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  • Historical consequences of a wealth tax:

    CountryOutcomeKey EffectsStatus
    FranceLow revenue, capital flightMillionaire emigration; investment declineRepealed (2017)
    SwedenAvoidance, offshore assetsWealth moved abroadRepealed (2007)
    DenmarkDistorted savingsHigh admin costRepealed (1997)
    GermanyLegal + admin issuesHard-to-value assetsSuspended (1997)
    NorwayStill activeSome relocation; moderate revenueActive
    Netherlands, Austria, Finland, IcelandSimilar issuesLow yield, high avoidanceRepealed

    In other words, it’s just bad tax policy, hard to track and introduces administrative burden, and encourages further obfuscation. Alternative: Income tax reform is a better solution.

  • Welcome back to The Jungle. We’ve gotta make financial gains.

  • Better to have loved a bot than to never have loved at all.

  • Heard a podcast about this one. Maybe Snap Judgement? Didn’t he consciously “look the other way” and was caught allowing beer on his plane before?

    Not that I agree with seizing the guy’s plane, and therefore his livelihood, but let’s let all of the facts speak for themselves.

  • No, probably not, but interesting perspective.

    If I were in government and I knew the PM only lasted something around 3-6 months, then I’d be back room planning what agendas to push in the legislature with each new PM. “Ok, Albert will be the fall guy for pension reform, Buddy the fall guy for healthcare reform, Colleen the fall gal for immigration reform…” ad infinitum until the public boots out the party in power.

    And if I were a certain type of “the people” loving scrupulous party member, perhaps I’d jump ships when the new one set sail.

  • Ugh, only if you’re in that dimension. You know the one.

  • In the underdark, there exist things that should remain unseen.

  • I think this very much depends on the person. My boss is one of those types who feels more connected when he is talking around the water cooler. I am very much not. Before him as boss, I was very much thriving in a remote/travel gig, under him, I am very much not.

    Not to say I’m going to change my remote status, for one, I’m 1000 miles away. If I change anything, it would be places of employment.

    As for this infographic? Like most things in life - it depends. Figure out your boss, and your boss’s boss. Then do what you need to do to achieve your goals.

  • I will never understand a certain counter culture’s attraction to American Spirit cigarettes. I roomed with the owner’s son back in university. The company is owned by frat douches. The son and I once got into a fight over the placement of a guest mattress (for his friend) and he tried to break my jaw. Serious anger issues there.

  • Yea, but when’s the last time you caught beans hanging out with Prussian Blue?

  • I woke this morning to thinking of socialism. The wind in the US is shifting. Not just the left either. Working class people are fed up of barely getting by. The last time this happened at scale was the 70s, Cities around the country built tall buildings to house folks, many of which were poorly maintained and turned to cesspools (but not all) and eventually were torn down. I hope we learn from the mistakes of the past - not only build massive buildings, but the infrastructure to support them too. People need green spaces…and not just roads and parking lots.

    I’m optimistic that we will get closer to a success this time. It’s a shame other western countries get to have nice things while we have to work 3 jobs to cover the rent.

    How do I plan to prepare? Inform, advocate, encourage. Vote.

  • Reference to a zombie movie.

  • I was in Miramar a few months back. Some of the larger condo complexes definitely had signs up saying most of the beach was private, it was only a sliver right by the waves that was public access.

    Coral Gables too, there were swathes gated off to private residences. Not sure if it was legal or not, but sure seemed to be accepted.

  • You have that problem too, huh?

  • Mmm I wonder what those burgers taste like.

  • They put that shit on everything!

  • You are in your own bubble and haven’t seen enough countries then. Iran links church with state. Afghanistan overthrew the democracy that the western world attempted to install. There are a glut of totalitarian regimes in Africa, Southern Asia and Central Asia that are monoculture. Russia, Belarus and even Vietnam are oft considered more conservative.

    The US is one of the most diverse countries in the world. Consider your perspective, why do you fear guns so much? Do you see them all that often? What do they connote to you?

    To me, they demonstrate that we still have utility against an oppressive government. Remember when Trump said “we have to take their guns?” They only want the “right people” to have guns, their people. Because then they have all the power and can coerce us any way they see fit. And yes, they have tanks, and yeah, they have bombs, but did you see how well that worked in Afghanistan? And it’s not like we’re all clustered in one place.

  • Keep us updated when the fridge makes its move.

  • Let them eat crab cakes.

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    But he's right, ya know. We work harder.

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  • Writing Prompts @literature.cafe

    You are at a banquet. At a table, you can hear the dinnerware waging a significant battle in the war between good and evil.

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    Repeat after me: The power they HAVE is the POWER we CEDE.

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    If a 2M employee return to work order is declared soon, I could see us in the US finding ourselves with tent cities full of white collar workers.

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