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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: What the hell is "carried interest"; Korea set to break the Samsung dynasty; Disney's writer wage-theft is far worse than reported; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/04/29/wri…

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Later today, I'm helping Bruce Sterling launch "Robot Artists & Black Swans," a book of sf short stories in the Italian "fantascienza" mode, at Austin's Book People!

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What the hell is "carried interest": A scam, obviously, but the real ripoff is preferential tax-treatment of capital gains.



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Back in November, we learned that Disney had pulled a breathtakingly criminal wage-theft manuever on one of science-fiction's most beloved authors, Allan Dean Foster, an elderly cancer-patient caring for his sick wife.

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Here's where things get criminally weird. Disney argued that when they bought out Lucas, Fox, etc, they acquired their assets, but not their liabilities. In other words, they'd acquired the right to sell Foster's work, but not the obligation to pay him when they did.

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For a society to be unequal and stable, it needs a STORY. If you have less-than-enough and your neighbour has more-than-enough, it's natural to ask why you shouldn't take it from them.

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Market societies are, by nature, unequal. Markets produce winner-take-all wealth distributions of great inequality. The winners in markets have guards and cops and courts to help them defend those winnings, but their primary defense is LEGITIMACY.

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