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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸@bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · yesterday

“Polanski disgraced himself by more than tripling the Greens’ vote share from the last election, taking 33% in a Labour safe seat during Burnham’s honeymoon period. This was only the second best by-election performance in the Greens’ history. Every sensible person is suggesting Polanski resign”🤣😂🤣

Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸@bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · yesterday

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Chris Farnell@thebrainofchris.bsky.social · yesterday

Thanks! I'm going to file this right between all my studies on the broad benefits of UBI, and all the studies showing how gender affirming care helps young people, on the fifth shelf along from the Lost Ark, just down the corridor from that mortuary full of all the dead aliens and Paul McCartney.

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2d ago

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from Norway, 2021-2025 Marius A. K. Ring WORKING PAPER 35854| DOl 10.3386/w35854 ISSUE DATE October 2026 Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times, 2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms. Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · 2d ago

the year is 2030 and i no longer consume anything that isn't personalized to me. every game, every book, every movie extends to the limits of my own imagination and no further. i haven't been surprised in five years. i cry softly, in bewilderment, if i see a word i don't know

Bugs, Yaoist@bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 3d ago

maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me

Paul Ifeanyichukwu Gabriel @ @...•2h Can you explain to me like a 5 yrs old ? Nikita Bier @nikitabier • 2h Every video game -- and every piece of software -- will be personalized exactly to your preferences.
Th[Ominous Whoosh]@mrmoth.eurosky.social · 2d ago

I can play here, for sure - on our first wedding anniversary we went to Norwich and had lunch at the cathedral. Baked potatoes. Literally just the worst potato I've eaten in my life. We just looked at each other like "how do you fuck up a baked potato?" But they did, those crazy bastards.

Nothings Monstered@nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 2d ago

Lots of people are responding with paeans to tubers (richly deserved praise it is), so perversely I started wondering about the *worst* potato I've ever had. The first thing that came to mind was some poorly prepared instant potatoes — still a little bit powdery at the end.