#rentseeking — Public Fediverse posts
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2/ The common playbook for modern businesses of all sizes:
1. Corner the market for an essential good or service like housing, healthcare, food etc.
2. Ask the highest price the client can afford. Obviously no correlation b/w quality and price. It's an essential good - what will they do, not pay ?
3. Inundate client with automated "ad campaigns" like unsolicited emails, invasive spyware and dark patterns.
4. Get them on a rental cycle and increase rent (holy grail) -
2/ The common playbook for modern businesses of all sizes:
1. Corner the market for an essential good or service like housing, healthcare, food etc.
2. Ask the highest price the client can afford. Obviously no correlation b/w quality and price. It's an essential good - what will they do, not pay ?
3. Inundate client with automated "ad campaigns" like unsolicited emails, invasive spyware and dark patterns.
4. Get them on a rental cycle and increase rent (holy grail) -
2/ The common playbook for modern businesses of all sizes:
1. Corner the market for an essential good or service like housing, healthcare, food etc.
2. Ask the highest price the client can afford. Obviously no correlation b/w quality and price. It's an essential good - what will they do, not pay ?
3. Inundate client with automated "ad campaigns" like unsolicited emails, invasive spyware and dark patterns.
4. Get them on a rental cycle and increase rent (holy grail) -
2/ The common playbook for modern businesses of all sizes:
1. Corner the market for an essential good or service like housing, healthcare, food etc.
2. Ask the highest price the client can afford. Obviously no correlation b/w quality and price. It's an essential good - what will they do, not pay ?
3. Inundate client with automated "ad campaigns" like unsolicited emails, invasive spyware and dark patterns.
4. Get them on a rental cycle and increase rent (holy grail) -
2/ The common playbook for modern businesses of all sizes:
1. Corner the market for an essential good or service like housing, healthcare, food etc.
2. Ask the highest price the client can afford. Obviously no correlation b/w quality and price. It's an essential good - what will they do, not pay ?
3. Inundate client with automated "ad campaigns" like unsolicited emails, invasive spyware and dark patterns.
4. Get them on a rental cycle and increase rent (holy grail) -
I got back from a fabulous trip to Montréal a week ago. One thing that has been bugging me: we took our electric car, and upon arrival we needed to charge. The hotel had car charging provided by a local service called HyperCharge. This did not allow me to just stick a credit card in the charger, but required me to download their app and put $10 on it. We needed more than that, so I had to put another $10 when that first one ran out. But they still have $5, because our charge completed before we ran out of money again. And as far as I know they'll have it forever, unless I drive to Montréal again. In what way is this not theft?
Maybe I could have done some investigation and found a different service in a different location that would just take a credit card rather than the whole app and prepay thing. So maybe I'm just paying for the convenience of charging at the hotel. Still, annoying.
There are several US-based charging services which also have a small amount of my money, but I'm more likely to actually get to use that.
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I got back from a fabulous trip to Montréal a week ago. One thing that has been bugging me: we took our electric car, and upon arrival we needed to charge. The hotel had car charging provided by a local service called HyperCharge. This did not allow me to just stick a credit card in the charger, but required me to download their app and put $10 on it. We needed more than that, so I had to put another $10 when that first one ran out. But they still have $5, because our charge completed before we ran out of money again. And as far as I know they'll have it forever, unless I drive to Montréal again. In what way is this not theft?
Maybe I could have done some investigation and found a different service in a different location that would just take a credit card rather than the whole app and prepay thing. So maybe I'm just paying for the convenience of charging at the hotel. Still, annoying.
There are several US-based charging services which also have a small amount of my money, but I'm more likely to actually get to use that.
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I got back from a fabulous trip to Montréal a week ago. One thing that has been bugging me: we took our electric car, and upon arrival we needed to charge. The hotel had car charging provided by a local service called HyperCharge. This did not allow me to just stick a credit card in the charger, but required me to download their app and put $10 on it. We needed more than that, so I had to put another $10 when that first one ran out. But they still have $5, because our charge completed before we ran out of money again. And as far as I know they'll have it forever, unless I drive to Montréal again. In what way is this not theft?
Maybe I could have done some investigation and found a different service in a different location that would just take a credit card rather than the whole app and prepay thing. So maybe I'm just paying for the convenience of charging at the hotel. Still, annoying.
There are several US-based charging services which also have a small amount of my money, but I'm more likely to actually get to use that.
