Tech Won’t Save Us. Shrinking Consumption Will

Re:Tech Won’t Save Us. Shrinking Consumption Will by bee_rider on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @11:16PM (#29721791)

Tangential, but is that a conventional use of 'progressive?' I'm more familiar with seeing it used to describe the idea of having a tax rate that increases with higher, well, income most often.

I like the idea of smoothly ramping up taxes over time, in general. It seems to be the most obvious solution to the objection "this will shock the market," and that sort of thing. But due to the lack of a better term, I always want to call it "adiabatic taxation" (stealing the word from physics), but I think this is just a me thing.

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Re:Tech Won’t Save Us. Shrinking Consumption Will by somebodythere on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @11:19PM (#29721811)

You are right, in tax policy "progressive" has a specific meaning, which is to increase with increasing income or consumption. Starting a tax low and increasing it over time would be considered a "phase-in".

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