a thru line of the Trump Admin’s actions is testing the proposition nothing the Federal govt does matters or is any good. will ppl really die if PEPFAR is halted? is NIH just a job program for dorky Democrats? doesn’t FEMA just step on better informed states? isn’t the military just foreign aid?
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Oslo!
yeah, sorry about that. bsky.app/profile/inte...
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oh it's not. yes, perhaps that was ill-tempered, ill-timed, poorly expressed. but i just find it infuriating that the same political coalition that argues we have to accept unlimited profiteering for the sake of medical research and innovation has no problem killing the golden goose of NIH.
yes, but God forbid anyone weaken pharma patents and the ability to charge any ransom on the health of the sick, in the name of course of modern medical research.
section 230 at the very least should not apply to paid content. freeradical.zone/@tek/1138847...
Tek say resist (@tek@freeradical.zone)
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people are constantly accusing the federal government of being a jobs program, but that’s just Congress.
yes. that’d be great because the income pattern would be inherent to the business.
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we hear it over and over and yet. no exit.
I guess because they've made them available to run locally (where OpenAI models might not in fact be heavier, their nonavailability makes them seem infinitely heavy, you can't run them yourself), and because their API pricing is much cheaper.
I may not be getting it? If the income you to some degree superintend is spread across households, they can each give up to the cap, but you still end up with only 60% of the sum donated. 1/
I'm far from a tax accountant, but some things you might try would be to reduce your taxable income before any donations. 2/
If you are running any kind of business, you could buy business equipment and deduct up to $1M rather than depreciate it. Or find customers or vendors you'd like to support and offer prices that yield a loss. (You'd want to clear this with a lawyer I think, though.) /fin
Good luck finding a way!
(can you donate 100%? i think there may be a 50% cap, maybe increasing to 60% for 2024? www.irs.gov/charities-no... www.stjude.org/give/giving-... regardless, i applaud the middle finger!)
as long as it is not also preclusory.
yes. that’s i guess the kind of thing i’m trying to think through. like the association with surpluses would be productivity > wages *not matched* by “democratization of credit” style welcoming of inflows as private consumer debt or welfare state consumption financed by public debt.
“What sort of libertarian is so angry about enforced mask-wearing, but so relaxed about other, greater, infringements of liberty? …What [putative right-wing libertarians] are doing is not asserting liberty so much as denying the existence of collective action problems.”
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(i’m responding to this thread in the bad place attributing surpluses to productivity > wages x.com/michaelxpett... i guess the question is to what do you attribute productivity > wages not leading to surpluses, instead to those net inflows, in the US?)
@michaelpettis.bsky.social hasn’t the US also chronically kept wage growth lower than productivity? but the result has hardly been balance of payments surpluses. to what do you attribute that? nonwage compensation costs? “capital” inflows financing excess consumption?
in my dream, once you ran AI software on a microchip it didn’t matter what you ran afterwards. the microchip had become sentient.