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It is only surprising if you think mathematics is more or less equivalent to arithmetic.

I was "bad at math" all the way through school and it wasn't until I realised how wrong this is that it finally clicked. I still cannot calculate shit unless I have pen and paper but I usually have access to this when solving integrals. I went into a math heavy program at uni without any issue.

I remember reading a while ago that it is actually a problem in education that the only ones who pursue math degrees ate those who could easily grasp the arithmetic heavy parts of math, resulting in a narrow presentation of what math really is throughout school.

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The Case for California’s Billionaire Wealth Tax

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What I do not understand is what we should be scared of? If the ones who are not paying taxes flee, what are we losing? I see this all the time that "well if I payed less taxes I would work more" which is pointless from a state perspective since there is no increase in income.

Some people seem to live under the delusion that billionaires carry with them economic growth when they are hoarders of capital. A healthy economy should have a high turnover of capital which can only feasibly happen if the middle class is large. That the size of the middle class is shrinking is not due to the poor, ergo...

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something to be reinvented

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It's crazy. I mean even if you are against taxes and everything it is a shared pool of resources. What are we supposed to with it if not pay for these things? Pay for the salaries of politicians that do not utilise these resources?

All the time you hear from these people what the government should not be spending tax payer money on but you rarely hear anything about what the money should be spent on.

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Writing with AI help can shift your opinions

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Well of course it will be different. One has to do with another author publishing questionable data and the other would be related to misunderstanding of someone else's published data. In this case, the use of AI in writing is implied to result in authors not being in control of what they themselves publish.

All of these are bad but do not necessarily arise on purpose. But let's not add ways to muddy the already mudied waters of science.