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.
Tag: economy
Margins tell everything
Margins are the clearest confession of what a company wants, and Nvidia could cut them and still profit – so nothing but the choice itself stops the market from flooding with builders.
A better measure of economy
Argues GDP and income are poor measures of prosperity and proposes median personally owned, liquidatable wealth as a better indicator of how ordinary people actually live.
In defense of Zoomers
Argues Zoomers are not lazy: older generations upheld a failing status quo, so the young should reject guilt, build personal capital, and demand structural change instead of harder work.
Your AI is shit and useless for a major part of the population
Claims expensive AI pricing confines frontier models to businesses and the wealthy, since employers capture productivity gains while personal life gets the weaker cheap models, and argues open-weight inference is the fair alternative.
Should China exist?
Contends China remains valuable as an alternative to a Western monopoly, offering payment rails, manufacturing, and infrastructure without conditions, and that attacking it harms global prosperity more than its authoritarianism does.
Paywall journalism is not a real journalism
Argues that news behind a paywall is not journalism but a for-profit product, and proposes financially independent, transparently funded media as the only way to preserve open public access.
Libertarian left does not exist
Argues libertarian left is structurally impossible, since left economics requires state coercion that breeds bureaucracy, leaving only the libertarian right able to protect liberty through a free market.
All socialism-likes are inherently nationalistic
Argues that all socialist and welfare-state systems require locking citizens in through taxes, pensions, and capital controls, while markets assume freedom of movement and treat people as free agents who choose where to live and invest.
Universal income or universal leash?
UBI is a terrible idea unless it is absolutely unconditional – same sum for every citizen with no behavioral conditions – because the moment survival money depends on behavior it becomes a universal control mechanism. Here I show that universal and unconditional – would be very hard in practice.