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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 8h

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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David T. Marchand @davidmarchand.bsky.social · 20h

These days I find Reagan way scarier which explains the other typo.

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David T. Marchand @davidmarchand.bsky.social · 21h

I'm very late to the party, but the first piece of media that scared me was page 71 from Transilvania Express by Pablo de Santis. It's a very introductory compendium of monsters from pop culture. I liked it but this pic of Reagan from The Exorcist terrified me. I knew the page and always slipped it.

A black and white picture of Reagan MacNeil, the girl from The Exorcist, under a paragraph of text in Spanish describing her

The cover of the book Transilvania Express bu Pablo de Santis, featuring a cartoon vampire over a white background

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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The main thing to understand about descriptivist linguistics is that Frankenstein is the monster

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

all the money in the world, and the billionaires cannot buy the ability to tell a single funny joke, to have a spark of talent in the arts, to hold a single original idea. they know this and it kills them

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Rodrigo Alem FernánDeath 🎃 @rodf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I can't believe it took this long... It was so unbelievably obvious that screens do NOT work at all in this context.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

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David T. Marchand @davidmarchand.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I once asked this particular Bruno Dias about this, but he said he had no idea Batman was called Bruno Díaz in some Spanish-speaking countries.

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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increpare @increpare.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

www.bfxr.net BFXR major update. I need to spend a *lot* more time with the presets of the instruments, but I was so immediately sold by the Mixfxr tool (that just overlaps two existing synths) that I had to put it live RIGHT AWAY. Try it out!

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 03/10/2026

I don't think LLM-based software systems are like homeopathy in the sense that they don't work at all; they're more like cars, in the sense that they do do the things they're meant to do but those things are not generally good for society.

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Judith Asilos @judithasilos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Stanley Parable's fanart. Made for yesterday's event at Destello Bar ✨ #stanleyparable #stanleyparablefanart #fanart #painting

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 26/09/2026

Have I played “Control Resonant”? Sorry…I’m too busy reading the story of a man who “Controls Rocinante”…that’s right, Miguel Cervantes’ immortal tale “Don Quixote de La Mancha”. So you enjoy your strange “Federal Bureau”…I’ll be delighting in the adventures of Sancho Panza and his “Friendly Burro”

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Kenney @kenney.nl · 26/09/2026

A lot of new stuff incoming! I decided to make it all free because I love you all. 💞

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Alan Hazelden @alanhazelden.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

However, the game doesn’t have any way to view any credits in-game until you reach an ending. I don’t consider this to be an appropriate level of crediting for either the creators of the original games or the talented members of the Thekla team, and it doesn’t meet industry standards.

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 15/10/2025

WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you

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David T. Marchand @davidmarchand.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This made me think of the Juegos Rancheros Austin community, and now I've realized I could actually call CYOAs "juegos brancheros" in Spanish-speaking gamedev circles and folks would immediately get what I'm talking about.

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Yarn Spinner @ MIGW @yarnspinner.dev · 18/09/2026

starting an interactive narrative breakfast club called Huevos Brancheros

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Amelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️‍⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 17/09/2026

Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”

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brendan mordheim @brendanmcleod.dev · 06/08/2026

I used the power of the One Ring. I recognize that it's evil, and I expect a lot of people to be mad at me for using it. Sorry! However, I plan to continue using it. Here's why: (1/62)

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Kenney @kenney.nl · 14/09/2026

I feel it's important to share this again. The internet is so hostile toward creators nowadays. I've seen people have their work stolen, and no longer feel comfortable sharing their creations. We can do better. Let's be supportive to the people that make this a better place! 💞

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

oh huh the thumbnail crops off the words here are the words see the joke is that elizabeth holmes mouse ate nathan's cheese and is lying about it in a way that is unnerving

It is a cartoon mouse, like Jerry from Tom and Jerry, shaped like a wedge of cheese presumably because it has eaten a wedge of cheese. The mouse has Elizabeth Holmes' face. The mouse is saying "Why would I deceive you? There's no reason for me to do that."

