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Cake day: July 1st, 2023
  • hypna@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•US-based multinational companies will be exempt from global tax dealEnglish
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    1 month ago

    The way I’ve heard these minimum tax agreements described usually is where all the signatories agree to collect the same minimum corporate tax rate. The article says 15%. The US already has a 21% corp tax rate, setting aside tax incentives.

    So what does it mean in this case to say that US corps are exempt? Does this mean that a US corp homed in the Caymans will pay a different rate than a French company in the Caymans? Or that the US is refusing to collect a minimum 15% after tax incentives?

    I’m sure it’s spelled out in the text of the treaty, but maybe someone here has already done the digging.

  • hypna@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What was a time when you drank the kool aid?
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    2 months ago

    I tend to think at some point that was true, that Tesla was about saving the planet and SpaceX was about making humanity multiplanetary.

    It could be he was always a wretched creep and just really good at hiding it, but it seems to me that the wealth and power just ruined him. He wouldn’t be the first person to fall in that trap.

    I’ll append my confession here.

    I supported Ron Paul once upon a time. The non-interventionism appealed to me in the context of the Iraq war in particular, and the rights-based libertarian philosophy seemed sound. I was young.

  • hypna@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*
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    2 months ago

    The last time I recall having engaging, thoughtful discussions on the internet was way back in the days of forums. And that was so long ago I’m skeptical of my own memory of it.

    Lemmy comments may be different from Reddit comments, but they’re not better. I’ve concluded it’s structural. This format simply does not produce useful conversation.

    None of the other social media formats produce it either. Perhaps it’s the result of optimizing for attention, which all social media does, whether by deliberate design or natural selection. Platforms that get attention grow. Those that don’t, languish. It may be that things which gather attention to themselves best are repellent of deeper, slower, more careful thinking.

    Actually, maybe I can think of one example. I’m stretching the definition of social media, and I haven’t firsthand experience, but the way that Wikipedia operates may be a clue toward how to build a platform that produces useful dialogue.