And tax 100% of profits over a certain amount. We did this in the 50s — as a result, companies invested in the business to avoid taxes. Result? Hiring more people.
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Not only that but its like cultural heroin, slowly corrupting and addicting your mind, turning you into someone that can't argue in real life without causing a scene
You do you, but:
One of the things we discovered in the early days of Bluesky is that quote-dunking drives toxicity.
It’s like being at a cocktail party and when someone says something you don’t like, shouting to the entire room: “HEY LISTEN TO WHAT THIS ASSHOLE JUST SAID!”
So maybe don’t?
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Interestingly, one of the institutions I profile in my book is able to give faculty raises every year, and the president attributed it to two factors: 1) control of administrator salaries and 2) control of salary differences between faculty in different disciplines.
When we reestablish rule of law in the US, one of the reforms we should make is a law capping CEO compensation (salary, options, etc) as a fixed multiple of that of the lowest paid worker (employee, IC, whatever.)
If CEOs couldn’t make more than 20x the minimum pay, you’d see wages skyrocket.
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Blocking rather than dunking was an early ethos that should still apply, even as the platform has scaled.
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A whole lot of journalists and Democratic politicians believed it was bad to object to sending people to CECOT, because that would strengthen Trump by reminding Americans how much they want an immigration crackdown, and they kept saying so even after the polls showed it was wrong. Why?
Consuming a daily stream of Nazi propaganda does not have to turn you into a Nazi to distort your perceptions of the world
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I made a promise to the women of Illinois — as governor, I will ensure your medical decisions will be your own.
Now, we continue fulfilling that promise.
Public colleges will now provide contraception and medication abortion at on-campus pharmacies and student health centers.
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a first step to organizing people to do anything right now is just bringing people together for anything—to vent. to eat together. to make art.
to remind people we have each other. to ask what we can do together. to keep the despair at bay.
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The near daily Zoom calls between blue state attorneys general:
Fascinating and encouraging.
"Twenty-three Democratic attorneys general now gather on near-daily Zoom calls at 8 AM Pacific, which means the East Coast officials are already on their third coffee. They divide responsibilities and share templates for lawsuits they’ve been drafting since last spring."
It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession”
Blue states are finally learning what red states have known all along: you don’t need federal permission to govern.
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Andrew Cuomo going on Fox News to accuse Zohran Mamdani of caring about “woke issues” and talk about how much he’s scared of the subway seems like a pretty clear sign that he has abandoned the Democratic Party.
