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  • Being rich makes you dumb

    … Bezos doesn’t understand the most basic facts about taxes, nor did he make any effort to inform himself. He went instead with some numbers he thinks he heard somewhere — numbers that tell a story he wants to hear. As I said, billionaire brain. https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/bezos-backlash-and-zombies Evidently the man who owns the world’s biggest library…

  • You Could Have a Wealth Tax Raising a Few Billion or Major Reforms to Existing Taxes That Could Raise £100 Billion or More? Which Would You Prefer if You Wanted To Tackle Inequality?

    I like this reframing…I’ve never cared about people being wealthy. I’ve care about: But if you want to tax wealth, what is better, a few billion in many years’ time after a watered-down wealth tax is introduced, or reforms that could be done almost overnight now to existing laws that would undoubtedly raise more money?

  • Musical Interlude: NEW MODEL ARMY – I DID NOTHING WRONG

    As a result of the recent ITV dramatisation, the UK Post Office Scandal is finally front page news in our country. But this monstrous tale of corporate arrogance and cruelty has actually been going on for years. ‘I Did Nothing Wrong’ is from our new album ‘Unbroken’, which will be released on Jan 26th, but…

  • Why We Need Socialism

  • Mute inglorious Miltons

    If effective altruists actually cared, they’d follow this advice. Billions of people alive today (the majority of whom are women) are in the same situation today, with their potential unrealised through lack of access to education and resources to express themselves. Rather than adding to their numbers, or diverting yet more resources away from them,…

  • Bagless billionaire Dyson loses libel lawsuit

    “Sir James Dyson yesterday lost his libel claim against The Daily Mirror, which had published an opinion article mocking the billionaire inventor as a hypocrite for supporting Brexit in the name of bringing economic opportunity home then moving offices to Singapore: “talk the talk but then screw your country and if anyone complains, tell them to suck it…