Nathan Fielder, looking into a fridge where the mouse has eaten a cheese, says skeptically "Okay. Alright."

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Thinky Games @thinkygames.com · 10/09/2026

Season 4 of Thinky Dailies starts September 15th!! thinkygames.com/dail...

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 11/09/2026

bad news everyone. i wrote a program in qbasic that was just 10 KILL ALL HUMANS 20 GOTO 10 which means we are all going to die. does anyone want to give me 7 billion dollars

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Rebecca Gelernter @nearbirdstudios.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Silvery-cheeked Hornbill, who was honking every eight seconds 🪶🐡

Male hornbill with a big, fancy casque. His plumage is mostly black with silver-tipped head feathers and auriculars, and he has a shaggy crest. He looks to the right with his head angled down. His casque doubles the height of his beak and is lighter in color. All that facial keratin is richly textured and grooved.

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Judith Asilos @judithasilos.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"Selfie con Moco", el videoclip animado de la canción de @davidmarchand.bsky.social 🌺

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KO_OP: 🪐 Wishlist Young Suns on Steam! @ko-op.com · 10/09/2026

An important update from KO_OP.

With great sadness and respect, over the next few months KO_OP will be saying goodbye to 13 members of our team. This decision was made to ensure the survival of the studio, and we deeply regret its necessity and the negative impact on our colleagues’ lives.

KO_OP has been making games for nearly a decade and a half, and our project funding has primarily come from publishers and platform partners. The games funding landscape has changed radically over the last few years, and unlike previous project cycles, this time we have been unable to secure funding for new projects while developing our current engagements.

As with all our company's operational decisions, this one was made democratically, and was motivated by the survival of the studio rather than maximizing profits. Our members are regularly updated on our cash flow situation, and were made aware of this upcoming shortfall well in advance. Membership then appointed a group to plan for this eventuality, and ratified their recommendations. Team leads and our elected executives will also be impacted by these reductions. We believe this level of transparency and accountability ought to be a minimum requirement for all organizations.

Young Suns will be reaching new platforms, with new content and features. We're all tremendously proud of it, and hope it will find its audience. Our bylaws ensure that any profits from Young Suns will still be shared with impacted team members. Our goal now is to develop new game concepts and prototypes while continuing to support Young Suns. In the event that we secure funding in the coming months, our intent is to rehire as many of our colleagues as possible.

In the coming days we will be sharing a list of impacted workers in the hopes of helping them find new work. We thank you for your support.

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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The AI people also use AI to write their posts which is why their posts are stupid and weird

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David T. Marchand @davidmarchand.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“Selfie con moco” es una canción sobre la inteligencia artificial. 2da voz grabada por separado por @judithasilos.bsky.social

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

me: hey, aren't you jack reacher? reacher: poster. mid-tier, by the look of it. you were on twitter until it became x. now you're just on one of the knockoffs, most likely bluesky, because you don't have the self-confidence for instagram or tiktok. me: ok t— reacher: peaked in the buzzfeed era.

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Keifer @dannyvegito.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

[guy who can’t fully remember that Gramsci quote] it’s Monster Time

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itch.io @itch.io · 04/09/2026

What's this?! You can now sort AND filter projects on your dashboard? (And the "New project" button is on top) 😅

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Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 04/09/2026

Future? No Thanks! IS OUT NOW ON STEAM An open-world comedy adventure about workable utopias, the twilight of patriarchy, revolution, and the horrifying possibility that the younger generations might be right. 💀 Windows + Mac 💀 6+ hours of gameplay 💀 20% off at launch futurenothanks.com

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Anthony Clark @nedroid.com · 02/09/2026

Hey Weird, it’s Marvin! Your cousin, “Marvin” Al?

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David T. Marchand @davidmarchand.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Yeah the subscription model's always a hard sell. But I can confirm C3 is excellent, tons of quality of life improvements over C2. The Tween behavior alone is worth it I feel.

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Thought Slime’s monster @slimemildred.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Hello, I recently came across your content, I love the way it mixes themes and ideas. Would you be open to a brand collaboration for a new app that teaches children how to smoke?

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