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Re:Effective altruism is not effective by okintheory on Friday April 16, 2021 @05:18AM (#26831511)
Imagine you could make people give 30 % of their income... almost like a tax... but that would be political, not effective.
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Re:Effective altruism is not effective by Scea91 on Friday April 16, 2021 @06:53AM (#26832263)
In lots of western countries the total tax rate of work (tax wedge) is much more than 30 %.

According to [1] OECD average is 36 %. In my EU country it is 46 %.

[1] https://www.oecd.org/tax/tax-policy/taxing-wages-brochure.pd...

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