Big event for political theorists and inequality scholars!

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If Zohran Mamdani or Abdul El-Sayed had used the word “Shylock” as an insult, the ADL would be attacking them by name relentlessly. But Donald Trump used it, so we get a generic condemnation of the word without any specific reference to who actually used it, and with no assumption of intent.

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In Brazil a few weeks ago I was very impressed with the Pix instant money transfer system. I could see why Trump attacked it, and also why Lula defended it so passionately. It’s costless and therefore profitess for Trump’s key supporters: monopoly capitalists. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pix_(pa...

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It's a great chart. But the big takeaway from looks to me to be that the large majority of people are paying a smaller proportion of their income in tax today, compared with 2009/10.

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Thanks! 😊

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