I think it’s fair to add more levels. It’s fair that someone earning $400K should be paying less marginal tax than someone earning $10MM. The first person is still likely spending a significant portion of their income each year on living expenses, while the second person is earning more than can be reasonably spent, so it’s just “NumBeRs gO Up!” at that point.

idk, something like 60% tax above 400K, 70% tax above 1MM, 80% tax above $3MM, 85% tax above $10MM.

What are the downsides?

That might make Canadian sports teams fail since nobody will want to take the income hit to work here? Even then, they could just restructure their compensation to be paid over a lifetime, so they get $3MM/yr for 50 years instead of $12MM/yr for 10 years (or whatever).

Exactly my point.

The “official” reasons for this don’t make sense. So that only leaves deliberate genocide as the reason.

Totally fair, but it’s also true that Israel has gained nothing of significance and lost a lot from this war, not getting any of the objectives they set forth.

Unless the actual goal is genocide, in which case they are continuing to “succeed” every day.

Whoever is the subject of the verb “did”. Whoever did something.

Whomever is an object, so whoever did something to whomever.

In other words, “whoever” does things; “whomever” has things done to them.

Huge caveat: they only surveyed unmarried 18-49 year olds. Three huge problems are obvious:

1. Unmarried people are more likely to want to remain unmarried
2. People who are past typical marrying age are less likely to want to get married
3. People who are past peak child rearing ages are less likely to want children

So, no. The headline is inaccurate. If we only survey single 18-49 y.o.s then of course we’ll get higher numbers of people who want to remain unmarried.

Still an interesting result, but very different from the clickbait headline.

I’m not parent poster, but I didn’t read that at all. International propaganda works, and has the potential to destroy democracy in America (and lots of other countries, too.)

What am I missing?

I think this 8000+ word article’s length is indicative of the “real” answer: it’s complicated.

I read the whole thing. Lots of great personalities and examples spanning from AltaVista to Large Language models and everything in between.

I think the quote that resonated with me the most, to summarize this article’s main thesis in a sound bite, was this:

You can’t just be the most powerful observer in the world for two decades and not deeply warp what you are looking at

In essence, it’s the fault of having a dominant algorithm dictating what the Internet “is”. Google is the tool most people use for most of their information seeking. Thus, getting a high ranking from Google is the difference between success and failure.

imho, the only real solution is decentralization. Federated services, local newspapers, new search engines, idk.

And yet, Google is still my default search engine. So I’m part of the problem.

I think some of the northeastern states could likely form a similarly powerful and cohesive country.

Alberta can join Montana and the Dakotas if they hate Canada so much.

Maybe BC could join the Western Seaboard, too.

It’ll probably never happen… but who knows? The relative stability of countries and international borders is a recent phenomenon.

I think the problem is terrorist watch lists based only on first/last name combos. If you have a common name, particularly a male Middle Eastern name, then your name is likely shared by someone on a terrorism watch list.

The problem is that means these people are harassed every time they try to travel. We need at least one other piece of identifying information, not just first/last, so it’s quick to exclude all the false positives.

Only in the US. Internationally, the most common last name is Wang:

Wang is a patronymic (ancestral) name that means “king” in Mandarin, and it’s shared by more than 92 million people in China, making it the most popular last name in the world. The reason it’s so populous today may have a lot to do with the fact that many royal families changed their name to Wang when their kingdoms fell under the first Qin dynasty emperor. This was both to preserve their status and protect themselves from assassination.
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So Mohammed Wang is the most common name in the world.