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A Modest Proposal for the Billionaire Problem

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The Billionaire Problem in the United States and throughout the world is something much on the minds of people these days and I have a Modest Proposal for a solution. Billionaires, as we well know, are a persecuted class. Attacked on all sides by socialists, communists, democrats, demons, devils, aliens, both terrestrial and extra-terrestrial, poor people, middle-class people, and even some of the misguided wealthy people of the world. That is to say, everyone except the wise judicial branch of government.

One cannot deny the Billionaire Problem exists and I want to offer a simple, easy, and permanent solution to the problem.

What is the Billionaire Problem?

I suppose the first thing I must address in this Modest Proposal is the actual problem. Billionaires are social minded, job creating, decent, hard-working citizens but they are under siege from the aforementioned malcontents.

The miserable and jealous masses are, for some reason, opposed to the useful and universally beneficial Data Centers that do nothing except improve our lives. Billionaire Tech Bros are subject to legal attacks from all sides. Sony, as another example, must fight to prevent people from actually and horrifyingly owning their own video games. Robert Kraft cannot solicit prostitutes without being harassed by small-minded law-enforcement officials.

The owner of the Los Angeles Clippers faces ludicrous and unreasonable punishment for perfectly normal activities in which he absolutely, positively, did nothing wrong.

Billionaire after billionaire is being forced to hire lawyers to justify their harmless and reasonable relationships with underage girls.

I suppose I could continue with example after examples of the unfair and unreasonable billionaire problem but I think I’ve illustrated the point well enough. The solution is quite simple.

The Billionaire Problem Solution

We see time and time again the blind and completely unbiased justice system exonerating billionaires from local courts all the way to the perfect and obviously infallible Supreme Court. Billionaires always win because they are always right. They do nothing wrong. Ever. The evidence is clear so I think we must simply stop wasting our precious billionaire’s time and money.

The solution is my modest proposal. We must do what is in the interest of everyone, all the people, and simply make the billionaires a protected class; immune from lawsuits, immune from prison, immune from punishment of any kind. Only then will we solve the billionaire problem.

The courts already implement this obvious and simple solution but it takes too much time and effort. Simply cut to the quick of the problem. Total immunity. It is perfectly obvious and clear. Anyone who disagrees is a fool.

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Tom Liberman

Data Centers and GDP a Recipe for Suffering

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I’ve been thinking about GDP and its flaws lately and even wrote a blog on the subject but only just thought about how GDP is measured and the effect of Data Centers and GDP. My economic understanding is incomplete at best but I’ve done a little bit of my own research on the subject and I don’t like what I’m seeing.

Basically, GDP measures economic output and many consider it an excellent measure by which to determine the prosperity of a nation. A negative GDP can result in a recession which is generally considered the worst possible outcome for a nation. What if all, or most, of our GDP growth is related to Data Centers?

Data Centers and GDP

One of the main ways GDP is calculated is using investment and output. Well, tech companies are investing a huge amount in data centers. The data center’s processing power also figures heavily into the equation. Are data centers GDP so intertwined with the GDP that they completely mask their harm to the economy?

Your Local Data Center

It’s hard to shake the idea the reason Data Centers are getting approval in communities across the United States despite almost universal opposition from the people who live in those communities is that the politicians are being fed the false Data Center and GDP paradigm. If you build this data center in our community, our GDP will go up exponentially and that’s great for all the citizens even if they don’t know it.

Spoiler, it’s not. All that investment and computing power isn’t benefitting anyone other than the tech companies and it’s dramatically effecting people’s quality of life. The energy and resource consumption associated with Data Centers are dramatic and, frankly, probably result in many preventable deaths. Now, that’s just my opinion of course, I’m not an economist nor do I play one on television.

Extrapolating the Data Centers and GDP Argument

If our local, state, and federal government officials buy into GDP as it is currently calculated, it seems to me that all our economic growth is an illusion. We are not growing; we are in a recession and have been for some time. The people seem to understand this better than the politicians, probably because they buy groceries, provide for their families, live in a the real world. Politicians, well, better leave it unsaid in which unsavory world they reside.

Conclusion

The way we measure the economy is broken and probably has been for some time. It’s not just Data Centers. It’s big tech in general driving GDP ever higher while leaving the vast majority of citizens left out.

Tom Liberman