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I got back from a fabulous trip to Montréal a week ago. One thing that has been bugging me: we took our electric car, and upon arrival we needed to charge. The hotel had car charging provided by a local service called HyperCharge. This did not allow me to just stick a credit card in the charger, but required me to download their app and put $10 on it. We needed more than that, so I had to put another $10 when that first one ran out. But they still have $5, because our charge completed before we ran out of money again. And as far as I know they'll have it forever, unless I drive to Montréal again. In what way is this not theft?
Maybe I could have done some investigation and found a different service in a different location that would just take a credit card rather than the whole app and prepay thing. So maybe I'm just paying for the convenience of charging at the hotel. Still, annoying.
There are several US-based charging services which also have a small amount of my money, but I'm more likely to actually get to use that.
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I got back from a fabulous trip to Montréal a week ago. One thing that has been bugging me: we took our electric car, and upon arrival we needed to charge. The hotel had car charging provided by a local service called HyperCharge. This did not allow me to just stick a credit card in the charger, but required me to download their app and put $10 on it. We needed more than that, so I had to put another $10 when that first one ran out. But they still have $5, because our charge completed before we ran out of money again. And as far as I know they'll have it forever, unless I drive to Montréal again. In what way is this not theft?
Maybe I could have done some investigation and found a different service in a different location that would just take a credit card rather than the whole app and prepay thing. So maybe I'm just paying for the convenience of charging at the hotel. Still, annoying.
There are several US-based charging services which also have a small amount of my money, but I'm more likely to actually get to use that.
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@christianschwaegerl Frau Reiche ist eben die verlängerte Werkbank ihrer früheren Arbeitgeber und für das #rentseeking des #trumpeltier …Ich finde, sie und Herr #spahn sind ein perfect match….
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@christianschwaegerl Frau Reiche ist eben die verlängerte Werkbank ihrer früheren Arbeitgeber und für das #rentseeking des #trumpeltier …Ich finde, sie und Herr #spahn sind ein perfect match….
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@christianschwaegerl Frau Reiche ist eben die verlängerte Werkbank ihrer früheren Arbeitgeber und für das #rentseeking des #trumpeltier …Ich finde, sie und Herr #spahn sind ein perfect match….
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@christianschwaegerl Frau Reiche ist eben die verlängerte Werkbank ihrer früheren Arbeitgeber und für das #rentseeking des #trumpeltier …Ich finde, sie und Herr #spahn sind ein perfect match….
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@christianschwaegerl Frau Reiche ist eben die verlängerte Werkbank ihrer früheren Arbeitgeber und für das #rentseeking des #trumpeltier …Ich finde, sie und Herr #spahn sind ein perfect match….
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo98p0ziJvQ
Fuck the #rentSeeking tech giants
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo98p0ziJvQ
Fuck the #rentSeeking tech giants
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo98p0ziJvQ
Fuck the #rentSeeking tech giants
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo98p0ziJvQ
Fuck the #rentSeeking tech giants
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I try to avoid LinkedIn unless I have to go there. But an AgTech investment post celebrating the "Monsanto playbook" as a model to replicate got under my nose badly enough that I had to write about it.
Nobody who knows my work would call me anti-tech. But there's a hard line between technology that increases farmer capability and technology that engineers farmer dependency. The Monsanto playbook is the second kind.
The playbook: own the genetics, bundle the chemicals, capture the data, engineer the debt. Charge the farmer for all of it. Call it innovation.
Also in there: corporate capture of agricultural knowledge, India's farmer suicide crisis, Dark Emu and native grass seeds, and why a loaf of bread can be a political act.
Tech4Good means the farmer gets more capable. Not more dependent.
https://gaggl.com/blogs/2026-06-26-monocultures-dumb-by-design/
#RegenerativeAgriculture #AgTech #Tech4Good #Monocultures #FoodSovereignty #RentSeeking #FoodSystems #RuralAustralia #SlowFood
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I try to avoid LinkedIn unless I have to go there. But an AgTech investment post celebrating the "Monsanto playbook" as a model to replicate got under my nose badly enough that I had to write about it.
Nobody who knows my work would call me anti-tech. But there's a hard line between technology that increases farmer capability and technology that engineers farmer dependency. The Monsanto playbook is the second kind.
The playbook: own the genetics, bundle the chemicals, capture the data, engineer the debt. Charge the farmer for all of it. Call it innovation.
Also in there: corporate capture of agricultural knowledge, India's farmer suicide crisis, Dark Emu and native grass seeds, and why a loaf of bread can be a political act.
