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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 12h

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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BlumineOnion 🧅 @blumineonion.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The "yuri is male gaze" debate becomes gut-bustingly hilarious once you realize that, more often than not, the genre is created by female mangaka sitting at their desks like:

From the afterword of I Love You So Much, I Hate You by Yuni

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Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 13h

"The horrifying theme of this game may be inappropriate for young children...and cowards." - warning on the box of the TG-16 version of Splatterhouse (Personally, I love how this game makes satire about the late '80s primordial era of edgelordism redundant.)

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Malin Ryden @malinryden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The reviews are more eloquent about why you should get this than I can ever be... (also 34% off!) store.steampowered.com/app/1343810/...

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Save 34% on Fallen Hero: Retribution on Steam

So you're a villain now? Let's see if you survive the experience.

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Wonky @wonkysq.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Excellent post with specific ideas for taking action. "an entire generation has grown up not realizing how extreme it is that their very language is being chosen for them by platforms run by people who hate that generation’s ability to express itself, and who hate the things it has to say."

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 06/10/2026

I know you all hate Instagram but the Alaska Sealife Center has an orphan baby walrus 🥹

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

tell me the vibe you are seeking and i will recommend you a gay romance novel (pls note if trashy is ok)

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Malin Ryden @malinryden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Finished a weekly 4 year DnD campaign (lvl20, we turned into gods), a year long DnD campaign (Witchlight, it was a delight), and found out my parents are selling their house due to age and upkeep all within one week. I feel slightly adrift...

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Seán Ferrick @seanferrick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was tempted to pirate HP, curiosity and all that. But @jessiegender.bsky.social is right - think of the amount of times HBO commented on GOT leaks and downloads, just as an example. They DO track these things, and even that drives interest. Let this show die. Trans people deserve better.

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VERTICAL📼BLANKING📺INTERVAL @vertiblank.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A Hark! A Vagrant classic

Watson: Oooh, what’s that you’ve got?
Franklin: My final report
Watson: Little Rosie Franklin’s research! I bet it’s something!
Franklin: ROSALIND.
Crick: Oh, that’s a big name
W: You’re getting fancy on us! Tell me—
F: Ah. I love this game.
W: Is it a scientific breakthrough in feelings?
F: Well, I suppose I have to go into hysterics or have a baby somewhere, good day gentlemen
W: GO, GO
[W and C slip a look at F’s notes]
C: Nice
W: Quit hogging

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There are some pieces of paleoart that to my eye are so fantastic that I regularly come back to them to just stare and marvel them. Peter Trusler has made many such pictures but these 3 particular ones are just of such exquisite quality that they take my breath away every time.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 04/10/2026

Got interviewed by one of the largest Swedish newspapers and they led with the best headline/photo (translates to “it’s easier to see an angry man than the truth”) www.svd.se/a/pB7E0G/ed-...

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”Lättare att se en arg man än sanningen”

Han har kallats galen, bett en AI-vd att hålla käften – och i åratal varnat för en börskrasch. Nu har den högljudda outsidern tagit klivet in i finrummen. Ändå känner sig Ed Zitron fortfarande behandl...

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Revenge of Princesscore @princessrevenge.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

basically all discourse on transition is this one exchange and for some reason we have to keep doing it

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 01/10/2026

just found out a thing photoshop has been doing and driving me insane for 2 years that i thought was something wrong with my computer was a FEATURE OF THE PROGRAM. Tim Adobe i will find you in this life or the next and Hurt you

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Frank&Stein @brandtandstein.com · 30/09/2026

Hey, in anticipation of the upcoming US release of Worst Man, if any comics pro friends want to read it, reply to this post! We’d be delighted to share it with you

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Malin Ryden @malinryden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Would be nice to move to my standing desk to write, but the cat is asleep on the cord, and I don't want to commit such a cruel crime as to move him.

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Frank&Stein @brandtandstein.com · 30/09/2026

EXCITING TIMES AFOOT

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Malin Ryden @malinryden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thank you! I've tried my best...

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Malin Ryden @malinryden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So, did a little lore excerpt from an upcoming Fallen Hero project, up on my Patreon! I am so bloody grateful for everyone supporting me! www.patreon.com/malinryden/p...

