Norwegian wealth tax results in 40% loss in tax revenue as super rich flee the country:
"Norwegian Business School professor emeritus Ole Gjems-Onstad estimated that the wealthy Norwegians took with them a total fortune of $54 billion when they left. This means that the wealth tax, which was projected to increase revenue by nearly $150 million annually, will result in about 40 percent less revenue than it currently generates. Luca Dellanna, a management advisor and author, points out that Norway collected about $1.46 billion on its wealth tax in 2019. But the exodus of the wealthy will result in an estimated $594 million in lost revenue."
https://www.aier.org/article/norways-wealth-tax-is-backfiring-are-americans-paying-attention/
keywords: taxation
California says it lost $2 billion in state income taxes from earners leaving
"California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office says the state lost approximately $2.3 billion in state personal income taxes due to outmigration in the 2022-2023 fiscal year. With Newsom claiming the state's population grew in 2023, the net decrease in taxpayers and taxpayer dependents for fiscal year 2022-2023 suggests California could be losing productive individuals and their families as it gains non-tax-filers."
keywords: taxation
A compendium of UK censorship
https://x.com/aaronsibarium/status/1825977695361994875
keywords: censorship
Marginal Revolution's Alex Tabarrok - Unpacking the Decline of U.S. Economic Dynamism
Alex Tabarrok (@MarginalRevolutionUniversity ) is a professor of economics at George Mason University and the co-author of Marginal Revolution, one of the most popular and long-running blogs on the internet. He's also the founder of Marginal Revolution University.
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00:00 Alex Tabarrok - Marginal Revolution/George Mason University
00:35 US economic decline
08:54 Economic effects of regulation
16:37 Side hustles
22:25 Reshoring
22:20 Operation Warp Speed
33:20 Crime wave analysis
42:24 Swedish lottery winners
50:49 AI winners & losers
1:01:56 A conspiracy theory Alex believes
1:03:38 Alex’s take for common bad advice
Guest Socials:
Twitter: / atabarrok
Site:
https://alextabarrok.com/
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Host Auren Hoffman Socials:
Twitter: / auren
Substack: https://substack.com/@auren
Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant (
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)
keywords: doomerism, podcast
Michael Shermer with Michael Shellenberger—Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world’s last unprotected redwoods. He co-created the predecessor to today’s Green New Deal. And he led a successful effort by climate scientists and activists to keep nuclear plants operating, preventing a spike of emissions. But in 2019, as some claimed “billions of people are going to die,” contributing to rising anxiety, including among adolescents, Shellenberger decided that, as a lifelong environmental activist, leading energy expert, and father of a teenage daughter, he needed to speak out to separate science from fiction. His conclusion: “Climate change is real but it’s not the end of the world. It is not even our most serious environmental problem.”
Despite decades of news media attention, many remain ignorant of basic facts. Carbon emissions peaked and have been declining in most developed nations for over a decade. Deaths from extreme weather, even in poor nations, declined 80 percent over the last four decades. And the risk of Earth warming to very high temperatures is increasingly unlikely thanks to slowing population growth and abundant natural gas. Curiously, the people who are the most alarmist about the problems also tend to oppose the obvious solutions. Shermer and Shellenberger also discuss:
what’s really behind the rise of apocalyptic environmentalism,
the powerful financial interests in environmentalism,
the desire for status and power among environmentalists, along with the all-too human propensity to moralize and tell other people what to do,
Shellenberger’s hypothesis that environmentalism is a faux religion primarily followed by secular people searching for transcendence,
Environmental Humanism as a replacement worldview,
the problems and shortcomings of climate computer models,
how much warmer it’s going to get and what the consequences of that warming will be, and what we do about it? (hint: nuclear),
myths about nuclear power and why people fear it,
renewables, solar, wind, geothermal, and why they are not nearly as efficient as nuclear,
the Amazon: Are the Earth’s lungs burning?
plastic straws, recycling, electric cars, and other things,
Are we in a Sixth Extinction?
How have sweatshops saved the planet?
How have technology and capitalism saved the whales?
meat eating, Temple Grandin, and happy farms vs. factory farms,
the myth of natural: what is natural is good, non-natural is bad,
why environmentalism is the dominant secular religion of the educated, upper-middle-class elite in the most developed nations, with good guys and bad guys, heroes and villains, and
Environmentalism as Calvinism — Richard Rhodes: “In the sense that the world is an evil place and it would be better if it were destroyed and turned back over to the natural kingdom.”