Tech4Good means the farmer gets more capable. Not more dependent.
https://gaggl.com/blogs/2026-06-26-monocultures-dumb-by-design/
#RegenerativeAgriculture #AgTech #Tech4Good #Monocultures #FoodSovereignty #RentSeeking #FoodSystems #RuralAustralia #SlowFood
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I try to avoid LinkedIn unless I have to go there. But an AgTech investment post celebrating the "Monsanto playbook" as a model to replicate got under my nose badly enough that I had to write about it.
Nobody who knows my work would call me anti-tech. But there's a hard line between technology that increases farmer capability and technology that engineers farmer dependency. The Monsanto playbook is the second kind.
The playbook: own the genetics, bundle the chemicals, capture the data, engineer the debt. Charge the farmer for all of it. Call it innovation.
Also in there: corporate capture of agricultural knowledge, India's farmer suicide crisis, Dark Emu and native grass seeds, and why a loaf of bread can be a political act.
Tech4Good means the farmer gets more capable. Not more dependent.
https://gaggl.com/blogs/2026-06-26-monocultures-dumb-by-design/
#RegenerativeAgriculture #AgTech #Tech4Good #Monocultures #FoodSovereignty #RentSeeking #FoodSystems #RuralAustralia #SlowFood
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RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@jpl99/116701763295155738
If you can't decouple from big tech, you will pay them a monthly rent.
AI has brought the rent-seeking model from enterprise and SaaS customers to every single individual user of big tech software.
And rents only ever go up.
When big tech commits hundreds of billions to capex for data centers, the only way to satisfy wall street margins is to squeeze the captive tenant.
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RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@jpl99/116701763295155738
If you can't decouple from big tech, you will pay them a monthly rent.
AI has brought the rent-seeking model from enterprise and SaaS customers to every single individual user of big tech software.
And rents only ever go up.
When big tech commits hundreds of billions to capex for data centers, the only way to satisfy wall street margins is to squeeze the captive tenant.
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RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@jpl99/116701763295155738
If you can't decouple from big tech, you will pay them a monthly rent.
AI has brought the rent-seeking model from enterprise and SaaS customers to every single individual user of big tech software.
And rents only ever go up.
When big tech commits hundreds of billions to capex for data centers, the only way to satisfy wall street margins is to squeeze the captive tenant.
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RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@jpl99/116701763295155738
If you can't decouple from big tech, you will pay them a monthly rent.
AI has brought the rent-seeking model from enterprise and SaaS customers to every single individual user of big tech software.
And rents only ever go up.
When big tech commits hundreds of billions to capex for data centers, the only way to satisfy wall street margins is to squeeze the captive tenant.
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RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@jpl99/116701763295155738
If you can't decouple from big tech, you will pay them a monthly rent.
AI has brought the rent-seeking model from enterprise and SaaS customers to every single individual user of big tech software.
And rents only ever go up.
When big tech commits hundreds of billions to capex for data centers, the only way to satisfy wall street margins is to squeeze the captive tenant.
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L’économie de guerre permanente : État, armée, industrie et syndicats
Thomas K. Duncan et Christopher J. Coyne montrent comment la Grande Dépression et la Seconde Guerre mondiale ont fait naître une économie de guerre durable, fondée sur l’alliance entre armée, industrie et syndicats. Une lecture utile pour penser #PermanentWarEconomy, #MilitaryKeynesianism et #RentSeeking. L’article de Thomas K. Duncan et Christopher J. Coyne propose une thèse nette : l’économie de…
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L’économie de guerre permanente : État, armée, industrie et syndicats
Thomas K. Duncan et Christopher J. Coyne montrent comment la Grande Dépression et la Seconde Guerre mondiale ont fait naître une économie de guerre durable, fondée sur l’alliance entre armée, industrie et syndicats. Une lecture utile pour penser #PermanentWarEconomy, #MilitaryKeynesianism et #RentSeeking. L’article de Thomas K. Duncan et Christopher J. Coyne propose une thèse nette : l’économie de…
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And for those that have time to watch the details last nights ABC's #4corners program has the detail and is worth the watch:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-25/the-bhp-files/106720178
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And for those that have time to watch the details last nights ABC's #4corners program has the detail and is worth the watch:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-25/the-bhp-files/106720178
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And for those that have time to watch the details last nights ABC's #4corners program has the detail and is worth the watch:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-25/the-bhp-files/106720178
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And for those that have time to watch the details last nights ABC's #4corners program has the detail and is worth the watch:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-25/the-bhp-files/106720178
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And for those that have time to watch the details last nights ABC's #4corners program has the detail and is worth the watch:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-25/the-bhp-files/106720178
