Song of the day 🌞☀️: https://open.spotify.com/track/0zsk93WrEh6vmjVAQm6vHv?si=U_SMu_NVRmqnHj7v3dTzLg&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1EplmQPLcr0KkJ

Good idea: tax wealth not income.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/oct/22/eu-funded-report-calls-for-wealth-of-super-rich-to-be-taxed-not-income

🤖💬The EU Tax Observatory has reported that the world's wealthiest 3,000 individuals, including billionaires, have been using shell companies to exploit tax loopholes, effectively avoiding income taxes. They propose a 2% annual wealth tax on these super-rich individuals, which could generate £250 billion annually. This proposal aims to address the unfair disparity between the minimal taxes paid by billionaires compared to ordinary citizens.

A few days before a neo-Nazi demonstration in Athens, Greece that is supposed to bring in fascists from around Europe, anti-fascists marched to the planned location of the demonstration and destroyed a monument on Heraklion Avenue erected by the fascist political party Golden Dawn.

From Charlottesville to Athens, fascism must be stopped, not memorialized.

https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1627277

TIL Africa accounts for just 3% of the world's trade [source, comments]

TIL use of the German flag outside of sporting events is rare due to German flag waving being associated with with Nazi Germany and nationalism [source, comments]

Song of the day 😇😈: https://open.spotify.com/track/1f7eBRPgFfKPhqMU7z31yF?si=ibC-uJMnTLax7gnKhej5qw

damn

TIL that Wincanton, in Somerset, UK is twinned with Ankh-Morpork--a fictitious town from Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" series of books--and that the town is the first to name streets after their fictional equivalents. [source, comments]

Song of the day 🍚💔: https://youtu.be/yiG9EYCzBe8?feature=shared

And here's the link to the research in English: https://www.carbonbombs.org/