Systems engineer. Loves bicycling up and down New England especially in autumn. Servant to cats as are we all whether one is aware of it or not.
Systems thinking is a necessary component to, well, saving the world.
@brokenneon @rbreich taxing the wealthy at fair -higher- rates actually strongly encourages them to spend money in pretax, tax deferred, and tax deductible investments as way to reduce what they'd would pay in taxes without said investments.
So - a minor and rather simplistic example:
A very wealthy person compensates himself very well from his business. Taxes on the wealthy are then significantly increased from their unjustly low rates of today.
The business owner, in order to v lower what he's paying in the new tax structure, then invests in his business rather than pay himself an obnoxiously high salary as a method of lessening how much he's paying in taxes.
The business then grows from that self investment while putting money back into the economy.
In the end, it's a win-win. The business grows due to the self investment and therefore the business owner is actually worth *more* than if he paid himself an obnoxiously high salary.
@Kayray thank you! I'll check it out. My long past dad did such things many years ago. For instance, he'd rebuild a foot powered grinding stone, figuring out what the metal frame must have looked like, building the pedals. He'd bring it back to life.
My Lebanese dad was also very quiet man; he'd hardly say a word as he'd do such things. What I learned from him was usually by doing, not speaking.
I'm very much looking forward to this - thanks again.
Ditto!
It's kind of like being in a crazy house (Twitter) full of screaming people for so long that we've become a bit insensitive to it all
Then we leave, go to another house (Mastodon) where people are sane and courteous. We look over at that crazy house, we take a deep breath, and shake our heads, thinking, "Those poor souls are nuts."
It *is* something, Michelangelo.
If you haven't seen the scene yet, keep a lookout for the opening scenes of season 2 episode 7 for an excellent portrayal of the far right radicalization brought on by hate radio/tv.
Of course, spoilers in the link below if you haven't reached s2e7 yet!
https://www.cbr.com/the-boys-best-opening-perfect-depiction-white-male-radicalization/
A symptom, no doubt, linked to the long rise of narcissistic behavior in the USA.
Some aspects of this recipe of this narcissistic pandemic are apparent:
- The hyperindividualism of libertarianism
- Changing demographics in regard to the proportion of whites in the USA (declines ~10% every ~20 years)
- The ascendency of a wildly successful conservative angertainment industrial propaganda complex
... It's the nonintuitive aspects that as a society require identification.
FWIW it was Space Karen's decision to let tfg back on Twitter that broke the proverbial camel's back.
I anticipate that there's another jump in Mastodon's signups as a result.
