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    18 days ago

    Profit limits of 10-20% across all sorts of essential industries would be good, I think.

    Have some kind of progressive tax incentive where if your profit comes in under the limit you get a tax credit, and if your profit is over the limit you pay higher and higher taxes until it’s quickly not worth it anymore.

    I don’t know the details, but some system where responsible businesses are better off overall than exploitative ones…





  • This is good news. I hope that it will translate into some effective action.

    Edit: Misleading headline. This is an advisory opinion, which appears to be non-binding. I don’t think “ruling” is entirely appropriate.

    In general, advisory opinions are not binding, but may inform the development of international law. According to the ICJ website, advisory opinions:

    “carry great legal weight and moral authority. They are often an instrument of preventive diplomacy and have peace-keeping virtues. Advisory opinions also, in their way, contribute to the elucidation and development of international law and thereby to the strengthening of peaceful relations between States.”










  • Limited, sure, but not absent. How much of the article you linked did you read? The second and further sections of that article make a fairly compelling case for there having been someone who fit most of the criteria, and it also specifically addresses your “bunch of Christian historians” bit.

    “These are all Christian and are obviously and understandably biased in what they report, and have to be evaluated very critically indeed to establish any historically reliable information,” Ehrman says. “But their central claims about Jesus as a historical figure—a Jew, with followers, executed on orders of the Roman governor of Judea, Pontius Pilate, during the reign of the Emperor Tiberius—are borne out by later sources with a completely different set of biases.”

    It’s not like