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Sadly, it's just stating the obvious for most people that have an interest in #renewables - but can't be shared widely enough for the people that have their News Limited ;-)
Should be criminal negligence by now, but we all know how the gas&mining lobby pays both sides of politics
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Sadly, it's just stating the obvious for most people that have an interest in #renewables - but can't be shared widely enough for the people that have their News Limited ;-)
Should be criminal negligence by now, but we all know how the gas&mining lobby pays both sides of politics
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Sadly, it's just stating the obvious for most people that have an interest in #renewables - but can't be shared widely enough for the people that have their News Limited ;-)
Should be criminal negligence by now, but we all know how the gas&mining lobby pays both sides of politics
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Sadly, it's just stating the obvious for most people that have an interest in #renewables - but can't be shared widely enough for the people that have their News Limited ;-)
Should be criminal negligence by now, but we all know how the gas&mining lobby pays both sides of politics
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Sadly, it's just stating the obvious for most people that have an interest in #renewables - but can't be shared widely enough for the people that have their News Limited ;-)
Should be criminal negligence by now, but we all know how the gas&mining lobby pays both sides of politics
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“It should never be forgotten that #capitalists generally loathe #capitalism, especially its competitive constraint. They would prefer to make #profits through #rent-seeking and political #extraction without risking their wealth on uncertain investments.” open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...
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“It should never be forgotten that #capitalists generally loathe #capitalism, especially its competitive constraint. They would prefer to make #profits through #rent-seeking and political #extraction without risking their wealth on uncertain investments.” open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...
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“It should never be forgotten that #capitalists generally loathe #capitalism, especially its competitive constraint. They would prefer to make #profits through #rent-seeking and political #extraction without risking their wealth on uncertain investments.” open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...
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The screeching from the usual reactionaries and the boomer fear merchants has already started even though the budget has not even been announced:
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/budget-2026-labor-pitting-australians-against-australians-through-divisive-changes-to-negative-gearing-cgt-expert-warns/news-story/01c5f974228277801b8d46fcf06d4c42Of course, the same crowd that also opposes any fair revenue from the gas industry ripping off the country.
Just remember, today is as good as any to start to finally start the #BoycottMurdoch you've been planning.
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The screeching from the usual reactionaries and the boomer fear merchants has already started even though the budget has not even been announced:
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/budget-2026-labor-pitting-australians-against-australians-through-divisive-changes-to-negative-gearing-cgt-expert-warns/news-story/01c5f974228277801b8d46fcf06d4c42Of course, the same crowd that also opposes any fair revenue from the gas industry ripping off the country.
Just remember, today is as good as any to start to finally start the #BoycottMurdoch you've been planning.
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The screeching from the usual reactionaries and the boomer fear merchants has already started even though the budget has not even been announced:
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/budget-2026-labor-pitting-australians-against-australians-through-divisive-changes-to-negative-gearing-cgt-expert-warns/news-story/01c5f974228277801b8d46fcf06d4c42Of course, the same crowd that also opposes any fair revenue from the gas industry ripping off the country.
Just remember, today is as good as any to start to finally start the #BoycottMurdoch you've been planning.
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The screeching from the usual reactionaries and the boomer fear merchants has already started even though the budget has not even been announced:
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/budget-2026-labor-pitting-australians-against-australians-through-divisive-changes-to-negative-gearing-cgt-expert-warns/news-story/01c5f974228277801b8d46fcf06d4c42Of course, the same crowd that also opposes any fair revenue from the gas industry ripping off the country.
Just remember, today is as good as any to start to finally start the #BoycottMurdoch you've been planning.
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The screeching from the usual reactionaries and the boomer fear merchants has already started even though the budget has not even been announced:
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/budget-2026-labor-pitting-australians-against-australians-through-divisive-changes-to-negative-gearing-cgt-expert-warns/news-story/01c5f974228277801b8d46fcf06d4c42Of course, the same crowd that also opposes any fair revenue from the gas industry ripping off the country.
Just remember, today is as good as any to start to finally start the #BoycottMurdoch you've been planning.
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God gave the land to the people!
#land #georgism #economics #theland #landreform #naturallaw #wealthinequality #rentseeking #naturalresources #landvaluetax -
God gave the land to the people!
