Human toilet brush Tobi Lutke (pictured above realizing he’s full of shit) has endorsed this proposal on U.S. voting rights. (From Fortune):

Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke, whose company commands a market capitalization near $154 billion, told his social media followers this week that a tax-tiered voting system—one that would strip voting rights from anyone who pays no income tax—would be a “good system.”

That two-word endorsement, dropped into a viral thread, has reignited a debate over wealth, power, and democracy that most Americans thought was settled more than a century ago.

The proposal would invert the founding American principle of “no taxation without representation” into something closer to “no representation without taxation”—and specifically, high taxation. Reactions online split sharply: Some framed it as a provocative thought experiment about aligning fiscal responsibility with political voice, while others called it a naked attempt to legitimize plutocracy by giving billionaires and multimillionaires a formal, multiplied vote over the laws that govern everyone else.

The exchange began with a provocation from Lütke: Pension recipients should have their financial futures “locked in and guaranteed,” but in return would be reclassified as “dependents” and lose the right to vote—the same way minors can’t vote. A reply from “Eric Thor,” who claimed to be a retired banking executive as well as “armchair economist and policy wonk,” proposed a sliding scale: zero votes for anyone who pays no income tax, one vote for those earning $1–100K, two votes for $100–200K, scaling up in that pattern to a hard cap of five votes for anyone earning $500K or more. The pitch was framed as fairness—reward “representation” for those who “foot the bill” through taxation.

That was the good system that Lütke endorsed.

OK, let’s look into this fuckwad.

According to Forbes magazine:

• Tobi Lutke is the cofounder and CEO of Shopify, a Canadian e-commerce firm that helps companies set up and run online stores.
• He owns about 6% of Shopify, which went public in 2015.
• Shopify generated nearly $9 billion in 2024 revenue; it is used by some two million businesses, including Kylie Cosmetics, Allbirds and Gymshark.
• Lutke grew up in Germany, where he learned to code by age 12 and left school at 16 to enter a computer programming apprenticeship.
• He began developing the e-commerce platform after he and a friend tried to open an online snowboard shop but couldn’t find decent software.

Forbes also notes that as of today, his current net worth is $13.3 billion.

And get this!

Tobias Lütke (born 1980) is a German Canadian entrepreneur and racing driver who is the co-founder and CEO of Shopify, an e-commerce company based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He competes in the 2025 IMSA SportsCar Championship driving in LMP2 for Era Motorsport.

So, this clown, who isn’t even an American citizen, is endorsing a proposal that would eliminate voting rights for people who are using the products that made him a billionaire.

According to the Pew Research Center:

In 2020, the IRS received nearly 5.3 million individual tax returns that showed no AGI (adjusted gross income) and hence no taxable income. (About 4,600 of those people ended up paying tax anyway, mainly due to the alternative minimum tax.) Another 60.3 million returns showed AGIs of less than $30,000. The average effective tax rate for those taxpayers was 1.5%, even before refundable tax credits were applied.

Here’s an idea.

Boycott Shopify and the companies that use his platform. Drive Lutke into financial ruin. When his fortune drops to zero, he’ll have the same number of votes he wants to give millions of Americans.

As for those who “framed it as a provocative thought experiment about aligning fiscal responsibility with political voice,” may they find a life of unemployment and poverty.

Oh, and for others who wonder what this has to do with Kentucky (after all, we are the Bluegrass Blues Podcast), an AI search notes:

Shopify Users in Kentucky

As of the latest available data, Kentucky has about 8,883 live Shopify stores Store Leads. These stores are spread across the state’s major cities, with Louisville leading at 2,153 stores, followed by Lexington (1,019) and Bowling Green (284) (Store Leads).

Understanding the numbers

• Total Shopify stores in the U.S.: Around 3.75 million (Demand Sage).
• Kentucky’s share: 8,883 stores represent roughly 0.24% of all U.S. Shopify stores.
• Population context: Kentucky’s population is about 4.7 million people. At current store counts, this means there are roughly 1.87 Shopify stores per 1,000 residents in the state.

Market context

Shopify holds a 30% share of the U.S. e-commerce market (Demand Sage), meaning nearly one in three online stores in the U.S. run on Shopify. While Kentucky’s Shopify adoption is much smaller than national averages, it still reflects a growing e-commerce presence in the state.

In summary: If you’re in Kentucky, there are currently about 8,883 active Shopify stores, making it a relatively small but active part of the state’s e-commerce ecosystem compared to larger states.

We live in one of the poorest states in America. There are a lot of Shopify users in Kentucky who would have no vote if Lutke got his way.