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Restating the obvious… @norcalgardenofeden.bsky.social · 1h

Maybe we are really going to destroy another couple percentage points of global distillate capacity, just to make sure we are really doing electrification this time!

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 13h

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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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 12h

maybe it's just my inner old man but I have to be honest and say that I don't think the stealing cars and shooting hookers game has a unique artistic vision you'd deprive yourself of by over-customizing it

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Restating the obvious… @norcalgardenofeden.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

we haven’t actually reached the nadir of this shit show, gotta save some energy to stay awake and ready for the crescendo

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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's quite literally human sacrifice. They continue to cargo cult fascism, because "fake it until you make it" is the only thing they know. They're hoping a ritual public killing will bring their flagging power and legitimacy back, no different from previous sacrifice religions.

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Thinking about how my criminology professor made me read some papers that showed murder rates spiked after well covered state executions

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

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Restating the obvious… @norcalgardenofeden.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

let’s speedrun the end of the death penalty in America via a series of ever escalating cruelties and displays of violence. Could be a silver lining of this fascist cloud?

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 08/10/2026

I feel like OpenAI could do a little bit better job acting like they give any amount of a shit whatsoever about the results they are publishing. They're just like, here, you piggies love this math shit right, here's a million pages of it. Should be mostly right.

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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My Judaica publisher told me rabbis keep filling his Talmud margins so I asked how many margins he has and he said he just goes to print and adds wider margins afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding whitespace to rabbis and then his printer started crying.

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Restating the obvious… @norcalgardenofeden.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

join the continental red brigade or put a big short via market options and ride it to the bottom

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Restating the obvious… @norcalgardenofeden.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This man meets the definition of a neo-Nazi on multiple dimensions and in plain language.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

i've never been a cultural relativist so this is easy for me: the culture of the American Right fucking sucks. they worship malice and mediocrity. they venerate nothing of value.

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Restating the obvious… @norcalgardenofeden.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

After I pop a cork in Sacramento I am absolutely driving into San Francisco for the street party…

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Restating the obvious… @norcalgardenofeden.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If people have 2 computers they are sex pest, 51% of the time.

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Restating the obvious… @norcalgardenofeden.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Fuck Thom Tillis and the book he rode in on.

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Restating the obvious… @norcalgardenofeden.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

What is this fucking garbage…like some sort of Einstein deserves the ovens joke?

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Restating the obvious… @norcalgardenofeden.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is the content I’m looking for on my microblog site of choice.

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Can you imagine how bad it'd be if shit sucked in a way that wasn't generally somewhat funny?

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Restating the obvious… @norcalgardenofeden.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I’m tired of judging people on a curve because they have an asshole parent(s)…yes he is warped by wealth, but I’m tired of that two-step, if the most privileged get a pass on being actualized citizens at birth on top of the regular privilege…c’mon he should be judged more harshly!

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 07/10/2026

Wynn's Law remains undefeated.

Contrapoints saying "They don't want victory, they don't want power, they want to endlessly 'critique' power."

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Restating the obvious… @norcalgardenofeden.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Okay, if a woman can no longer be in public going about her civil business we are cooked…and more cops aren’t going to fix this. they might even make it worse.

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Restating the obvious… @norcalgardenofeden.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Loser! Still sucking Trump’s dick this late in the game?

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"How do you actually use it for irl problems" was always a reductive take on mathematics as an academic discipline, but if it's going to be operated more like an oil refinery, that becomes a pretty useful question

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Restating the obvious… @norcalgardenofeden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That’s why we get extra dessert at the commune, they know our existence is ruined even in utopia, and so we deserve our treats.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The most psychotic possible framing of this archive.is/202609271858...

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Pabst Boo Ronin @pabstblueronin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They will NEVER understand our relationship with the land (parking lot where you buy fentanyl)

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Restating the obvious… @norcalgardenofeden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Maine, where they rub salt in their own wounds.

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

No one, not even presidents, is so thoroughly insulated & flattered. Nine little Romanovs

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Barrista @onbluskysku.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Turns out buying off the hereditary local warrior class to stop beating commoners in the street just makes a fertile ground for fascism a few decades from now. So yeah we can’t let them stay

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Restating the obvious… @norcalgardenofeden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Lord is not with us, it’s just a dumb mother fucker named Uncle Sam.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

you’re half right. these are my clowns, but this still isn’t my circus

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I spend an inordinate amount of time wandering round the house doing Columbo impressions. "Just one last thing, Mrs Dishwasher, there's something that's been bothering me... this spoon right here. Its been through 3 cycles now... it's still not clean. I just don't understand it."

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Restating the obvious… @norcalgardenofeden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I actually think that at a certain point cognitively, some elderly adults just can’t make this change. Israel has had special outsize meaning to many people who otherwise have lived moral and upright lives. Yeah you want to scream at them but pick your spots…

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Restating the obvious… @norcalgardenofeden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

All he has to do is start Sephiroth posting on main, and then I will call him brother.

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

the IRS is so badly funded that the most recent time we actually measured tax evasion was 2016 btw this should be a yearly report! but instead the sum of all federal knowledge regarding the tax gap is like five spreadsheets where half the numbers are derived from decades-old figures

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

that ain't a sine function anymore

Daily Sea Surface temperature chart dating by to 2008 by month. Previous years follow a roughly sinusoidal path. The current year shows an anomalously high temperature that increases monotonically

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