Michael Shellenberger is a Time magazine “Hero of the Environment”; the winner of the 2008 Green Book Award from the Stevens Institute of Technology’s Center for Science Writings; and an invited expert reviewer of the next Assessment Report for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He has written on energy and the environment for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Nature Energy, and other publications for two decades. He is the founder and president of Environmental Progress, an independent, nonpartisan research organization based in Berkeley, California.
This dialogue was recorded on July 22, 2020 as part of the Science Salon Podcast series hosted by Michael Shermer and presented by The Skeptics Society, in California.
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keywords: doomerism, climate-change, podcast
Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Dispositions of Self-Identified Libertarians
Libertarians are an increasingly prominent ideological group in U.S. politics, yet they have been largely unstudied. Across 16 measures in a large web-based sample that included 11,994 self-identified libertarians, we sought to understand the moral and psychological characteristics of self-described libertarians. Based on an intuitionist view of moral judgment, we focused on the underlying affective and cognitive dispositions that accompany this unique worldview. Compared to self-identified liberals and conservatives, libertarians showed
stronger endorsement of individual liberty as their foremost guiding principle, and weaker endorsement of all other moral principles;
a relatively cerebral as opposed to emotional cognitive
style;lower interdependence and social relatedness.
As predicted by intuitionist theories concerning the origins of moral reasoning, libertarian values showed convergent relationships with libertarian emotional dispositions and social preferences. Our findings add to a growing recognition of the role of personality differences iAlex Tabarrok (@MarginalRevolutionUniversity ) is a professor of economics at George Mason University and the co-author of Marginal Revolution, one of the most popular and long-running blogs on the internet. He's also the founder of Marginal Revolution University.
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00:00 Alex Tabarrok - Marginal Revolution/George Mason University
00:35 US economic decline
08:54 Economic effects of regulation
16:37 Side hustles
22:25 Reshoring
22:20 Operation Warp Speed
33:20 Crime wave analysis
42:24 Swedish lottery winners
50:49 AI winners & losers
1:01:56 A conspiracy theory Alex believes
1:03:38 Alex’s take for common bad advice
Guest Socials:
Twitter: / atabarrok
Site:
https://alextabarrok.com/
World of DaaS:
https://www.worldofdaas.com/
Follow / worldofdaas
Host Auren Hoffman Socials:
Twitter: / auren
Substack: https://substack.com/@auren
Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant (
https://thepodcastconsultant.com)n
the organization of political attitudes.
Citation: Iyer R, Koleva S, Graham J, Ditto P, Haidt J (2012) Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Dispositions of Self-Identified Libertarians. PLoS
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0042366&type=printable
keywords: libertarianism
Half of Americans think the Supreme Court banned abortion
https://x.com/jonahdavids1/status/1825594363227025678
https://www.skeptic.com/research-center/reports/Research-Report-PADS-001.pdf
"Key Findings
Extreme positions on abortion are unpopular. Overall, only about 1 in 5 Americans
appear to believe that abortion access should be legal at any time during
pregnancy, and fewer than 1 in 10 believe abortion access should be outlawed
entirely.At least one area of modest agreement can be identified across partisan lines:
around 30% of Republicans, Democrats and those with no political affiliation
agree that abortion should be legal during the first trimester of pregnancy.Half of Americans—regardless of political affiliation—were incorrect about the
consequences of Roe v. Wade being overturned by the Supreme Court. Democrats
were the least accurate, with only 36.8% understanding that overturning Roe v.
Wade did not outlaw abortion entirely.Around 90% of Americans—regardless of political orientation—are incorrect
about abortion trends since 1980. Republicans are the least accurate, with fewer
than 8% understanding that abortion rates have declined.
Abortion Beliefs in the United StatesBeing younger, less educated, more religious, more anxious and more trusting of
politicians all increased the likelihood that people held false beliefs about these
abortion-related issues.About half of Americans—regardless of political affiliation—hold false beliefs
about the proportion of Republicans that want to outlaw abortion entirely. While
only about 15% of Republicans want to outlaw abortion entirely, Democrats think
that nearly 60% of Republicans want this. Republicans are even wrong about
themselves: self-identified Republicans think that 50% of Republicans want to
outlaw abortion entirely"
https://x.com/i/birdwatch/t/1824868281981034676
keywords: pronatalism, fertility