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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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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Love hearing my phone ping at 11 pm so I excitedly burst from my blanket nest to see who wants me this late at night and it’s an email from Jira.

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Aysha 🔜 Cancon @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I still think about the conversation I had with an uber driver Him: so what do you do Me: I’m a video game writer Him: wait, video games? They have writing? What do you write? Me: you know when you open up a game and you see the words? Him: yeah? Me: those

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Ulrik @ullik.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Live on console let's goooooo

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Per-Erik Schulze @pererikschulze.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Breaking. The permit to dump mining waste into the Førde fjord is illegal! 🐟 In an unprecedented, absolutely historic and strong ruling by Norways Supreme Court tonight the Nordic Mining company and the Norwegian Government lost. Environmental NGOs Naturvernforbundet and Natur and Ungdom won.🧵 1/

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Ulrik @ullik.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

After putting in 700h into Bannerlord I am VERY excited about @chroniclesmedieval.bsky.social

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Ulrik @ullik.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

man, Mixtape was.. so good

Screenshot from the game Mixtape. Image depicts a polaroid photograph with three people posing on an old, rusted car.

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Ulrik @ullik.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Huh, now I've seen it all. Gave Road To Vostok a go today since it just entered early access and.. What other game will allow you to loot and use snus, of all things, quickly followed by a very angry man yelling "perkele!" right outside where you're hiding?

A cropped screenshot of a looting screen in the game Road To Vostok. In the image is a consumable item, called snus, which is a tobacco product usually only found in northern Europe.

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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

what people sound like when they say i asked claude

@Nemzsi

thank you black mold. thats a wonderful idea black mold

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Ulrik @ullik.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I really hope this turns out to be incorrect, because I see first-hand how invaluable good localization is, but I'm not holding my breath..

Screenshot of a reddit post, which has been posted on some forums as well.

Almost full text below (exempted some because of text limit).
Hey everyone,
My name is Max H, and I've been working at Warhorse Studios since July 2022 as a Czech>English translator and editor. I primarily worked on KCD2 and its DLCs, including dialogues, quest logs, item names, and various other things, as well as some occasional marketing materials here and there. Simply put, if you've ever played KCD2 in English, you've quite likely seen my work.

Yesterday, March 27th 2026, with no forewarning, I was invited to a meeting and promptly told that, in an effort to "make the company more effective" and "save finances", as of next month, my position at the company would become "obsolete" in favour of using AI for all translations going forward. This came as a huge shock to me, as though the discussion about using AI for translating had frequently come up in the past, something I was always strongly and vocally against, but never to the extent that it might actually cost me my job in the future. It had, of course, crossed my mind many times, but I naively thought my work at WHS was valued enough that I might not be at immediate risk. I feel incredibly betrayed by the management of the company I've come to care about greatly these past almost 4 years, and am heartbroken I won't get to see my friends and colleagues at the office every day.

I want you to know that the growing use of AI greatly affects people in the games industry and many others, and I thought you should know how much the company that makes the games you love value the work of their employees, not to mention the environment.

To any of my now-former colleagues reading this, I wish you all the best, and strongly hope none of you finds yourselves in the same position as me.

To anyone else reading, thanks for making it this far, and if you have any questions, feel free to ask. I'll do my best to answer them if I can.

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Ulrik @ullik.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I genuinely thought these screenshots were a joke at first, but after watching the Digital Foundry video I'm.. kinda stunned? It makes cool, pretty, artistic games look like the AI scam slop ads I get served on youtube.

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Ulrik @ullik.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Mentally preparing myself for social media to collectively drown me in Silksong hype for the next three months

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Ulrik @ullik.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

God, I hope #Battlefield6 is good. Looks somewhat promising so far? 👀

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Edmond Tran @edmondtran.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Hello. About a year and a half ago, some guy called Ralph asked me if I wanted to make a new videogame website. We're launching it today. Maybe you can even visit it if people stop hammering the server for a second.

thisweekinvideogames.com

This Week in Videogames - TWIV

Covering the important things happening in the world of videogames. News, reviews, and insights without ads or filler content.

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N² @antire.al · 15/05/2025

the Marathon alpha released recently and its environments are covered with assets lifted from poster designs i made in 2017. @bungie.net @marathonthegame.bungie.net

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Ulrik @ullik.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Dune: Awakening story trailer is out, aaaaaaaa!! Go watch it, its so good!

youtu.be

Dune: Awakening — Story Trailer

YouTube video by Funcom

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Ulrik @ullik.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Aaand thats STALKER2 completed ! Honestly what a rad, and slightly uncomfortable game. Good job GSC 👏

Main menu screenshot from game STALKER 2. Dark atmosphere, ruined industrial area in the background, with five men sitting around a campfire.

