pressure to find innovative ways to hide their wealth from the government.

 

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bourgeoisalien Cmon lol, it's not an Onion. That's exactly their way of arguing.

He might have to wear a mere $50 gray cotton blend t-shirt

cameron_kasky He should talk to Bill Gates & Warren Buffett!! Two real men!!!

The plight of the billionaire.

cameron_kasky 😂

This is an actual story in wired.

PFTompkins This is just dirty socialist porn. For people who have given up, from what the replies are.

PFTompkins Oh my! What a pretty girl!!!!

The only motive. Hr sees for doing good is money Break up and tax facebook

Wunmizak 😂

Zuckerberg is Lore. Prove me wrong. StarTrekTNG

the line between the onion and actual real life argument is blurring

absrdNEWS NateRockQuarry your thoughts sir?

What's your Pokemon Zuckerberg?

Can someone restore that thing to factory settings? Its cached too much junk data to clear properly.

'Oh, American people, I have such sights to show you!' - Mark Zuckerberg, October 2019, while dragging an NPR field reporter into the chasms and depths of Hell itself

Liberals be like 'I wish there was less suffering in the world' Yeah I bet you would Fr*cking Liberals

'—sure, government agencies and public-sector grants can help researchers develop lifesaving medicines, but only visionaries driven by the promise of unimaginable wealth can come up with ingenious ways to drive people into cycles of addiction or massive medical debt'

DeleteFacebook

Millions of dirt-poor hillbillies living in red states up in arms over the possibility that the wealthy could pay higher taxes. Plan to make their outrage known at the polls.

Don't know whether to laugh or cry.

You are on to something. The ways in which we can obliterate our lives have barely been explored. Sure, diseased water. Bad sewage. No income. Those are good starts. But we must learn to think beyond that, there’s so much more.

Oddly, Zuckerberg looks less human every year.

Real headlines now, huh?

A greedy old white guy in the body of a greedy young white guy.

Would everybody please, think of the Billionaires!

We must watch the slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww painful death of the peasant peoples

In unrelated news, Zuckerberg shed his skin for the seventh time in three days. Zuckerberg's only response to questions about his stress level has been to blink in binary to relay his thoughts.

Omg lol

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