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How AI automation can fulfill Thomas Piketty's predictions on rising economic inequality, and why highly progressive taxes on capital can help slow the spiral (Philosopher Count)
https://philiptrammell.substack.com/p/capital-in-the-22nd-century

Capital in the 22nd Century
Piketty was wrong about the past. He’s probably right about the future.

Why Washington, D.C., the U.S. capital, won’t host 2026 World Cup matches https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6841652/2025/12/02/2026-world-cup-washington-dc-usa-capital-fifa/

Meanwhile, in Hell…
#USA #capitalism https://neopaquita.es/@Shine_McShine/11546982730643344…

One Bold Way the Raiders Can Capitalize on the Draft https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-one-bold-way-can-capitalize-draft

Very decent year-end reading recommendations, featuring the contradictions of capitalism and whodunnits: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-12-30/capitalism-and-crime-books-that-got-me-through-the-year

For railway enthusiasts and ruin hunters alike,
these so-called "phantom stations" that have ceased service
offer a glimpse into Tokyo’s past.
Hidden from daily view and often closed to the public, they mark moments of transition in the capital’s transit history
— from the early years of railway and subway construction to the rapid postwar rebuild.
More than curiosities, they stand as weathered industrial records of how Tokyo has expanded, reconfigur…

Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell
A sealed 1930s subway platform beneath Shimbashi Station still holds traces of what the capital looked like before the war.

"Their inaction, their neutrality, their “pragmatic” accommodation—every golden plaque presented to Trump, every settlement paid to avoid retaliation, every silent acquiescence to constitutional destruction—all of this is discrediting capitalism in the eyes of ordinary Americans in ways that no socialist organizer could achieve. They are acting like the cartoon villains Marxists make them out to be"

How America’s Business Elite Became Their Own Marxist Caricature
There is a moment in every authoritarian takeover when the business elite must choose between principle and profit, between defending the system that made their wealth possible and accommodating th…

Copenhagen-based Formalize, whose compliance software serves organizations in 80 countries, raised a €30M Series B co-led by Acton Capital and Blackfin Tech (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/10/28/formalize-raises-eur30m-to-a…

Formalize raises €30M to advance compliance solutions across Europe
Copenhagen-based Formalize has raised €30 million in a Series B co-led by Acton Capital and Blackfin Tech, with participation from West Hill Capital and CIBC Innovation Banking. The company has raised €50 million to date.Across Europe, organisations face an increasingly complex, interconnected regulatory landscape, with evolving rules reshaping expectations for information security, resilience, and reporting across industries and regions. Formalize, addresses this with a single platform…

Capital Games and Growth Equilibria
Ben Abramowitz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00472 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.00472

Capital Games and Growth Equilibria
We examine formal games that we call "capital games" in which player payoffs are known, but their payoffs are not guaranteed to be von Neumann-Morgenstern utilities. In capital games, the dynamics of player payoffs determine their utility functions. Different players can have different payoff dynamics. We make no assumptions about where these dynamics come from, but implicitly assume that they come from the players' actions and interactions over time. We define an equilibrium concept called "gr…

Buying a House in your 30s
#Wojak #Capitalism