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‘We got lazy and complacent’: Swedish pensioners explain how abolishing the wealth tax changed their country.

For some Swedes, the question isn’t simply whether a wealth tax works, but what kind of society has been lost with its abolition.

Sweden’s gini coefficient, the most common way to measure inequality, has reached 0.3 in recent years, up from around 0.2 in the 1980s.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260119-we-got-lazy-and-complacent-swedish-pensioners-explain-how-abolishing-the-wealth-tax-changed-their-country?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Sweden #WealthTax #Inequality #Wealth #GiniCoefficient #SocialScience

‘We got lazy and complacent’: Swedish pensioners explain how abolishing the wealth tax changed their country.

For some Swedes, the question isn’t simply whether a wealth tax works, but what kind of society has been lost with its abolition. Sweden’s gini coefficient, the most common way …

The Conversation UK

Leanpub 4d ago

Dirty Data Dojo: Cleaning Data (Excel & Python): Learn to Clean Your Dirty Data in Minutes, not Months https://leanpub.com/courses/leanpub/dirtydatadojo-excelpython by Lee Baker is the featured course on the Leanpub homepage! https://leanpub.com #Python #BusinessAnalysis #DataScience #Science #SocialScience

Data cleaning is a serious business – you’ll typically spend 80% of your analysis time cleaning data!

In this course you’ll learn how to clean your data in a fraction of the time.

Find it on Leanpub!

Dirty Data Dojo: Cleaning Data (Excel & Python)

Learn how to clean your dirty data in minutes, not months in the Dirty Data Dojo – a data cleaning course in Excel and Python for beginners.

Danish Akhtar 4d ago

Social media and chat apps are supposed to connect people, but instead, loneliness, division, negativity, and hatred are increasing worldwide. Isn't it contradictory?

#social #socialmedia #SocialNetwork #Connection #opinion #thought #analysis #insights #tech #apps #loneliness #chat #Messege #dm #socialscience

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H-Net Humanities 5d ago

Curious on how to get involved in H-Net Spaces?

First, log into H-Net Commons or register for an account here.
https://networks.h-net.org/user/register

Then, fill out our Spaces Request Form.
https://networks.h-net.org/form/spaces-request-form

#spaces #education #academia #highered #digitial #humanities #digitialhumanities #socialscience

Scientific Frontline 5d ago

Environmental phenomena and their consequences can disrupt #social structures and destabilize #political systems. An interdisciplinary research team demonstrated this using the example of the late Tang dynasty in medieval #China
#EarthScience #Environmental #Archeology #SocialScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/01/es01152601.html

How climate change contributed to the demise of the Tang dynasty

This period is interesting because it marked the decline of the Tang dynasty

Hacker News 6d ago

A Brief Introduction to the Basics of Game Theory

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1968579

#HackerNews #GameTheory #Basics #Introduction #Learning #Strategy #SocialScience

Centre for Population Change 6d ago

👩‍🏫 Join us on Thursday 22 January for our next #CPCCGWebinar.

Sha Jiang from @MPIDR will discuss how #adversemortality in 2010-2019 and spikes in #mortality in 2020-2021 resulted in a substantial increase in the number of individuals #bereaved annually in the #UnitedStates

#demography #health #socialscience #socialpolicy #socialsciences #Decompositionanalyses #population #demographic

Scientific Frontline Jan 12

For decades, global efforts to combat #climate change and protect #biodiversity have relied on a high-tech promise: that satellite-derived maps can tell us exactly where the world's #forests are.
#Environmental #SocialScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/01/env01122601.html

New study reveals major gaps in global forest maps

The problem stems from how different researchers define “forest” and the digital technology they use to view forests

John Griogair Bell Jan 12

The Age of Insurrection https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/01/12/the-age-of-insurrection/ #book #DavidNeiwert #DocumentsDInformation #DomesticTerrorism #DomesticTerrorismUnitedStates #ExtreMistesDeDroiteETatsUnis #fascism #GovernmentalInvestigationsUnitedStates #InformationalWorks #Nationalism #Nonfiction #PoliticalScienceTerrorism #PoliticsEconomy #PoliticsSocietyCurrentAffairs #PresidentsUnitedStatesElection #radicalism #RadicalismUnitedStates #RadicalismeETatsUnis #review #RightWingExtremists #RightWingExtremistsUnitedStates #SocialScience #TPolyphilus #Terrorism #TerrorismeInteRieurETatsUnis #unitedStates #UnitedStatesPoliticsAndGovernment

Manga is political Jan 12

According to a tracker, my biggest waste of time this year was reading the terrible Akagi (that took 20 years to publish!!). Here is the review to save your time:

https://mangaispolitical.noblogs.org/post/2025/12/16/review-akagi/

#casino #Comics #feminism #fukumotonobuyuki #gambling #game #gaming
#kindaimahjong #mafia #mahjong #manga #mangareview #menonly #notrecommended #nowomen #psychological #psychology
#review #seinen #sexism #socialscience #survival #tablegames
#thriller #toxicmasculinity #yakusa