I'm one of that 0.1%, since my yearly salary is more than about USD90k. And my attached wealth is the most typical kind, too: my wife and I bought a place to live, which we haven't sold in the 20+ years since moving in. It probably could be sold for a fair bit more than we paid: untaxed wealth.
I suspect that we won't pay 100% tax on whatever we earn when we sell, if we sell, but if we were taxed 100% I'm sure something nice could be done with that money.
I'm quite impressed by the rhetorical skill here. It's easy to overlook that what they're saying is "by taxing something/someone 100%, it would be possible to...", ie. "If pigs would fly, it would be possible to..." and making it easy to overlook that takes real skill.
Its harder. 20% of Russians(my estimate) have connections to Ukraine (relatives, friends, or were born there) and could be Ukrainian agents, there are lots of land routes how you can smuggle stuff. Things are not as well connected between Iran and US.
Agents in the US would just be normal citizens asking for money/crypto. You'd need to find fools to deceive, but a lot of people fall for scams to get small gains. Many hard drug users in particular are often rather self centered in my limited experience.
Or if you wanted to attack refineries, you could possibly select some climate change activists to do it for you?
Or find angry children to do it. Make things go bang for fun.
Our industrial infrastructure appears to be vulnerable to me (as a superficial opinion).
The real fix is to help poor people in other countries to like the US. And work hard at avoiding doing things that radicalise dangerous haters.
It seems to me that there a large and well-established drug smuggling industry that might be quite interested in Iranian drone technology and has long-established logistics competence regarding transport into the US from distant countries. (I searched for 'fentanyl precursors' now, some search results named very distant sources.)
These people are used to executing civilians when they are the police. That's how IRGC, hamas and hezbollah work. You won't see much action from people like that when they can't just shoot anyone that they don't like.
A couple of years ago the last of the exploration rigs in Norway left Norwegian waters. Because nothing that could be drilled (and hasn't already) can compete on price with solar etc.
Lots of people think someone should do this or that. They don't invest their own money though, they just think someone else should do, etc.
I notice that all the recent finds on sodir.no are close to existing fields, like 5km, or even in existing fields. My friend who told me this works in strange places, far from existing infrastructure. I assume there are different kinds of equipment, and he was talking about his kind, and I understood it to be more general.
If it's anything like the situation in the UK's part of the North Sea then it'll be development of new wells in existing fields rather than entirely new exploration.
The majors have effectively abandoned new drilling, leaving a bunch of smaller or independent players - but even they are mostly doing limited appraisal & development operations rather than exploration in the traditional sense.
If the Iran situation drags on for more than a year then there'll likely be a temporary increase in activity, but the declining trend will almost certainly continue in the longer term even without further regulatory intervention.
This seems like a good time to mention Adolf Hennecke. People who don't know much history don't know about the campaign that made him famous in the country where he lived.
Put briefly, Adolf Hennecke was the poster boy for a productivity campaign like what management tried to effectuate in the story, and that the author thinks has anything to do with neoliberalism. The thing is that Adolf Hennecke didn't live in a neoliberalist country or work for a neoliberalist company, he lived in East Germany and worked for a VEB, which you may translate as "public corporation". He worked for a state-owned company with a duty to general society rather than any shareholders.
It sounds like you’re trying to argue that because one of these “efficiency” campaigns originated in East Germany that they are really a socialist plot. How do you explain the use of these things in corporations in the US?
No. I think these things are basically something some managers do, and that "management did this because neoliberalism" is as meaningless as "… because communism".
On the back of an envelope, exporting a hundred million drones or so per year ought to fix the current Russian budget shortfall. Less would be needed if they can charge high prices, or if the state produces them and so gets the profit instead of just the taxing the manufacturer's profit. It's quite a volume.
Compare this with Musk, for example: https://www.google.com/finance/quote/CATL:VIE?hl=en&window=6...
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