{"id":1677,"date":"2026-03-24T21:08:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T21:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2026-03-24T21:08:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T21:08:35","slug":"avoiding-supporting-the-community-in-which-you-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1677","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding supporting the community in which you live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamiltonnolan.com\/p\/suicidal-bootlicking-as-a-method\">https:\/\/www.hamiltonnolan.com\/p\/suicidal-bootlicking-as-a-method<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A satisfying riposte to the panic over the millionaire income tax recently passed in WA. \u00a0A couple of thoughts:<\/p>\n<p>1. What the article doesn\u2019t describe is: why do these states act this way? Could it be because the legislatures of these states are captured by the oligarchs for whom they enact legislation, rather than the regular people who are hurt by the results? \u00a0How come this happens?<\/p>\n<p>2. This process also describes why we can\u2019t expect oligarchies to fix the climate, and other global catastrophes. \u00a0They will not be overly affected by the crumbling of the climate, because they can mitigate the effects for themselves and their families (perhaps have to forgo the odd skiing vacation, but otherwise \u2026)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.hamiltonnolan.com\/p\/suicidal-bootlicking-as-a-method A satisfying riposte to the panic over the millionaire income tax recently passed in WA. \u00a0A couple of thoughts: 1. What the article doesn\u2019t describe is: why do these states act this way? Could it be because the legislatures of these states are captured by the oligarchs for whom they enact legislation, rather than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}