Paul M

Politics, Economics and other stuff

[Micode @Micode]

1/5 [NOUVELLE ENQUÊTE] : Comment frauder la Sécu ?

Pendant 6 mois on a enquêté, et on a découvert des recettes. Des montages sophistiqués utilisés par des escrocs pour détourner l’argent public à une échelle industrielle. 👇

[Zingales @zingales]

The American Dream Is Still Alive, for Cronies

Is the American dream still alive? In a recent @WSJ article, @omzidar and Eric Zwick claim it is. Yet, their book provides a more nuanced picture.

The millionaires they celebrate are not inventors, creative entrepreneurs, disruptive innovators: they are mostly rent seekers. From car dealers to beer distributors, from real estate brokers to real estate developers, their “everywhere millionaires” resemble more a list of antitrust violations than a monument to American ingenuity.

Does the American dream amount to achieving an antitrust exemption? To find out, listen to the latest episode of Capitalisn’t where Bethany and I discuss these issues with Eric: https://t.co/p83WVjlvNu

[Mubarak Regime Destigmatiser ☪️✝️🇸🇨 @MuizDweller]

One of the truly admirable things about the soviet union is that instead of lionizing the culture of the proles, they tried to elevate the commoners through mass consumption of high culture. A return to that among the western left would be most welcome.

[Sylvain Catherine @sc_cath]

Une des causes de la dépense publique est ce réflexe de traiter les problèmes fiscalement plutôt que structurellement.

[Branko Milanovic @BrankoMilan]

Interesting interview
Xi Jinping est en train de bâtir un empire provincial
Au Café de Flore, l’auteur de La Chine à toute vitesse explique pourquoi il est devenu plus pessimiste sur la Chine, reste étonnamment optimiste sur l’Amérique de Trump et voit l’Europe glisser vers une « économie mausolée ».
https://t.co/KnZp2Lh6eY

[Aurora Britt @Britt4rva]

western leftists don’t even mention state owned industry anymore they just talk about welfare state and higher taxes

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

@PessimistsArc Right. Dario was already claiming that GPT2 was too dangerous to open source back in 2019.
I made fun of them then.
Everyone should make fun of them now.

[Sylvain Catherine @sc_cath]

Les cotisations retraite, bien qu'elles représentent un pourcentage exorbitant de 28 % des salaires bruts, ne couvrent que 66,5 % des pensions.

Cependant, Coquerel affirme que le déficit annoncé par Bayrou est une fake news, car le déficit, après subvention d'équilibre et autres transferts, ne s'élèverait qu'à quelques milliards.

Le concept de déficit après subvention d'équilibre n'a aucun sens économique, car l'objectif même d'une subvention d'équilibre est précisément... de combler le déséquilibre entre les recettes et les dépenses.

[Antoine Levy @LevyAntoine]

Allez on continue les unpop opinions: il y a très peu de raisons d’avoir des taux réduits de TVA, qui sont coûteux (~50 milliards, les fameuses “aides aux entreprises”!) et bénéficient en bonne partie aux + aisés (cf alimentaire).
Mieux vaut cibler des transferts en cash.

[David Miet @MietDavid]

3 niveaux + 2 en surélévation.

L'abondance foncière est aussi aérienne.

Voici un très beau projet de surélévation + rénovation des niveaux existants.

(classé 2e, ce n'est pas celui-ci qui sera construit)

Là encore, cela nécessité que le règlement local d'urbanisme autorise ces projets, ici les 4 étages.

(on est ici dans le cas d'une dent creuse verticale, donc pas de soucis particulier, à priori, même si parfois, je pense à certains secteurs de Bordeaux en particulier, monter l'immeuble ou la maison à la hauteur des voisins est interdit)

#YIMBY

[Gérard Araud @GerardAraud]

Le train de vie de l’Etat coûte autant que le financement d’un jour de retraites.

[The Lever @LeverNews]

🚨 MASTER PLAN IS BACK.

We’re back from our midseason break with Dick Cheney — and the story of how a 50-year campaign to build a president above the law, from Watergate through Iran-Contra, helped create the unchecked power Trump claims today.

[Praxis @praxiss]

You know that feeling on a day off when nothing’s being asked of you and you still can’t relax. You keep checking how much of the day is left or decide you’ve wasted it, which is a strange thing to feel about hours that were meant to be yours. Baudrillard has a long discussion++

[csz @cszabla]

AI taking jobs not because it can do them better than humans but because it can (theoretically) assist outsourced employees to take on more work from expensive labor markets

[venus 🪷. @r0segardenn]

i’ve always thought schengen was a chinese ass name for a european visa

[David Carretta @davcarretta]

Édition spéciale de La Matinale Européenne.

Mon analyse: « La solidarité européenne est morte à Ceuta » 👇

https://t.co/NcXaYUWaCD

[Minh Nhat Nguyen @menhguin]

inequality will obviously increase with AI. the whole point of AI is to reduce human labour as a bottleneck of value. it enables capital owners to directly create more capital while skipping labour to an unprecedented degree. it breaks a lot of implicit social checks and balances

[Filippo Grandi @FilippoGrandi]

Migrants manipulated to create political pressure on Spain.

Many governments’ reactions driven by domestic politics — zero genuine concerns.

EU coordination hesitant, difficult to understand.

Not a word of compassion for the victims.

#Ceuta: what a failure, Europe.

[LBark @franzsherbert]

Tapping the sign

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

should be obvious by now, but OpenAI and Anthropic are just gonna keep cannibalizing all their biggest customers.

it’s simply too profitable for them to resist. and it’s already happening:

1. Figma partnered with Anthropic on AI design tools. then Anthropic’s product chief quit Figma’s board, and 3 days later Anthropic launched Claude Design to compete with Figma. CEO Dylan Field said Anthropic was “not consistently candid.”

2. Novo Nordisk uses Claude to help develop drugs. now Anthropic is developing drugs of its own.

3. Microsoft poured billions into OpenAI. now OpenAI is building a Jobs Platform to compete with LinkedIn, and reportedly a code repository to compete with GitHub. Microsoft owns both.

4. Harvey uses Claude to sell AI contract analysis, due diligence, and litigation tools. now Anthropic sells those same workflows through Claude for Legal.

5. Intercom used OpenAI’s Realtime API to build Fin Voice. now OpenAI sells its own voice-and-chat support agent through Presence.

6. Abridge and Ambience build clinical documentation products on OpenAI. now OpenAI sells ChatGPT for Healthcare directly to hospitals with clinical documentation built in.

7. Benchling uses Claude to power its biotech R&D platform. now Anthropic sells its own scientific workbench through Claude Science.

the frontier lab playbook is simple:

1. sell their models to the world’s most valuable businesses
2. help wire them into those companies’ most valuable and sensitive work
3. map the business from the inside and find where AI can take over
4. turn those capabilities into their own products and become the customer’s competitor