What a treat, in every sense of the word, to be in Munich for the #isiwealthconference2025 @isi-munich.bsky.social

I find that whether the rich behave pro-socially really matters.

Support for taxing the rich goes up when the rich use tax loopholes, treat their workers badly, do not give to charity.

Indicators of merit (coming from a wealthy family, not having a strong work ethic) matter less or not at all.

On the other hand, there's this one.

Here's the main outcome figure. The white bar is the control condition, grey bars are various configurations of receiving information, guessing incomes, and having a contrast with high incomes.

Walking around fancy campus wondering what the coddled minds here are up to... oh

I generally love my adopted country, the US. But I have been increasingly antsy about something I couldn't quite define for years now, and today this sentence came out of nowhere and seemed to sum it all up.

defector.com/the-money-is...

Wonderful new paper alert. I read this a couple of days ago and am still thinking about it. It's a cantankerous but worthwhile take on mainstream US social science explanations for poverty. www.science.org/doi/full/10....