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是时候阻止鲁莽的人工智能首次公开募股并对亿万富翁征税了It’s time to block reckless AI IPOs and tax billionaires

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“他们统治的工具是税收漏洞、企业并购,以及在许多这类亿万富翁所在的科技界,还有首次公开募股。” 照片:Jeenah Moon/路透社‘The tools of their domination are tax loopholes, corporate mergers, and, in the tech world where many of these billionaires exist, IPOs.’ Photograph: Jeenah Moon/Reuters

我们不能让亿万富翁阶层拿我们的未来冒前所未有的风险。美国是一个深陷危机且四分五裂的国家。尽管特朗普政府给出了乐观的经济预测,但数百万美国人仍在挣扎着寻找并保住工作、在不断上涨的生活成本下苦苦支撑,并在最需要医疗保险时失去保障。

We cannot let the billionaire class take unprecedented risks with our future America is a divided country in crisis. Despite the sunny economic forecast coming from the Trump administration, millions of Americans are struggling to find and keep jobs, getting crushed under the rising cost of living, and losing health insurance when they need it the most.

与此同时,通过企业整合和政治腐败,亿万富翁阶层的财富积累速度空前绝后:仅在过去两年里,财富就增长了40%。如今,近3000名全球亿万富翁的财富总额相当于全世界全年总产出的五分之一。近千名亿万富翁在美国生活并开展业务。

Meanwhile, via corporate consolidation and political corruption, the billionaire class is getting richer faster than ever before: a 40% increase in wealth in just the last two years. Today, the combined wealth of nearly 3,000 global billionaires equals one-fifth of the entire world’s yearly output. Nearly 1,000 billionaires live and do business in the United States.

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