Have a good move and adjustment to your new home! Miez reminds me of a cat clock in the video
One long-time teacher, who did not want to be identified for fear of professional retribution, said the timing of the email is particularly galling given the audit and the recent $39,000, three-day retreat to the Toronto Blue Jays stadium hotel by school board brass amid a $7.6-million board budget deficit.
“Draft bill attached,” wrote a lobbyist representing two influential fossil fuel trade groups to the lead counsel for the West Virginia state energy committee in January 2020.
Friendly reminder: Tim Hortons hasn't been Canadian-owned since 1995
So true. As others have remarked on here, entshittification really changes the calculus of "is piracy worth it?"
Great article. Nice to see an economist doing such important work. I don't really understand finances. I snipped the parts of the article that helped me understand the finding/headling. There's a great chart in the article of taxation differences since the 1960s too - staggering! Plutocracy in action!
Published in The New York Times with the headline "It's Time to Tax the Billionaires," Zucman's analysis notes that billionaires pay so little in taxes relative to their vast fortunes because they "live off their wealth"—mostly in the form of stock holdings—rather than wages and salaries.
Stock gains aren't currently taxed in the U.S. until the underlying asset is sold, leaving billionaires like Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Tesla CEO Elon Musk—a pair frequently competing to be the single richest man on the planet—with very little taxable income.
"But they can still make eye-popping purchases by borrowing against their assets," Zucman noted. "Mr. Musk, for example, used his shares in Tesla as collateral to rustle up around $13 billion in tax-free loans to put toward his acquisition of Twitter."
Shrinkflation noobs. Never specify the size of a (pseudo-)prepared product. It's better to use abstract terms like large, extra large, and jumbo that can be shrunk down in size without increasing legal liability down whenever you wish to juice your profits a bit (/s)
Definitely not genocide /s
Defunding biodiversity science at a time like this...
Anti-genocide and anti-apartheid ≠ antisemitism
Removing downvoting feels intuitively wrong to me (eg, I believe that dissent is a really important part of a healthy democracy). If all those mega-corp platforms are removing downvoting, then I'm pretty confident my intuition on this matter is correct
Loaf and blep? Jack's giving the people what they want!