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What's In a Name? | Malin Ryden

So, another excerpt of the upcoming unnamed Los Diablos sourcebook/interview book by Mia Ochoa. CJ is up to 220 000 words now I think, and e

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Malin Ryden @malinryden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Been a lot happening real life lately. Not good. Not bad. Just... a lot. Still not sure how to feel about it, but feelings are happening.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

To celebrate Spooky Season, let's learn why this vampire bat is running on a treadmill. The three species of vampire bats are the only known mammals to be obligate hemophages: 100% of their calories come from blood. The Common Vampire Bat (Desmodus rotundus) prefers mammals... (📷: Giulia Rossi)

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Malin Ryden @malinryden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Bad night of nightmares, but at least that meant I could do a lot of the boring bookkeeping stuff that needed to be done because I can't be creative. Brain has been so weird lately, the shifting seasons mess me up.

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Morning, bitches! Many of the lessons I've learned in tabletop roleplaying games (#TTRPG) are from the years I put in making them full time (from 90 or so, until 2001). SO much has changed since then, though many pros act as if it has not changed at all. It's a completely different business now.

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Joan Braun @joanfbraun.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Cats!! As a university student, I worked night shift in a group home. We had a cat. I fed him every morning before leaving at the end of my shift. Then I discovered that the day staff were feeding him. Turned out that the neighbours on both sides were also feeding him! Told everyone he was hungry.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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SANTA CLAUS @santaclausalaska.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A salient observation: “The elite meticulously engineer culture wars so the starving peasants violently butcher each other over trivial, fabricated differences. As long as the slaves are completely soaked in each other’s blood, the master’s castle remains completely untouched.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson

A sepia-toned photo of a seated and bespectacled Hunter S. Thompson, holding a cigarette in one hand:

“The elite meticulously engineer culture wars so the starving peasants violently butcher each other over trivial, fabricated differences. As long as the slaves are completely soaked in each other’s blood, the master’s castle remains completely untouched.”
~ Hunter S. Thompson

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

been thinkin about how robots are gonna kill us

Scratchy drawing of a two panel comic.
Panel 1:
Titled:“How we thought robots would kill us”
A robot shoots a human to death with a gun. It screams “Die flesh sack”

Panel 2:
Titled “How robots will actually kill us”
A MediBot is injecting something into a humans arm. The bot says “Whooops. I injected you with cancer instead of insulin. That’s on me”

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

apartheid is not theoretical or just walls and borders, which is something I think people do struggle to understand it's taking a whole society and breaking it down into people who have freedom and people who are controlled to varying degrees in every aspect of their daily lives

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is very funny. There’s also nothing the scandis love more than making an English language thing like this.

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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 16/09/2026

Use it or lose it. Then teach a kid how to use it. Repeat.

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Mike MacFerrin @icesheetmike.myatproto.social · 15/09/2026

@gregpak.net had a pretty good writeup here that explains it better than I just did. The article’s about a year old and some bits are outdated (some of the features he describes as “coming soon” are live now, etc) but the basic rationale here holds.

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How and why I moved from a Bluesky server to a Blacksky server - gregpak.net

Since Twitter turned into a fascist hellhole under Elon Musk, Bluesky has become my favorite social media site. But Bluesky has its own issues, primarily cen...

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Spökulv @spookulv.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In Sweden, neoliberalism has fostered regular working people that open corruption and crimes are fine as long it is financial in some way. It's actually shocking learning how many are just okay with stealing savings for example, since a fucker convicted for that is now a money influencer

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Humans are reading your ChatGPT chats. Just like humans are behind your food delivery robots and various other applications of automated technology. Usually underpaid humans in other countries.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026

RIP to the guy who convinced us all that Tina Turner was tall

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Malin Ryden @malinryden.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

One final path (2_4) to add, it feels so nice to tie up loose ends and bring everything together.

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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 14/09/2026

Good morning from Sweden 🇸🇪 where people have suffered the biggest electoral nail biter that I can remember 🧵

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Malin Ryden @malinryden.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Undrar hur det är för S? Här gick dom lokalt mkt bättre, vore intressant att se om det gäller totalt för riket.

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Malin Ryden @malinryden.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Jobbat helad dagen, lagat mat, pillat med blommorna, och ska titta på film ikväll. Bara kollar bluesky medan potatisen kokar... (har massiv valångest efter förra valet)

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Malin Ryden @malinryden.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Inte titta på nyheter föränn imorgon

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Malin Ryden @malinryden.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#TTRPG GM/players, your resumé using only 3 games/systems: Currently playing/most excited about: My own Draw Steel hack. Having great fun tinkering with it. Comfort game: RuneQuest, no matter what edition. Toxic relationship: 5e. So many campaigns I've been in run it (hacked). Still fun sadly.

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Malin Ryden @malinryden.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Time to go offline until the election is over

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