kindarooster

I wish I heard this view on taxes more often. Have a nice smooth tax curve up to like 95% at some income level (5 or 10 M). The rich are not taxed anywhere close to enough.

Looking forward to https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/light-phone-2-design#/

I love the idea of encouraging civic engagement. And there are probably things that can be done on a political level to make the playing field more even. We have the responsibility of making those things happen and supporting civil engagement via vacation policy is a good way to enable it.

It's just easy to forgot sometimes that many of us do come from a place of privilege so it's good to remind ourselves of it sometimes.

It's odd to me the government doesn't incentive participation in politics more and yet we have things like compulsory jury duty.

One of the huge underlying issues here as a country is lack of understanding and communication across groups. If I was trying to help, but I was actually doing something that hurts out of ignorance, then I hope someone would point it out to me.

Again, I think the intentions are good but the execution has unconsidered side effects.

Like or or not, a policy like this unfairly amplifies the voice of the majority and weakens your voice as a minority due to the nature of tech companies.

A fund that dispersed compensation to people in a way that properly reflects the diversity of this country would be more fair. Tech companies and their workers do not represent the diversity of this country. That's all I'm saying.

Specify part-time working minorities was probably a little too specific, but these people represent a large portion of the population and I don't know how one is supposed to participate in politics when one is having trouble making rent.

Not that I think this is a bad idea but by the current nature of tech it's somewhat biased. Give more educated white males more time to participate in politics.

I would rather see the money spent on time off go to compensating part-time working minorities to participate in politics.

My take from this is that Trump is a symptom of a problem. The problem is never going to go away by attacking Trump or his policies. He is promising a solution to a problem that people are experiencing in the US. Like it or not, people are buying his solution.

If you don't like his solution, then you find a better one and sell it the people who are buying Trump's.

But most importantly, before we build another product to sell, we have to understand the problem. Get out of our ivory tower and understand the plight some people are experiencing.