Windfall tax: doing that wrong way
A windfall tax aimed straight at the treasury punishes nobody and fixes nothing, because the failure was in the market – the money would do more sent back into the market, or just stored in a fund.
A windfall tax aimed straight at the treasury punishes nobody and fixes nothing, because the failure was in the market – the money would do more sent back into the market, or just stored in a fund.
Shows how record labels killed and absorbed the first generation of music-generation services, then argues for models that never train on copyrighted works – reference albums supplied at inference time, open training data, and judge models built from slop and human ratings instead.
Argues immigrants only threaten democracies that lack strong constitutional rights protections, contrasting US assimilation with European preferential treatment, which it says teaches newcomers to demand privileges.
Defines a government’s proper purpose as expanding citizens’ personal possibilities, arguing that restrictions framed as being for your own good or the collective benefit are a scam and that rights should never be traded for access.
The author argues European regulators unjustly block driver-assist features like Tesla FSD, claiming road safety comes from good infrastructure and driver responsibility, not bureaucratic permission, leaving Europeans less free than poorer countries.
Argues that legal marriage is an inflexible all-or-nothing contract and should be replaced by customizable modular trust agreements that delegate specific rights, duties, and guardianship case by case with minimal state involvement.