Agreed, but without a mechanism like this the distributional impact will be extremely skewed aka wealthy will pay whatever it costs to get what they desire

Funded by a wealth tax, otherwise you would be putting the majority of the burden on the poor

Is wealth a better measure than income? Wealth inequality far outstrips income inequality and plutocrats don’t earn actual income in the conventional sense.

Can’t figure out why online news sites are going broke

Surely on polymarket by now

Ok but just for the record I was not on the list of choices

Word of the day

European or etc

Hide Distracting Items is one of my favorite features ever. You can just go pew! pew! while you’re reading

Bluesky recognize a rhetorical question challenge (impossibl)

A FEMA official has repeatedly claimed that he can teleport.

A picture you literally Don’t See Everyday

The Iran war is like a boxer blocking punches with his face except in this case his face is the size of a hot air balloon

The use of “Organically” in that reply is interesting framing too. It’s just nature at work!

A list of trending topics that aren’t all talking about an insane person who is threatening to do an insane thing

There is something wrong with the world when these are the trending topics right now

Dick?

Who won the game was it the lady’s team or the man’s team?

🤔

Will bluesky beat twitter’s record time to add an edit button?

Have to imagine that $100+ oil will reduce demand dramatically in the long run via substitution hence lower flow through strait?

Is there a “finals.interfluidity.com”?

I pity the fool who bought a MY2022 anything vehicle

The ultra wealthy justify their right to their extreme share of global wealth by claiming (apparently self-evident) superior talent in capital allocation when in reality it’s largely due to chance and at best their skills are mildly better than average

Kind of makes you wonder about their supposedly superior capital allocation talents

There's no way this should be controversial. That wealth is earning minimum 7%+ tax free and the first $50M (i.e. $3.5M per year asset growth) is not taxed at all. At best, this is a starting point.

They just tossed the jars in a bin!

I found it, the most deranged way a grocery store has ever displayed pasta sauce

Not sure why but I'm getting impending real world Harkonnen vs Fremen dust up vibes

Supplied by 100% renewable energy, I assume

This amount of generation would be enough to power several thousand mid-sized factories

After seemingly struggling to obtain enough signatures, Republicans submitted a huge batch right at the deadline. But opponents asked signatories—some of whom said they'd been duped into signing—to remove their names. A sufficient number did to knock the ballot measure below the minimum.