David Sligar
@davidsligar
ex Treasury and min adviser, occasional poster on welfare states and egalitarian public finance.
goofball article. can't do labour-saving tech in the private sector bc profits to capitalists. can't do it in the public sector because marxists aren't in control. this doesn't just oppose AI, it opposes the past 250 years of technological progress. jacobin.com/2026/07/ai-n...
Any at-home assessment of knowledge or problem solving is completely meaningless as almost everybody cheats. Actually it’s worse than meaningless, because it sorts against the minority of high integrity students. Absurd that unis are persisting with it. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
100 items of dumb guff and doesn’t even mention the one substantive anti-poverty policy they did - repealing the two child benefit limit
we have a goofball “retirement income” system www.news.com.au/finance/supe...
perhaps most striking, given popular concerns, they were much less likely to flag the AI responses as potentially harmful or misleading than the human ones.
good piece, among other things addresses a perennial discourse fallacy around consumption taxes www.bevansadvocate.com/p/notes-on-c...
Matt Bruenig's use of AI for union-side labour law is some of the most interesting and valuable AI work going on. His new book takes in over 10,000 cases, the scale of which simply would not have been possible without AI.
A quarter of Jewish Americans - and nearly half under 35 - favour replacing Israel and Palestine with a single state that is “neither Jewish nor Palestinian”. “From the river to the sea”, as the line goes. jewishvoters.org/wp-content/u...
Strange piece. Prof Holden thunders about a "productivity tax" that "punishes high productivity businesses" by imposing "vastly different effective capital gains tax rates". Except it's not true. His numbers rely on the wrong denominator and money illusion.
Claire Lehmann writing on tax for the Oz appears unaware of the beneficiary tax offset or the low income tax offset.
using Services Australia to means test capital gains tax concessions lmao
perfect snapshot of the property-owner welfare state: nurse 1 has $30k urgent dental expenses 2 asks personal finance guru how to pay 3 is “cash strapped” but has investment properties 4 hates capital gains tax, doesn't want to sell 5 barefoot investor advises never to touch precious super
have to chuckle at the widely held view that, if we actually obtain fully automated communism, the masses demand that the state assign them objectively pointless jobs. little tasks to keep occupied, like we give to toddlers. 1) it wouldn't actually happen 2) if it did it would be very bad.
"It's not a welfare scheme... It's an invaluable piece of social insurance." What do those words mean exactly? What information is communicated by saying it's not a welfare scheme?
hurtling towards global depression and geopolitical chaos, we have clowns at the helm
ai critics need to get the story straight - is it always instantly recognisable slop? Or so outstanding as to push the outer limit of student capability? real talk: no one truly knows, not at a level of confidence required to legitimate punishment, whether via formal misconduct or bad marks
4yo: can you please me this? I don’t care if it’s boring, i’ll be an adult then.
as it gets hotter and hotter, the anti-shorts norm will become increasingly problematic. could really use some central government policy to address
what a timeline when the Democrat presidential front runner is openly leaning in to looksmaxing critique from toxic right wing manosphere influencers