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Richard Stallman's Political Notes

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Banks still financing fossil fuels

samedi 6 novembre 2021 à 01:00

*Banks are still financing fossil fuels –- while signing up to net zero pledges.*

Tax dodging and hiding wealth

samedi 6 novembre 2021 à 01:00

Each state and territory in the US has its own laws that determine how much it facilitates tax dodging and hiding wealth.

Zillow has given up

samedi 6 novembre 2021 à 01:00

Zillow has given up on the business of peculating in houses that other people need as places to live.

Abuses in privatizing access to space

samedi 6 novembre 2021 à 01:00

Warning of potential abuses in privatizing access to space.

Communications satellites are already private -- built and operated by large companies which pay to launch them. It is not clear to me that SpaceX makes the situation very different. But there may be problems I do not recognize.

Debt payments reduced

samedi 6 novembre 2021 à 01:00

New York City has reduced the debt payments for taxi medallion owners who borrowed to buy a medallion.

One of several contributing causes of the medallion owners' problem is the arrival of Uber, which was prepared to lose billions of dollars a year for many years to wipe out the taxi companies.

Uber would have been an injustice simply for the concentration of the industry of replacing many small local companies with one large company, even if there were nothing else wrong with it. But its biggest wrong is to its customers: it makes them run a nonfree app on a nonfree operating system, and they can't pay anonymously since the company does not accept cash.

Uber was compelled to stop running at a loss, and raise its prices. Uber drivers make less than taxi drivers now. Uber is now weak. So choose a real taxi, and pay in cash!