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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦's posts Post Back to profile
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Oblomov

@riley @rysiek
fun fact, I jotted some notes about this, sadly in Italian, about a year ago, when I heard one time too many the expression “extraprofit”
wok.oblomov.eu/appunti/extrapr
(Looks like I'll have to work on an English version!)
This discussion on taxing the rich has much of the similar feeling about those discussions. What we want is a system where you don't need to think of fancy values to define “rich”, you can go simply by statistics on the distribution of wealth, with a fiscal regime >

15 January at 13:59 | Wall-to-wall | Open on sociale.network
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Oblomov

@riley @rysiek that “aims” towards a very tight distribution around the median, and is otherwise progressively more aggressive as you move up from it, and it becomes more aggressive faster the more dispersed and skewed the distribution of wealth is.

15 January at 14:01 | Open on sociale.network
Riley S. Faelan

@oblomov If I point Google Translate at it, will I get the jist of it?

@rysiek

15 January at 14:03 | Open on toot.cat
Oblomov

@riley @rysiek I tried the builtin translation feature of Firefox and it seemed … tolerable. Google Translate also seems to match close enough.

15 January at 14:10 | Open on sociale.network
Riley S. Faelan

@oblomov My current hunch is, the primary problem of socioeconomic stratification, the one most important to neutralise and prevent, is development of a sort of 'monetary event horizon', with people on either side of it having near-zero probability of ever finding themselves on the either side. To that end, I'd argue that it's important to review the sort of schemes zillionaires use to poverty-proof themselves, and convert them into something that could poverty-proof everybody. As a part of it, I believe that broader public awareness of zillionaires' schemes of defence against risk of poverty could help neutralise a whole bunch of pro-poverty-enforcement talking points.

@rysiek

@oblomov My current hunch is, the primary problem of socioeconomic stratification, the one most important to neutralise and prevent, is development of a sort of 'monetary event horizon', with people on either side of it having near-zero probability of ever finding themselves on the either side. To that end, I'd argue that it's important to review the sort of schemes zillionaires use to poverty-proof themselves, and convert them into something that could poverty-proof everybody. As a part of it, I...

15 January at 14:10 | Open on toot.cat
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