The Great Pretender

— I dig Chuck Freund’s insightful account of the problem of Arab myth and ressentiment embodied by Saddam.

@MattBruenig @ryanlcooper @joebenaiah Now show us the privately held wealth inequality chart. 16 minutes ago
@OrinHite @ryanlcooper @joebenaiah Well, it causes a civil war, so nobody gets rich for a good long while. 35 minutes ago
@ryanlcooper @joebenaiah They don't have wealth taxes anymore. You're thinking very wishfully about state capacity,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 37 minutes ago
@ryanlcooper @joebenaiah Or is it just a one-time grab by the governing faction of the state? 39 minutes ago
@ryanlcooper @joebenaiah Again, what's the actual policy? 50% annually on net worth over $x? Real world wealth taxe… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 40 minutes ago

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