In Europe and Asia, I'd expect so. In the States, fossil fuel interests have already mobilized their media campaign, pushing for new taxes to penalize local solar energy generation. They've had some victories and some…
I think because, there's no reason to assume they would be - labor costs are still (mostly) driven by supply and demand. If gizmos and computers and internets increase a worker's productivity, the gains go to the…
That chart shows per capita income without adjusting for inflation. It's not very useful for drawing conclusions about real income. And per capita is a simple average, while looking at medians or quintiles gives you a…
I'm inclined to agree. It's striking how the graph showing the wealth flow to the top 1% correlates with changes to the capital gains tax rate. There are benefits to a low cap gains rate, but below a certain level, it…
It might be just an inherent lag between optimized mass consumption, and new innovative production. Scaling the Web out to the mass market happened first, next-generation innovations like Google showed up later. It is…
In Europe and Asia, I'd expect so. In the States, fossil fuel interests have already mobilized their media campaign, pushing for new taxes to penalize local solar energy generation. They've had some victories and some…
I think because, there's no reason to assume they would be - labor costs are still (mostly) driven by supply and demand. If gizmos and computers and internets increase a worker's productivity, the gains go to the…
That chart shows per capita income without adjusting for inflation. It's not very useful for drawing conclusions about real income. And per capita is a simple average, while looking at medians or quintiles gives you a…
I'm inclined to agree. It's striking how the graph showing the wealth flow to the top 1% correlates with changes to the capital gains tax rate. There are benefits to a low cap gains rate, but below a certain level, it…
It might be just an inherent lag between optimized mass consumption, and new innovative production. Scaling the Web out to the mass market happened first, next-generation innovations like Google showed up later. It is…