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I don’t say this often, but I think this is the most important thing I’ve published in some time. Watch it as a video essay or read it here: rutgerbregman.substack.com/p/an-inconve...
I honestly think the next 5-10 years could be some of the wildest in human history. And the people who should be sounding the alarm (the journalists, the academics, the "In this House We Believe Science Is Real" crowd) are in denial.
I've finally caved, I'm starting a Substack. Field notes from inside my new career!
This sounds nice, but it's a great way to undermine the welfare state.
When the middle class has skin in the game, they defend the system. When welfare is 'just for the poor', it becomes a poor program: stigmatized, underfunded, easy to gut.
That's why billionaires keep pushing this idea.
The real scandal isn't that this nurse pays $12k.
It's that Jeff Bezos pays $0.
Billionaires pay about half as much in taxes as everyone else. Why? Better lobbyists.
But history shows we can win this fight. Same arguments were made against income tax, democracy still prevailed.
It can again. Excited to team up with @gabrielzucman.bsky.social to make sure it does.
True. 2 × $0 still = $0.
Twenty years ago, climate denial was a problem of the right. Today, AI denial is a problem of the left, and the consequences could be even more disastrous.
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"Why is a nurse in Queens who makes $75,000 a year paying more than $1,000 a month in taxes?" Bezos said Wednesday morning on CNBC. "That's $1,000 that could help with rent, or groceries, or anything."
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"Why is a nurse in Queens who makes $75,000 a year paying more than $1,000 a month in taxes?" Bezos said Wednesday morning on CNBC. "That's $1,000 that could help with rent, or groceries, or anything."
