• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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    1 month ago

    They’ll need to define new sins. They proposed practical ones, with carbon taxes and the like, but the big sinners are far too powerful and well-connected, so it’ll have to be something smaller like mobile games or flavoured coffee.

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      1 month ago

      No the point is to make money and look righteous while doing so.

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    1 month ago

    If they need more taxes to reduce deficits without reducing spending they should look to where wealth is most hoarded and concentrated in society, but it’s the economist.