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Taxes *don’t have to be about revenue*. You can institute a wealth tax because inequality is bad, just like you can tax cigarettes because smoking kills. Inequality, as a social ill, is a problem to solve, not just a source of revenue.
I Read Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty on August 21, 2020
Tom MacWright
So the camera's tilted at an angle. Is it because you're not looking through, you're looking at him?
> Yeah.
Because you don't want him to feel like he's behind the lens, is that why?
> more importantly, I can still hold the camera at the side of my head perfectly steady. But I need the audience to know that I'm paying attention to him, not the camera. What do they call that? A something tilt?
Yeah. Dutch.
> A Dutch tilt. It's a way of letting the audience know that I'm not paying attention to the camera.
Casey Neistat's SECRET to Filmmaking
Digital Spaghetti
I am also constantly disappointed by the weather, but at least the weather doesn't enable third-party cookies.
The Wisdom of James Mickens
Harvard University Gazette
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