Alberto Fatticcioni

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[Lorenzo Ruffino @Ruffino_Lorenzo]

Si parla di patrimoniale, ma il problema in Italia è un altro: il sistema fiscale è completamente sbagliato. Tassa tanto il lavoro e poco le rendite disincentivando la creazione di valore, l'opposto di quello che si dovrebbe fare. Ne ho scritto nella newsletter.

[Gilberto Trombetta @Gitro77]

Chissà perché certe persone parlano sempre di evasione fiscale e mai di elusione. Eppure, tanto per fare un esempio, l'evasione fiscale di lavoratori autonomi e piccole imprese imputabile all'uso del contate (il barista che non fa lo scontrino per il caffè e l'idraulico che ti fa pagare di meno senza fattura) vale appena il 4,1% dell'evasione totale (circa 8 miliardi) mentre le grandi imprese che eludono le tasse grazie ai paradisi fiscali di cui è piena la UE il 23,6% (circa 42 miliardi di euro).

[Alberto Fatticcioni @WildProton]

Confido nelle bestemmie, nel bioregionalismo e nel poliamore

Altro che dio patria e famiglia

[Alberto Fatticcioni @WildProton]

Larderello - Pomarance
La storia della geotermia in Italiano e nel mondo. Un bel documentario degli anni 50
#rinnovabili
https://t.co/CiVHg8EJGB

[Siim Land @siimland]

The way you internalize stress may determine how harmful it becomes.

Among older adults, the strongest psychosocial predictor of memory decline over 5 years was stress internalization:
- more perceived stress
- more hopelessness
- less conscientiousness

Social support, activity engagement, and community cohesion were not significantly associated with memory decline.

PMID: 40683837

[Zeke Hausfather @hausfath]

The world has warmed by around 1.4C since 1850.

It took 148 years for the first half of that warming to occur, and just 27 years for the second half!

[Franco Maria Fontana @francofontana43]

Allarme Onu. L’Intelligenza Artificiale minaccia di divorarsi l’acqua del Pianeta
I Data Center dedicati all’intelligenza artificiale potrebbero consumare ogni anno una quantità d’acqua paragonabile al fabbisogno di oltre 1,3 miliardi di persone, praticamente l’intera popolazione dell’Africa subsahariana
Una foto, fornita da un istituto di ricerca dell’ONU, che è anche una drammatica denuncia
L’Osservatore Romano

[Eric Levitz @EricLevitz]

Smartphones appear to have accelerated the global fertility crisis -- by making social isolation and singledom more comfortable and entertaining.

Chatbots could nudge humanity even further in this direction. Today, digital technology doesn't just provide loners with perpetual stimulation but also, forms of emotional support that previously required real world relationships.

Full article here (and for now, no paywall!): https://t.co/XnsI7Mr6Uy

[Eric Levitz @EricLevitz]

A collapse in the global population looks increasingly inevitable. Fertility rates have fallen below replacement in more than 66% of nations.

No policy intervention has substantially reversed this trend. And technological progress seems to be accelerating it. A smaller, weirder world is on its way
https://t.co/XnsI7MrEK6

[Siim Land @siimland]

Caffeine raises blood pressure, but mostly if you're not used to consuming it.

Habitual caffeine consumers develop tolerance to caffeine's blood pressure-raising effects.

Regular coffee consumption doesn't appear to be associated with an increased risk of hypertension.

Graph: DOI: 10.5649/jjphcs.40.383

[Lukas Ekwueme @ekwufinance]

A food crisis in the making

- We lost 50% of all seaborne traded urea
- 25% of global ammonia trade
- Both are key ingredients for nitrogen fertilizer
- Nitrogen fertilizer is responsible for 50% of food production

When you apply less fertilizer than the crop removes, you gradually deplete key nutrients from the soil, which leads to lower yields.

Lower fertilizer application rates don't just impact the current harvest... they can also reduce soil fertility and future crop yields.

[Marcos Agustín @marcosagusstinn]

The idea that China’s industrial success has been built on free-market competition is false.

In 2024 alone, China accounted for 52% of the $108bn in industrial subsidies tracked by the OECD, and almost 60% of Chinese firms’ market-share gains since 2005 were driven by subsidies.

Europe failed to build enough sovereign military production, underinvested in energy sovereignty, was too slow to support its own tech industries, and reacted too late to China’s state-backed industrial expansion.

A strongly pro-business economy is essential for growth. But sovereignty does not happen by free market alone.

Europe needs much more strategic ambition from the state.

[Gilberto Trombetta @Gitro77]

L'aumento dei prezzi, soprattutto di quelli energetici, è una manna dal cielo per le casse dello Stato che così aumenta le entrate (che sono le nostre uscite). Uno Stato senza una propria banca centrale che finanzia la spesa pubblica è costretto a finanziarsi con la fiscalità, assurgendo di fatto al ruolo di strozzino. Non è un caso che la pressione fiscale in Italia è esplosa dopo il divorzio BdI/Tesoro passando dal 31% del 1980 all'attuale 43%.

[Gilberto Trombetta @Gitro77]

A prescindere dai Governi in carica (centrosinistra, centrodestra, tecnici), l'Italia continua a perseguire un'autolesionista politica basata sulla compressione della domanda interna (austerità+deflazione salariale) per favorire le esportazioni. Si distruggono due componenti fondamentali del PIL e della crescita (spesa pubblica e consumi) per favorirne una (esportazioni). Fenomeni!

[David Ullrich @DavidUllrich202]

Mysterious ‘cold blob’ in the Atlantic suggests the AMOC is weakening

A patch of ocean south-east of Greenland is the only place on Earth that is cooling, and it could be a sign that the warm water “conveyor belt” in the Atlantic is slowing down

https://t.co/iOP7S0fjUS

https://t.co/nKdwhlJCaW

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

Economics has never been, and never will be, a value-free science.

At its core, economics is shaped by ideologies, value judgements, competing interests, social norms, and political priorities.

Adam Smith and Karl Marx — two of the most important figures in the history of economics — both treated it as an inherently political subject. They didn't even call it "economics." They called it political economy.

For Smith, the study of wealth creation was inseparable from questions about the state, social class, and moral philosophy. For Marx, the economy was a system of power relations.

Yet most introductory economics textbooks relegate politics, power, and history to footnotes. Technical models fill the space instead, abstractions that describe an imaginary economy more than the real one.

My newsletter's most popular piece is on how economics became a discipline detached from politics — despite the fact that it is intrinsically and unavoidably political.

Link to the full piece in the comments.

[Alberto Fatticcioni @WildProton]

@Ruffino_Lorenzo Dire che le micro-imprese sono un problema è come osservare un bosco e dire che i germogli e i cespugli sono un problema...

[Matteo Villa @emmevilla]

La “sovranità digitale europea” è molto lontana.
Un grafico per capire quanto dipendiamo dagli USA per servizi cloud e software aziendali.

[Alberto Fatticcioni @WildProton]

L'evoluzione ci ha plasmati per vivere una interfaccia semplificata di sopravvivenza

#cognitivescience

[Donald Hoffman @donalddhoffman]

“evolution shaped us not to perceive objective reality directly, but to experience a simplified survival interface … space-time may function more like a navigational dashboard than objective reality itself”

https://t.co/hj5Ex5cFRR

[Donald Hoffman @donalddhoffman]

“evolution shaped us not to perceive objective reality directly, but to experience a simplified survival interface … space-time may function more like a navigational dashboard than objective reality itself”

https://t.co/hj5Ex5cFRR