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Inside: The case for a Canadian wealth tax; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I'm at the end of my 24-city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*!
Catch me in #LONDON with RILEY QUINN from #TRASHFUTURE on July 1:
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And in #MANCHESTER at Blackwell's Bookshop on July 2:
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An Evening With Cory Doctorow
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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The case for a Canadian wealth tax: Lessons learned from previous attempts, applicable all over the world.
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Cory Doctorow
2025-06-23 15:11:30
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
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Don't Rank Cuomo by Robert Yang
itch.ioCory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Snapple floods Manhattan with 17.5 tons of frozen kiwi-strawberry slurry nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/…
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Ben Kerr: A Toronto Legend Passes Away
Staff (blogTO)Cory Doctorow
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#15yrsago ASCAP raising money to fight Free Culture memex.craphound.com/2010/06/23…
#15yrsago Original Pac-Man sketches control-online.nl/2010/06/22/i…
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#15yrsago A Canadian author’s perspective on “radical extremism” and copyright memex.craphound.com/2010/06/23…
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Iwatani toont originele schetsen voor Pac-Man - Control Online
Matthijs Dierckx (Control Online)Cory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Gate guarded McMansion suburb in Walt Disney Worldhttps://insidethemagic.net/2010/06/disney-unveils-golden-oak-luxury-homes-offering-a-chance-to-live-in-the-walt-disney-world-resort/
#15yrsago Canadian Heritage Minister declares war on copyright reformers web.archive.org/web/2010062607…
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The Exterminator's Want-Ad - Shareable
Bruce Sterling (Shareable)Cory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Canadian Heritage Minister smears DMCA opponents as “radical extremists” michaelgeist.ca/2010/06/moore-…
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Who are James Moore's "Radical Extremists"? - Michael Geist
Michael GeistCory Doctorow
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#10yrsago GCHQ hacking squad worried about getting sued for copyright violation theintercept.com/2015/06/22/gc…
#10yrsago The Girl With the Parrot on Her Head memex.craphound.com/2015/06/22…
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Spies Hacked Computers Thanks to Sweeping Secret Warrants, Aggressively Stretching U.K. Law
Andrew Fishman (The Intercept)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago You’ll falafel about this horrifying new pita-sized crypto-key-sniffing hack wired.com/2015/06/radio-bug-ca…
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Pluralistic: 23 Jun 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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#5yrsago The real cyberwar is Goliath, slaughtering an army of Davidshttps://pluralistic.net/2020/06/22/jobs-guarantee/#selection-bias
#5yrsago The Case for a Job Guarantee pluralistic.net/2020/06/22/job…
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Pluralistic: 22 Jun 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Saturday's threads: Daniel de Visé's 'The Blues Brothers'; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
2025-06-21 14:06:47
Cory Doctorow
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My last nationally bestselling novel was "The Bezzle," an ice-cold revenge story of high-tech finance crime starring the forensic accountant Martin Hench.
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Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:
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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:
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Signed copies available from Book Soup:
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Both are national bestsellers!
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The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation (Hardcover) | Book Soup
www.booksoup.comCory Doctorow
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
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Cory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* #London: How To Academy with Riley Quinn, Jul 1
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* #Manchester: Picks and Shovels at Blackwell's Bookshop, Jul 2
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* #Manchester: Co-operatives UK Co-op Congress keynote, Jul 4
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* Virtual: ORG at 20: in conversation with Maria Farrell, Jul 16
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* #DC: Enshittification at Politics and Prose, Oct 8
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An Evening With Cory Doctorow
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
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* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
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* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
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Booksmith presents: Cory Doctorow Enshittification
Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.Cory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* Democrats Abroad
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* Science Fiction is EXPOSING Scams and AI Dystopia (Bad Faith)
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Cory Doctorow on Enshittification by Democrats Abroad: The Blue Vote Café
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Cory Doctorow
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I'm at the end of my 24-city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*!
Catch me in #LONDON with RILEY QUINN from #TRASHFUTURE on July 1:
howtoacademy.com/events/cory-d…
And in #MANCHESTER at Blackwell's Bookshop on July 2:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-…
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An Evening With Cory Doctorow
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •"One frequent objection to high taxes is that it encourages capital flight"
No. When I was young, there were all kinds of laws against capital flight. You could only take a small amount of money on a holiday abroad, for example.
These laws were abandoned by the same parties that now use capital flight as an excuse. But that is a lie: if you want to stop capital flight, just reinstate the old laws.
Crookie
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Gary Stevenson has articulated one of the better counter arguments to the capital flight.
The bulk of wealth for the super wealthy is based in tangible assets. So what if a wealthy property owner moves to the Grand Caymans. The land is still in the same place. The same could be sad about the revenue a a corporation collects from its operation in a locality.
They are nothing ultimately without transactions in a locality. Even if they exchange currencies.
Fido
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It is becoming apparent that billionaires are a threat to national security.
So if taxation makes them leave the country: don't threaten me with a good time.
citizenAlex
in reply to Phosphenes • • •More than a threat to national security. It's the billionaires vs the rest of us.
greuh
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I always thought that a wealth tax made more sense than income tax. Some people will be needing all their income just to live. Others may be doing really great things with their extra income. Excess wealth just sits there.
But I am wondering, what thresholds and what rates might be appropriate? Are we talking billionaires or mere millionaires. Bearing in mind that the average house is now over 1 million in many places.
Im thinking a total combined net worth of say 10 million?? Make it progressive so that it taxes billionaires more than the Tenmillionaires.
Stephen Elliott~Buckley
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25% wealth tax/year, dropping to 5% when they're down to $78m
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