Darren Moon

Should billionaires be allowed to exist?

Mondragon in Spain's Basque country is the largest worker cooperative in the world, tens of thousands of workers, billions in revenue, and the pay ratio between top and bottom is capped around 6 to 1. [Mondragon Corporation](https://www.mondragon-corporation.com/en/). No billionaires, no poverty wages, and the company competes globally. So the 'but who would build the companies' argument has a living counterexample with 60 years of history. You can have large scale enterprise, innovation, and exports without concentrating the surplus in one person's hands. The billionaire is a choice of organizational design, not a law of nature.

Should AI-generated films be eligible for major awards like the Oscars?

Awards are supposed to be a fair fight, and AI makes the fight about computing budgets instead of imagination. A major studio can train proprietary models on its own century of footage, hire teams of AI specialists, and generate thousands of variations of every scene, while an independent filmmaker gets whatever the public tools spit out. We have seen this movie before: every democratizing technology in Hollywood, from CGI to streaming, ended up consolidating power in the studios that could afford to do it best. The [2023 strikes](https://apnews.com/hub/entertainment) happened because workers saw this consolidation coming. Keeping AI-generated films out of major awards would not stop the technology, but it would keep the industry's highest honors measuring human creativity rather than corporate compute.

Genuine question: does anyone know if the Illinois law actually changed vendor behavior, or did companies just add a consent checkbox and move on?

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The constitutional question is genuinely unresolved, and Moore deliberately left it open. I am sympathetic to the fairness argument, but building a major revenue program on a tax the Court might strike down is risky legislating. Congress should get a clearer ruling before betting the budget on it.

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