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The often fund shared resources in a housing development - like pools, parks, etc. - the things that a government would normally fund if we hadn't killed all that funding after civil rights laws passed.

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Dave Bloom @thedave42.bsky.social · 20h

Yep. HOA's - which have legal agreements you're required to sign in order to buy the house that include the ability to foreclose on your house - are one of the many legal means that replaced red-zoning to keep your neighborhood whit... uh... I mean... to live around people who share your values.

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Dave Bloom @thedave42.bsky.social · 20h

This sounds so much like an Onion headline.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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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Dave Bloom @thedave42.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

That’s a really well preserved dog

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Dave Bloom @thedave42.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Flying a plane without a license?

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Dave Bloom @thedave42.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Me: FUCK! You're going to break something! STOP STOP STOP! 3D Printer: Let me just complete this instruction to break something before stopping...

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Dave Bloom @thedave42.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I have reached the age where solicitations for charitable donations have switched from “donate now” to “how about leaving us some money when you die?”

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Dave Bloom @thedave42.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

At a glance this looks like they just launched the biggest fucking bottle cap ever.

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Dave Bloom @thedave42.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

You should have a Patreon tier that includes sponsoring your rallycross team.

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Dave Bloom @thedave42.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

My dyslexia: what does a Windows file system have to do with childcare?

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Dave Bloom @thedave42.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

#train ooo. Have no idea what this is but it’s in the NYC subway. Maybe repair?

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Dave Bloom @thedave42.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is a place where every day you wake up, you could experience everything from a plane crashing into our Trade Center to a person who is celebrating being flooded out of their basement apartment

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Dave Bloom @thedave42.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Christopher Nolan’s next movie.

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Dave Bloom @thedave42.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

What should I take my college bound son to see in NYC while we’re here?

A view of New York’s Grand Central terminal and ceiling

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Dave Bloom @thedave42.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

What advice would you give to someone who wants to teach high school history and is starting college this year?

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Dave Bloom @thedave42.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

“Robespierre was right.”?

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Dave Bloom @thedave42.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This is getting humiliating

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Dave Bloom @thedave42.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I mean, they've got to learn how to defend themselves against the police, and shotguns are easy to aim

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Dave Bloom @thedave42.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Is… is that Iguanadon doing the Vulcan neck pinch?

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Dave Bloom @thedave42.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Have your tried the rubber duck mode? turn on experimental in copilot cli and ask it to critique its work. It’ll automatically cross check against its output against another model.

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Dave Bloom @thedave42.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Put some dumbass in charge to say the right thing for 1/2 their term until they’re forced out with some gigantic golden parachute? I think they’ve got running Govt like a business pretty down pat.

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Dave Bloom @thedave42.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Oh sweet, an episode about planes to listen to on my flight...

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Dave Bloom @thedave42.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Every Nazi had their good Jews.

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Dave Bloom @thedave42.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Oh no, I really didn’t need to learn about the London Necropolis Railway when designing the scenery of my first model railroad… Does anyone make an n-scale LSWR M7?

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Dave Bloom @thedave42.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

"sometimes essential services should lose money to improve society and spur more economic activity" Yes! This! So much This!

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Dave Bloom @thedave42.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

People are so obsessed with vulture capitalism they’ve lost the thread. The purpose of isn’t to make a good thing - it’s to make a thing that threatens one of the oligopoly’s market share. AI is a million monkeys and you’re waiting for it to turn out something good enough to get you bought.

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Dave Bloom @thedave42.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

That was a pretty posh sushi place if I remember correctly…

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Dave Bloom @thedave42.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

The bloodboys are almost ready. Plan immortal troll is a go…

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Dave Bloom @thedave42.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

It’s so strange that when you’re rich the dumbest shit that comes out of your mouth is treated like some well thought out policy…

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Dave Bloom @thedave42.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

I thought he bought citizenship in New Zealand

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Dave Bloom @thedave42.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I really enjoy your writing and have learned quite a bit about cars and their history from it.

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Dave Bloom @thedave42.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I am so thankful to @nogodsnomayors.com for informing me about the home town of Pavarotti constructing an ice skating rink around his new statue so he now looks like the happiest man in Cocytus. www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

Pavarotti statue frozen knee-deep in ice rink strikes wrong note in Italy

The opera legend's widow said the town had made an "absurd decision" after it also encouraged skaters to high five the statue.

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Dave Bloom @thedave42.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

I have a suggestion for the Democratic party’s next slogan…

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Dave Bloom @thedave42.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

We watch the Sky adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather…

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Dave Bloom @thedave42.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I’m going to need a bigger lathe…

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Dave Bloom @thedave42.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Frankly speaking there needs to be a reckoning, and people need to be held accountable. And we need to make changes so it can’t happen again. That’s what we should be running on.

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Dave Bloom @thedave42.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

It’s not a good message because they’re still trying to run the last election. The times have changed. We have to address the crimes of this administration before we can just return to normal.

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