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On a less somber note, you are praising the empowerment of ignorant people to become secret informants on behalf of a security state with the power to disrupt the lives of others. …

If you include wealth transfers such as inheritance in consumption, and you include mortgage spending, then log-consumption can work fine too. The only problem is that it is more d…

The idea of using log-income as a proxy for utility is not new. It is a standard measure in the economics of taxation. Yes it is different than measuring consumption. It is an impr…

Good point on the final goods distinction, thanks. The distinction between consumption and income is not significant for a large fraction of the population, and if you are going to…

A metric that I like is mean(log(after-tax income)). It is a reasonable measure of the average "utility" that income provides to a population. If money circulates among corporation…

As an alternate hypothetical, lets imagine that every multinational happens to be related to a large number of subsidiaries in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Singapore, and Luxembour…

0. When many of the world's resources will be depleted in a multi-decade timeframe, there is a problem. I want humanity to last millions of years. 1. Fortunately, longer schooling …

Take a closer look at the sections on hybrid entities, treaty shopping, and transfer pricing. There are loopholes wide enough to let tanker ships pass.

The loophole is setting up a multi-national structure to implement the base erosion and profit-shifting strategies discussed here: https://www.oecd.org/tax/aggressive/beps-2015-fin…

> So if we focused on developing a tool whose sole purpose was to give us quantified feedback on the consequences of our actions - much like how we use utility bills ... Utility bi…

I get tired of NY headlines pushing their city as the centre of the known world. So many major cities have a "Broadway".

The ratio of comments to votes in this thread is a perfect example of the "chilling effect" surrounding this topic and the limits it creates on free speech.

Why the down vote?

I agree with the sentiment, but I don't think a competition investigation is the appropriate forum to deal with this. There should be a fine, perhaps through a class action or crim…

So you think that the appropriation of unused real estate is worse than whatever disaster led to the mass exodus of a population from a major city. Interesting, but that is not how…