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Re:Modeling a Wealth Tax by msoad on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @10:18AM (#24198831)
This is pg's privilege to be able to write such a shallow article and get this much attention. There has been so many studies on this topic. There are places with Wealth Tax. France experimented with it and kind of failed. Switzerland has Wealth Tax. None of that was mentioned. Just a 4th grader math and a basic HTML table. God damn it I wish I was VC. Anything I say would be gold. This is pure @VCBrags material
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Re:Modeling a Wealth Tax by doukdouk on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @11:17AM (#24199692)
> I actually worry a lot that as I get "popular" I'll be able to get away with saying stupider stuff than I would have dared say before. This sort of thing happens to a lot of people, and I would really like to avoid it

Paul Graham, as quoted in Maciej Cegłowski's blog post "Dabblers and blowhards"

- https://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm

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Re:Modeling a Wealth Tax by O_H_E on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @12:00PM (#24200298)
Ouch, that hurt. I hope he can see himself in a mirror soon.
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