Quote

"To turn $100 into $110 is work. To turn $100 million into $110 million is inevitable." - Edgar Bronfman, Sr

RIP

Rip Taylor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip_Taylor

Yuriy Meskov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuriy_Meshkov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Crimea

Joshua Xavier Brown https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-07/witness-in-amber-guyger-wrong-apartment-trial-shot-dead/11578592

F.U.

Cuban Sonic Weapon Crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indies_short-tailed_cricket

Democracy Sausage

QAnon and ScumMo

Land Tax https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/oct/02/christopher-pyne-lobbying-south-australia-labelled-offensive

Things

Eradicating Hookworm https://rockfound.rockarch.org/eradicating-hookworm

The 1% primarily makes its income from capital, not labour https://qz.com/196575/to-get-rich-forget-entrepreneurship-and-marry-wealthy/

Piketty concludes that we may soon reach a point in which social rent-seeking al la marrying wealthy will be a far more effective path to prosperity than entrepreneurship. This is how capitalism dies--not with a revolution--but rather vitiated by rentiers, increasingly myopic and addicted like a junkie to the high of wealth accumulation.

The highest "marginal" tax rates (based on your labour income) for the OECD: 62.28% (av 40%) https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Economy/Tax/Highest-marginal-tax-rate/Individual-rate

The highest "marginal" tax rates in the OECD based on your capital gains: 42% (av 23%) https://taxfoundation.org/us-taxpayers-face-6th-highest-top-marginal-capital-gains-tax-rate-oecd

Stacks

Mark CANNOT BE FIRED https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/1/20892354/mark-zuckerberg-full-transcript-leaked-facebook-meetings

So one of the things that I've been lucky about in building this company is, you know, I kind of have voting control of the company, and that's something I focused on early on. And it was important because, without that, there were several points where I would've been fired...

Future Crime

Creating Alien Life Forms

Maximum Penalty: ICE MOON PRISON

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02622-4

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