Skeptic Project

I once tried to sit through a sovereign society recording explaining how Soros is the devil and the OECD the tool of evil collectivists.

I'm reading the German standard work on taxes and tariffs each year and I was foolishly assuming the stuff in the States wouldn't be that different. Instead, I learned that competition was good, because entrepreneurs always succeed even when they grow up in shitty neighborhoods with no infrastructure and well, who cares about the rest. Still, I gotta admit to their credit that the part about how "real" Americans should expatriate and wait for an Atlas Shrugged-type scenario was kinda funny.

Well, if you allow a minority to set the desired outcome to compete for - in this case highly concentrated amounts of money looking for the lowest amount of taxation possible - the majority obviously ends up with the worse deal, in this case less tax money to spend on those who can't afford private schools and a secure life in gated communities. That's one of the biases that come with markets and increased inequality, and reaching some form of multinational agreement on taxes (and tax fraud) is currently the only way to combat it.

It's just pathetic that lots of people are just unable to say "I'm a dick, I want all the money for myself", so they have to invent elaborate and fantastical explanations about how they're doing the moral thing.

Thinking about that makes me cringe about the stupid shit I would've written 1-2 years ago. I remember confusing OECD with OPEC, and that wasn't the dumbest move.