I don't understand your question, but what I do understand seems interesting enough that I want to understand it.

looks like a dyslexic mistake

I was thinking autocorrect, but that's also plausible.

Its quite unusual to have so witty comments on this forum.

I believe a lot have been said here and it reveals how the so called economist at DB thinks.

On my side,I would just like to add a reference to F.Bastia

And its well known sophism:

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/frederic-bastiat.asp#:~....

I think it's just because this is the rare case where pretty much everyone agrees with how stupid the proposal is (thanks again, Europe's regulatory culture!)

When there's a significant balance of good-faith disagreement, mocking turns the temperature up substantially and people tend to avoid it more.

Would you consider volontarily contribution instead?

Possibly not what you mean but I very strongly believe tax rates should he a minimum where you can set your own (and displayed publicly) tax rate above a certain level for your income.

Both physically and online, as someone who grew up not poor but far far from rich i.e. I've still only been abroad from the UK twice in my (so far short) life, I am absolutely sick of rich people saying "I'd pay more tax if I could" as a throwaway gesture. I increasingly think an underlying motive of why I study fairly intensely is just to end up better than those who were born better than me.

If you really believe that, put your money where your mouth is.

Oh please. Of course they don't meant that. Because you can totally give money to the government. https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/public/gifts-to-government.h...

What they actually mean is "I wish you made me pay more". Because they can't bring themselves to write a check to -give- it away, but -do- feel they should have to pay more. Part of that is the social aspect; why should I, as a rich person, be paying more than other people of similar wealth? But I support all of us paying more.

Saying "I wish you made me pay more" while then turning around and hire the best tax accountants to avoid paying even one cent, and lobbying, funding and grooming politicians that will block any wealth taxes, is just adding insult to injury and insulting hypocrisy.

Well, it's the same motivation, isn't it? "All my peers are doing this - I would be a sucker not to do the same". It's that feeling of being taken advantage of that they want to avoid.

Let's be clear, there are three kinds of mindsets here:

"I don't want to be taxed at all" - lots of lobbying and such to keep taxes on the rich low, and lots of loopholes.

"I think people of my bracket should be taxed higher, but I am going to avail myself of every existing loophole and itemization I can" - doesn't want to feel like a sucker, but agrees people in their bracket, themselves included, should pay more.

"I think people of my bracket should be taxed higher, and I'm going to give money away anonymously or similar to put my money where my mouth is, even if others of my bracket are not" - a unicorn.

This is very similar to saying that charities should deal with these issues (homelessness, drug additction, etc) not the government. Charities rely on donations. I strongly think that the government should be dealing with these things.

I think I should be taxed more but I also don't think that me voluntarily paying 1% more tax will change anything. However everyone playing 1% more tax will so fundamentally change everything that it's worth doing.

I don't say "I'd pay more tax if I could" I say "I should pay more tax and so should everyone else earning as much as me"

>I increasingly think an underlying motive of why I study fairly intensely is just to end up better than those who were born better than me. You might want to consider the fact then that social mobility is generally higher in countries with higher tax rates.

Apologize for the comment out of context as it was mentionned above: The history is always written by the victors and regardless who was the good guy or not Why just take it all, and coldly analysis historical facts?

Henri Kissinger's book, World order, is a great example of this approach.

Too bad not being able to reach the website because of "site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit."

Though I do like read HN comments first and then the article

Worth to mention that inflation is more sneaky than it seems. It has been partially mentioned with the degradation of the quality of stuffs or services bought. Another way to cause inflation is the increasing number of law bited and applied that owners need to comply with. Bein up to date with the legislation,etc is clearly time consuming. This always comes at yhe owner's cost and can't hardly pass to their clients ( unless you're Amazon or Apple). I would recommend to read Thomas Sowel's book and an artcile that blow my mind called "being poor is expensive". This shocked me as I realised how true were his statements.

I can't find the article describing it but the gender bias tends to be disregarded when you add one additional parameter: place of birth.

In third world countries, women reprensent 50% of the students in engineering classes ( for reasons that are easily understandable).

Actually, the bias observed applyies in countries where freedom of choice is given to everyone.

Indeed not a problem per say. However it raises some ambiguities over its real intentions. Timing is too perfect for not pointing that out. But it cannot be blamed blame for working out the system here.

There are no ambiguities over its real intentions. It won't run in court but it's very clear what he is doing.

Being quite ignorant upon this topic, but witnessed sneaky behaviour in my company ( emails with with courtesy sentences systematically missing) I wad wondering to which degree this could explain why India is lagging behind China?

Any thoughts?

Is India really lagging? I don't trust China's numbers, but I also don't know anything about the real situation there. Both countries are developing fast, and that often means that the reality of the situation isn't reflected in the numbers for years.

For those who don't know, Bloomberg journalist have their bonus linked to their capacity to have their articles impacting th market. Bloomberg has developed a tool to monitor this.