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www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f... What happens when #oil sales drop thanks to #China #EV growth? And it is so hot that borderline enslaved #migrant #labor from #poor parts of the world literally cannot survive the #heat #tax will go up in some shape or form and then what?

Dubai’s potent lure: the reali...

‘Dubai sells itself’: real-estate boom as entrepreneurs and fortune hunters arrive

City-state grows by 200,000 people a year as professional migrants are attracted from UK, Europe, US and Russia

The Guardian

TinJar 14h ago

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/05/dubai-real-estate-fortune-hunters-entrepreneurs-population

What happens when #oil sales drop thanks to #China #EV growth? And it is so hot that borderline enslaved #migrant #labor from #poor parts of the world literally cannot survive the #heat

#tax will go up in some shape or form to make up for those two things and then what?

‘Dubai sells itself’: real-estate boom as entrepreneurs and fortune hunters arrive

City-state grows by 200,000 people a year as professional migrants are attracted from UK, Europe, US and Russia

The Guardian

WIST Quotations 2d ago

A quotation from Oscar Wilde

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet, wit, dramatist
Essay (1891-02), “The Soul of Man Under Socialism,” Fortnightly Review, Vol. 49 (ns)

More about this quote: wist.info/wilde-oscar/81828/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #oscarwilde #advice #budget #heartlessness #impoverished #insult #necessity #need #poor #poverty #spending #thrift

Wilde, Oscar - Essay (1891-02), "The Soul of Man Under Socialism," Fortnightly Review, Vol. 49 (ns) | WIST Quotations

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

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Martin Reitsma 2d ago

Trump Openly Said He Wants To Punish The Poor. Believe Him
Trump Openly Said He Wants To Punish The Poor. Believe Him
#Donaldtrump #Poor

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Trump Openly Said He Wants To Punish The Poor. Believe Him

When Donald Trump says housing prices should stay high to protect homeowners, he’s repeating one of the oldest scripts in the country: protect wealth at the top and call it fairness. From the outset, America has maintained the unspoken Constitutional fine print that the poor must stay poor.

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Hendrik Pfaff 🇪🇺

3d ago

@syntaxseed I was always under the impression that wealth transfer from the #Poor to the #Rich was the main selling point of #AI ...

TinJar 3d ago

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/o... 1/ Deja vu - exactly same conversation about #CO2 between #rich and #poor countries since the 1990s. If #Americans from #Colorado cannot find a way to collaborate w/ those in #California - why would one expect anything different from #climatechange #negotiations.

Opinion | The Water Conflict a...

Opinion | These Four States Are in Denial Over a Looming Water Crisis

Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming should let go of their thirsty aspirations and accept that the era of Western expansion is over.

The New York Times

TinJar 3d ago

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/opinion/water-shortage-colorado-river.html

Deja vu - exactly same conversation about #CO2 between #rich and #poor countries since the 1990s. If #Americans from #Colorado cannot find a way to collaborate w/ those in #California - why would one expect anything different from #international #climatechange #negotiations. Mind you, California NIMBYs made sure that no one else can #migrate to their state either. Same w/ international #migration

#water #river #US #climate #climatecrisis

Opinion | These Four States Are in Denial Over a Looming Water Crisis

Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming should let go of their thirsty aspirations and accept that the era of Western expansion is over.

The New York Times

TinJar Jan 28

https://www.ft.com/content/b4d2c7a3-587d-440f-a7a9-7e5e85b93a88

The thing is that growth of #liberal #democracy implies the hitherto #oppressed (e.g. #women, #poor, #marginalized, etc.) became better off and the ones at the top (i.e. #men from dominant #tribes) started really hating that. They subverted democracy to gain more #money (low #taxes) and #power to turn back time (i.e. #MAGA) They use both money and power to increase #tribalism which weakens #liberal #democracy that in turn weakens #economic #growth - get it?