opponents of the minimum wealth tax totally lack historical perspective ... It is unrealistic to imagine that the working class and the middle class will calmly accept additional taxes or cuts to public spending. So long as the wealthiest individuals pay taxes that are trivial relative to their net worth, no one will accept the slightest sacrifice. Just as in the decades that came before 1789
If one builds a fortune while relying on the country’s infrastructure, education, and health systems, there is no reason that one should so readily escape the collective obligations that fund these systems
By opposing the 2% minimum wealth tax on billionaires, after the measure was adopted by France's Assemblée nationale (lower house of Parliament), the upper house, the Sénat, has shown …
Wealth is collective: It depends on the involvement of thousands of employees, not a handful of individual geniuses
According to Challenges magazine, which is hardly a bastion of left-wing thought, France’s 500 highest fortunes rose from €200 billion to €1.2 trillion between 2010 and 2025 – a 500% increase. With a 2% annual wealth tax, it would take a century to make them go back to their 2010 level. That’s assuming they receive no income in the meantime, which would make little sense, given that these fortunes have grown by 7% to 8% per year over the past 15 years
Bloc National (1919-1924) – one of the most right-wing legislatures in the French Republic’s history – that would raise the tax rate to 60% in 1920, and then to 75% in 1923
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这就是世界运作的机制。 我们这个世界，千变万化、诸法无常，好像没有一样东西是永恒的。仔细一看，不是，这个世界其…
正如之前说过的，德和道息息相关。道是变化的规律，德便是人类活了很长时间、经历了许多历史教训以后才发展出来的、合…
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現在已經惡化到極端不公平(extremely unfair)，少數人一開始就已經極端有錢（極端富豪 Extreme Rich），你寶貴的人生還无條件接受他們的遊戲規則陪他們玩？絕望嗎？躺平嗎？會吵的孩子有糖喫。你不行動，一生不會有出息
the world’s first trillionaire by 2027
“Trillions of dollars exist for financing development – but too much public money is captured by private power.”
violence is on the rise
The rules-based world order is in retreat and violence is on the rise, forcing countries to rethink their relationships
Inside Job is a 2010 American documentary film, directed by Charles Ferguson, about the 2008 financial crisis. Ferguson, who began researching in 2008,[3] said the film is about "the systemic corruption of the United States by the financial services industry and the consequences of that systemic corruption",[4] amongst them conflicts of interest...
今年年初，美國南加州（又）發生震驚世界的大火。比較有趣的是，右派相信是因為政策不利、水庫沒水，所以導致大火延燒……
Conventional “symbolic” AI runs computations according to algorithms and traditional computer programs that are stated abstractly ... But generative AI works in a different way, by approximating the things that humans have said in various situations.A symbolic AI system could simply look up where Shearer was born, such as by consulting his Wikipedia page. By contrast, generative AI systems ingest the entire internet, identify patterns of human language, and try to reconstruct what sounds plausible in a given contextHallucinations tend to be the kind of thing a person might say in a given context if she didn’t exactly know what was going on ... it is generating the kind of reasonable-sounding, well-formed, grammatical sentence that you might hear from a human. But it is false
作为世界上最权威的科技商业媒体之一，MIT Technology Review于1899年在美国麻省理工学院创刊，至今已经走过121年，为全世界超过300万专业人士及商业领袖提供前瞻性的资讯和独到深入的行业趋势分析。
In 2025, The American Sunlight Project, a non-profit, published a study[161] showing evidence that the so-called Pravda network, a pro-Russia propaganda aggregator, was strategically placing web content through mass publication and duplication with the intention of biasing LLM outputs. The American Sunlight Project coined this technique "LLM grooming", and pointed to it as a new tool of weaponizing AI to spread disinformation and harmful content
A large language model (LLM) is a language model trained with self-supervised machine learning on a vast amount of text, designed for natural language processing tasks, especially language generation. The largest and most capable LLMs are generative pretrained transformers (GPTs), which are largely used in generative chatbots such as ChatGPT...
“We need policy changes, not just tech breakthroughs, to meet our climate goals.”... the conflict between human interests ... at a point when the growth of that very technology is threatening to undermine the meager progress the world has begun to make on climate change ... one thing we can state confidently about generative AI is that it’s making the hardest problem we’ve ever had to solve that much harder to solve
OpenAI’s Sam Altman claims AI will deliver an "Intelligence Age," but tech breakthroughs alone can't solve global warming.
other countries should make market access to foreign multinationals (and their main owners) conditional on their paying a minimum amount of tax ... If billionaires refuse to pay taxes, market access for the firms they own should be denied
You have to give Donald Trump credit for one thing: for all his inconsistency on many issues, he believes deeply in high tariffs. He has been preaching that gospel for at least four decades, convinced that tariffs are the key to America’s future prosperity. Shortly after promising to “tariff and tax foreign countries to enri
target US multinationals and their owners directly. The world needs tariffs not for US exports, but for oligarchs
In 2017, the [Business Roundtable] group threw its support behind the first Trump administration’s $1.5 trillion tax-cut legislation, which overwhelmingly benefited corporations and the wealthy. Last year, it announced that it would spend “eight figures” lobbying to protect and extend the legislation’s business-friendly tax breaks. As for Biden’s 2022 Build Back Better initiative – which proposed modest tax increases on high earners to fund public services like education, health care, and infrastructure – the Business Roundtable voiced clear opposition
Christopher Marquis thinks the US Business Roundtable's April report should serve as a wake-up call to Democratic lawmakers.
delivering real value to workers and the environment would cost money, which would reduce shareholder dividends and executive pay – the real priorities of the Business Roundtable’s members. In fact, the compensation of CEOs who signed the stakeholder-capitalism “commitment” has continued to reflect their success in delivering shareholder value. When the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in 2020, Marriott International almost immediately began furloughing most of its US workers – while paying out more than $160 million in quarterly dividends and seeking a raise for its CEO, a signatory of the 2019 statement
even from a commercial perspective, this approach is fundamentally flawed. A growing body of research shows that failure to account for social and environmental imperatives poses clear, material risks to firm operations and performance ... For example, companies with poor climate-risk management routinely face supply-chain instability, greater exposure to extreme weather events, and higher capital costs. In other words, the Business Roundtable’s opposition to environmentally-focused policies and proposals is not just hypocritical; from their own short-sighted shareholder-capitalist perspective
The new Business Roundtable Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation has received a great deal of support, as well as questions and…
