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I think itโs rather interesting that despite being far wealthier in absolute terms than a Vanderbilt or Carnegie or Stanford, and being directly positioned in an industry that could benefit from it, no tech elite has ever founded a university, and few have even given endowments
Jun 13
The 10,000 San Franciscans who are about to become millionaires in 2026 are going to fund a new generation of art, architecture and ideas that will shape the world
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From me, "Multiple parties in government: A statement of the problem", link in reply.
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[new draft post] Multiple parties in government: A statement of the problem drafts.interfluidity.com/202โฆ
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Jun 12
Canโt stop thinking about how Wall Street is celebrating Elon Musk becoming the worldโs first trillionaire, while he single handedly eliminated humanitarian aid that will lead to the needless deaths of 4.5 million of the poorest children in the world in the next 4 years.
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โThe real surprise from the OECDโs subsidy numbers is that it cost China less than $18bn in sectoral support over 15 years to build an industry that can now provide more clean power than the world can readily absorb.โ
Jun 7
"Since when were solar panels just another commodity? They are a technological miracle. They make us into farmers of the sun"
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Jun 5
โA family from Mexico arrives this morning legally has as much right to the American Dream as the direct descents of the Founding Fathers.โ
Bob Dole accepting the Republican nomination for President in 1996.
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Jun 3
Income, like property more generally, is a social and legal construct. Itโs not metaphysically real! So this is not a true/false question. Real question is just a practical one about desired system design.
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@interfluidity@zirk.us/interfluidity.com (bsky) retweeted
The most important takeaway here is that it's not remotely enough to return to prior levels of inequality in the US. We must aim for a *lot* more equality than that.
Worth reading this piece from @MattBruenig
theargumentmag.com/p/the-strโฆ
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Jun 1
Should the US really celebrate a massive services surplus (in finance) with Caymans? Worry about a similar deficit (in insurance) with Bermuda? celebrate massive exports of R&D services to Ireland and Switzerland or worry about the lost tax revenues from these trades?
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@interfluidity@zirk.us/interfluidity.com (bsky) retweeted
It seems we are now entering a new phase of the rise of inequality in the US.
It's not just wealth and billionaires โ it's a broader acceleration.
Here's who benefited from economic growth in 2025, according to the latest estimates available on realtimeinequality.org
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@interfluidity@zirk.us/interfluidity.com (bsky) retweeted
May 30
There is a weird (and unacknowledged) Western-centrism that compares only North America (aka the US) and a dozen countries in Western Europe and believes that the answer to that question is the real answer on what works in the world.
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A comic by Bill Whitehead
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May 21
This was an amazing and incredibly damning experiment using Microsoft Copilot, by @adamjkucharski kucharski.substack.com/p/reaโฆ
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May 21
If one takes a comprehensive view of taxation in the US, hereโs the picture that emerges:
All social groups pay broadly the same effective tax rate today โ around 25%-30% of income, all taxes included โ with billionaires having the lowest tax rate: 24% on average in 2018โ20.
gabriel-zucman.eu/files/Saezโฆ
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@interfluidity@zirk.us/interfluidity.com (bsky) retweeted
May 21
Thanks Matt.
Would cite the wisdom of Martin Wolf on the mercantilist fallacy:
โ(โฆ) That China is now doing this to Germany is mildly amusing. But the amusement must stop and action start now.โ
May 20
This is well worth a read.
(and yes I know that the German economy has long relied on external demand to paper over its own domestic problems, sauce for the goose etc, but even so...)
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May 21
Unbelievable, the first Scala framework which was introduced almost 20 years ago is getting full Scala 3 support! ๐คฏ What's your excuse for staying on 2.13? #scala
github.com/lift/framework/reโฆ
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@interfluidity@zirk.us/interfluidity.com (bsky) retweeted
it's genuinely crazy that Elon got free reign to do the exact thing that every "just cut spending" dipshit has wanted to do for decades, it failed catastrophically, and they're still running the exact same script like nothing happened
May 20
Jeff Bezos: "Any corporate or Amazon CFO could find 3% (to cut) in Federal budget on a Tuesday afternoon" to fund zero taxes for bottom half/poor. "This is a skills issue" calling out administration and management incompetence in Federal government and local NYC city school system (He is also calling for higher wages for teachers while cutting outlandish admin budget)
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