#land #georgism #economics #theland #landreform #naturallaw #wealthinequality #rentseeking #naturalresources #landvaluetax -
God gave the land to the people!
#land #georgism #economics #theland #landreform #naturallaw #wealthinequality #rentseeking #naturalresources #landvaluetax -
God gave the land to the people!
#land #georgism #economics #theland #landreform #naturallaw #wealthinequality #rentseeking #naturalresources #landvaluetax -
@nini @ChrisMayLA6 I don't hold with calling voters "idiots". I can't see any merit in that.
Just at the simplest human level, calling people idiots alienates them. Badly. #HilaryClinton tried that, and it didn't work out well for her.
But also, sneering at voters distracts from building the routes to change. How to counter the propaganda of the billionaire media? How to teach people about #imperialism and #RentSeeking and #neoliberalism?
Better to help people rethink than to sneer.
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@nini @ChrisMayLA6 I don't hold with calling voters "idiots". I can't see any merit in that.
Just at the simplest human level, calling people idiots alienates them. Badly. #HilaryClinton tried that, and it didn't work out well for her.
But also, sneering at voters distracts from building the routes to change. How to counter the propaganda of the billionaire media? How to teach people about #imperialism and #RentSeeking and #neoliberalism?
Better to help people rethink than to sneer.
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@nini @ChrisMayLA6 I don't hold with calling voters "idiots". I can't see any merit in that.
Just at the simplest human level, calling people idiots alienates them. Badly. #HilaryClinton tried that, and it didn't work out well for her.
But also, sneering at voters distracts from building the routes to change. How to counter the propaganda of the billionaire media? How to teach people about #imperialism and #RentSeeking and #neoliberalism?
Better to help people rethink than to sneer.
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@nini @ChrisMayLA6 I don't hold with calling voters "idiots". I can't see any merit in that.
Just at the simplest human level, calling people idiots alienates them. Badly. #HilaryClinton tried that, and it didn't work out well for her.
But also, sneering at voters distracts from building the routes to change. How to counter the propaganda of the billionaire media? How to teach people about #imperialism and #RentSeeking and #neoliberalism?
Better to help people rethink than to sneer.
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@nini @ChrisMayLA6 I don't hold with calling voters "idiots". I can't see any merit in that.
Just at the simplest human level, calling people idiots alienates them. Badly. #HilaryClinton tried that, and it didn't work out well for her.
But also, sneering at voters distracts from building the routes to change. How to counter the propaganda of the billionaire media? How to teach people about #imperialism and #RentSeeking and #neoliberalism?
Better to help people rethink than to sneer.
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Aussie #PSA - should be compulsory viewing:
Japanese Government makes more revenue taxing its imports of Australian gas than the Australian Government makes from the export of our gas.
Not only has Australia been literally giving more than half of the gas we export away for free, we now learn that the same Japanese Government that is opposed to us putting a tax on our gas and coal exports, has been raking in billions of dollars per year via their own tax on gas and coal imports.
This video is a clip from the Senate Select Committee on Taxation of Gas Resources, 21/04/2026
Speakers:
Dr Richard Denniss, co-CEO, the Australia Institute
Konrad Benjamin, Founder, Punter’s Politics -
Aussie #PSA - should be compulsory viewing:
Japanese Government makes more revenue taxing its imports of Australian gas than the Australian Government makes from the export of our gas.
Not only has Australia been literally giving more than half of the gas we export away for free, we now learn that the same Japanese Government that is opposed to us putting a tax on our gas and coal exports, has been raking in billions of dollars per year via their own tax on gas and coal imports.
This video is a clip from the Senate Select Committee on Taxation of Gas Resources, 21/04/2026
Speakers:
Dr Richard Denniss, co-CEO, the Australia Institute
Konrad Benjamin, Founder, Punter’s Politics -
Aussie #PSA - should be compulsory viewing:
Japanese Government makes more revenue taxing its imports of Australian gas than the Australian Government makes from the export of our gas.
Not only has Australia been literally giving more than half of the gas we export away for free, we now learn that the same Japanese Government that is opposed to us putting a tax on our gas and coal exports, has been raking in billions of dollars per year via their own tax on gas and coal imports.
This video is a clip from the Senate Select Committee on Taxation of Gas Resources, 21/04/2026
Speakers:
Dr Richard Denniss, co-CEO, the Australia Institute
Konrad Benjamin, Founder, Punter’s Politics
