Patrick Bertschy

Product Manager in MedTech who fancies tech, free market economics and peanuts.

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In Britain, the top 1% pay an effective income-tax rate of about 40%, up from less than 35% in the 2000s.

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As recently as 2022 nearly 40% of personal income taxes in California were paid by the top 1%.

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This holiday season around two-thirds of consumers in rich countries (and five-sixths of those aged 18-24) plan to use AI to help them shop, according to a survey by Shopify.

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.@ZohranKMamdani promised to raise the minimum wage to $30. Prices would rise significantly, making an already expensive place to live even dearer. When firms raise prices to offset their costs, it is the poor who suffer most—more so than from sales taxes, writes @TheEconomist .

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@Rainmaker1973 Got it

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@robprogressive Switzerland

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The AI boom has so far been based more on the belief that it will change everything than hard evidence that it can generate returns, wrote @TheEconomist

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

2025, a mathematical wonder
https://t.co/R7k9DIbqsx

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

I asked @elonmusk to put me in charge of cutting the Pentagon. And he said - what are your suggestions? I run the largest left-wing network online and a Democratic leader has NEVER asked me that question. The idea that they would take advice from a populist is disdainful to them.

[Bill Maher @billmaher]

One thing I hate about the left that needs to change.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Bill Clinton On the Palestinians:

“And the only time Yasser Arafat didn't tell me the truth was when he promised me he was gonna accept the peace deal that we had worked out, which would have given the Palestinians a state on 96% of the West Bank and 4% of Israel, and they got to choose where the 4% of Israel was. So they would have the effect of the same land of all the West Bank. They would have a capital in East Jerusalem.

I can hardly talk about this…. And they would have equal access all day every day to the security towers that Israel maintained all through the West Bank up to the Golan Heights.

All this was offered, including, I will say it again, a capital in East Jerusalem and 2 of the 4 quadrants of the old city of Jerusalem, confirmed by the Israeli prime minister, Ehud Barak, and his cabinet. And they said no.

And I think part of it is that Hamas did not care about a homeland for the Palestinians. They wanted to kill Israelis and make Israel uninhabitable.

Well, I got news for them, they were there first before there was their faith existed.

They were there. In the time of King David, in the southern most tribes, Hadjardia and Samaria.”

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@TheEconomist You wrote: “she has abandoned the Democrats’ most left-wing ideas and is campaigning near the centre”. That doesn’t sound like a objective and reassuring enough justification to me.

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Researchers at Northwestern University have found that negative ads suppress voting more than positive ads encourage it.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This is how sound travels from the outside world, into the ear and to the brain.

[🎞️ design_cells]

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Bud Light’s star is still falling more than a year after a boycott turned the U.S. beer industry upside down
https://t.co/FMW5CbuQ8c https://t.co/FMW5CbuQ8c

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72% of registered voters in the US now think Biden doesn’t have the mental and cognitive health to serve as a president. Up from 65%. (CBS News/YouGov)

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.@BBCNews not optimistic on France: The nightmare scenario would be an RN victory leading to calls from the far left for demonstrations, which then turn violent and are joined by people of immigrant origin from the banlieues.

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The median home sale price in the US has jumped by nearly 30% since the end of 2019, hitting $420,000 this spring.