https://www.jdporter.org/ Literature/DH scholar, Price Lab at UPenn | I work on text mining, canons, literature and philosophy, and so on | Writing in PMLA, Synthese, The Atlantic, Cultural Analytics, the Stanford Literary Lab pamphlet series, etc
J.D. Porter
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Idk what’s going to happen tonight, but I was rooting for the Phillies in the 2022 World Series when Sam Alito decided to attend a game, so I know that karma is real
When a team invites a dictator to the game it’s good if they lose, is my view
I think if every well-informed person in the country can understand jokes about your last four mayors, you have to accept that pretty much anyone who moves to your city can quickly become a "true" citizen of it. Hegemony facilitates assimilation.
The scale and dispersion of Knicks fans emerging like cicadas for their team’s once-per quarter-century title run shows us just how much pain James Dolan causes almost every year
Even if Bezos never made another dollar, you could tax him at that rate for 85 years, and he'd still be a billionaire.
Doubling his taxes *is* bad policy, but only because we ought to take back much, much more.
Here's the math:
Warren tax = 0 on first $50m + 2% on next $950m + 6% on the rest
Bezos is so rich (net worth ~$275b) that only the last number matters, and it comes about to about $16.4b.
There are 3.8m teachers in the US, making on average $74k/yr.
16.4b / 3.8m = ~$4.3k
4.3k / 74k = 5.8%
This is obvious horseshit, but I think it's useful to put numbers to this stuff sometimes.
The Warren wealth tax would raise $16.5b from Bezos alone in the first year, which amounts to $4k for every teacher in the US, roughly a 6% pay raise on average.
Bet that *would* help that teacher in Queens!
Much more difficult to list the 100 worst novels of all time