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Ulrik @ullik.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Aaaand that's #Avowed finished! Honestly just a thoroughly and genuinely fun game all the way through! Might be a bit early to call this, but very likely going to be among the best games I play this year Big creds, @obsidian.net .. now maybe I should finally give Pillars of Eternity a go

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Dune: Awakening @duneawakening.com · 20/02/2025

Forge your legend and build your Dune. #DuneAwakening Dune: Awakening launches on PC May 20, 2025. Play the full Character Creator and Benchmark Mode now on Steam: bit.ly/DuneAwakenin... 📺 youtu.be/gl6Wi20fSp0

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Ulrik @ullik.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I was considering doing a civ VII thread of my own, but this summarizes a lot of my feelings. Kinda bummed. Hopefully it grows on me the same way civ VI managed to, and I'll have another civ game to put 1000+ hrs into.

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Disembodied Head Lynch @goatburgler.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Communications platforms like Slack and Teams let you invite people to huddle but not cuddle and I think that says something about society.

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Ulrik @ullik.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

How am I supposed to get any work done when I got this taunting me? #CivVII

Screenshot of a part of Steam Client, with the text "Sid Meier's Civilization VII is now available" and a bit green button below reading "STREAM".

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Ulrik @ullik.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Make boxes for writers.

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Bertie @clert.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Is Funcom's new survival MMO Dune: Awakening any good? It's better than that - it's interesting. As I found out.

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Rebecca McCarthy - Game Writing & Narrative🔜 MCM Comic Con @rebeccamwrites.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Any image of despair can become a narrative design post if you try hard enough.

Show of panicked men with the added caption:
"What do you mean you changed the level? We recorded the dialogue yesterday."

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Ulrik @ullik.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I keep seeing bad Switch 2 puns all over my timeline, and I'm all for it.

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mave @mave.bsky.social · 10/07/2023

As a tall person I cannot offer to reach something on a high shelf for a stranger, yet if they ask me I must oblige. This is the law of the giants

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Paul Atreides in a trance, simultaneously savoring the genetic memory of every single Dorito eaten by humanity’s ancestors

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Ulrik @ullik.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Man.. every time I manage to tear myself away from #League, they pull me back with the cinematics. And there's so much LORE to unpack in this one!!

The League of Legends-character Trundle standing in a cold and barren environment, with his tribe of trolls behind him. He stands alone, in rags, holding a massive club of ice, ready to fight in a duel versus the character Darius.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

We're at the point in the year where I have no idea what day of the week it is and I no longer care. This is freedom, this is the way humans are meant to live

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Me: Narrative design and game writing are related but separate disciplines. You could compare it to architect and builder, both essential but serving separate functions. There are of course overlapping gray areas we can delve into Demon I trapped in a pentagram: Please free me. Send me back to hell

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Ulrik @ullik.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Finally started playing Balatro a few days ago, and it's scarily addictive. Why did nobody warn me?? I'm never gonna be productive again:(

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Ulrik @ullik.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Aaaand Arcane season 2 finished. Sobbed my way through the last three episodes.

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Ulrik @ullik.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Finally finished my playthrough of Frostpunk 2. What a game! Overall happy with the direction they went, expanding on the concept of the first game, instead of "just" making a sequel. [1/4] ! S P O I L E R S below 👇!

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Ulrik @ullik.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Finally got around to Frostpunk2❄️ Feels like there's been a shift from city *building* to city *management*. That tradeoff is massively worth it though, with the increased scale, complexity, politics, and research. And every choice you make still make you feel like shit, so there's that 🥲

media.tenor.com

a group of people are walking through a snowy field in a cave .

Alt: Short snippet from Frostpunk cinematic. A group of people are walking through a snowy wasteland towards a massive metal furnace, shaped like a towering pillar. Then there's a closer image of the furnace itself, igniting.

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Ulrik @ullik.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

#Arcane act 2 has me sobbing and I'm not okay.

A close up image of the character Jinx from the show Arcane, crying into the shoulder of the character Vi.

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Ulrik @ullik.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Arcane season 2 was a much needed distraction from everything else this week, thank fuck

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Ulrik @ullik.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Played more Witchfire for the first time since it launched into ea a year ago. Man that game feels like no other. I've never felt so in control and responsible for every achievement (and mistake) that happens in a game. (also arguably my favorite gun feel ever by this point👀)

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Wes Fenlon @wes.readonlymemo.com · 07/02/2024

At PC Gamer we've been talking about how to convey the scale of 16,000+ game devs being laid off in a year, without forgetting that number represents individual people with their own stories. This is our first attempt: 16,000 dots, alongside voices of those affected. www.pcgamer.com/the-impact-o...

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Ulrik @ullik.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

Finally got around to playing A Short Hike. What a fantastic, lovely little game.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 24/12/2023

Take a moment to remember that the star at the top of your Christmas tree represents a miraculous light in the skies near Betlehem. That tonight, the only lights in the skies of Betlehem are advanced Israeli fighter jets dropping 2000-pound bombs on babies 70 kilometers away.

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