Recommend the New Statesman on the other UK tax trap1 - unpaid carers face a cliff edge losing £4,331 the second they make over £10,192 (per year).
This obviously disincentivizes people from working! Also… we know how to create benefit tapers; we don’t need to have cliff edges.
London is the startup capital for non-Americans.2
The modal degree for a cabinet minister is economics.
There’s a class gap in academia. PhD graduates whose parents don’t have PhDs place less well and make less.
Dina Pomeranz lets students from low- and middle-income countries join her global policy analysis class. Ask to join here.
Eni iljazi writes about cities.
She describes why I love cities perfectly: “This is what cities are for: to create bigger and better things, to experiment, to aspire, to push boundaries.”
The share of life spent in retirement has been stable since 2000 - improvements in life expectancy have been offset by later retirements.
It still seems wild that people spend ~50% of their lifespan not working - the first 20 years in education and then another 20 years being retired.
Here’s a website that turns architectural renders into what they will actually look like on a random Tuesday in November.
Greenland sharks live to 450 and have a gestation period of perhaps 18 years.
There is a more famous tax trap at £100,000. All income under £100,000 is taxed at 40% (marginal), all income between £100,000 and £125,140 is taxed at 60% (marginal), and income over £125,140 goes back down to a 45% marginal tax rate.
But if you can move to SF to raise, you’re still probably better off.