Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period.Jan 17Pluralistic: The world needs an Ireland for disenshittification (17 Jan 2026)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/17/erin-lets-go/
"[t]he Delaware-based company that founded this experimental town in 2017 has raised $120 million in investments — including from venture-capital funds backed by the Silicon Valley billionaires Peter Thiel, Sam Altman and Marc Andreessen — to transform the territory, about twice the size of Monaco, into the most developed start-up city in the world. Built in a semiautonomous jurisdiction known as a ZEDE (a Spanish acronym for Zone for Employment and Economic Development), Próspera is a private, for-profit city, with its own government that courts foreign investors through low taxes and light regulation. Businesses can choose a regulatory framework from a menu of 36 countries or customize their own.
A California company offers a Montessori education for approximately 60 students. Security is provided by a private firm of armed guards. An arbitration center staffed by three retired Arizona judges handles dispute resolution. (In order to enter the jurisdiction, I was told I needed to sign an “agreement of coexistence” binding myself to 4,202 pages of rules, violations of which would be subject to the jurisdictional authority of the arbitration center.)"
#Crypto #Crytpocurrencies #Bitcoin #TaxHavens #Honduras #Cyberlibertarianism #Prospera
People are rightfully concerned about the #influence of #SecretSocieties, now that one has been caught with #Epstein. They are popular among #capitalists and #politicians, as ways to protect their #power, and they do have a larger impact and reach than we generally realize.
But it's important to avoid #ConspiracyTheories. There's not just one that controls the whole #world. Ultimately the problem is #systemic, with #corruption being enabled by #TaxHavens, #RegulatoryCapture, and #DarkMoney.
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period.Dec 1Pluralistic: Meta's new top EU regulator is contractually prohibited from hurting Meta's feelings (01 Dec 2025)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/01/erin-go-blagged/
World leaders: take back our billions
Every year, the world loses nearly $350 billion in public funds because huge multinationals hide their profits in tax havens, that means we're losing the monthly salaries for a nurse and school teacher combined, every second.
Wishful thinking
https://www.blipfoto.com/entry/3430316933180817667
#blip of four #ATTAC multi-milliard bank notes
#blipfoto #gimp #rawtherapee #Photography #TaxTheRich #taxevasion #money #milliardaires #taxhavens
If you are a UK resident please sign this petition, there is plenty of evidence that past similar zones have simply resulted in business profits with little long term job creation or benefit to the local community.
To ensure full transparency by releasing data on governance, funding, and operations of free zones. Plus a public review to assess impacts, such as job displacement and value for taxpayers money
In vista della Cop30 di Belém, in Brasile, che inizia il 10 novembre, i movimenti per il clima e la giustizia fiscale si danno appuntamento a Campinas, sempre in Brasile, per tenere insieme due emergenze troppe volte tenute distinte. "Il divario finanziario in materia di clima è in realtà un divario di sovranità fiscale. Ci sono già migliaia di miliardi disponibili ma i governi sono stati privati del potere di recuperarli", spiegano Bemnet Agata e Franziska Mager, ricercatrici di Tax justice network
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