{"id":78214,"date":"2012-07-31T06:21:33","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T12:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=78214"},"modified":"2012-07-31T06:21:33","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T12:21:33","slug":"olympic-taurocoprolites-global-warming-pretenders-and-other-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=78214","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Taurocoprolites; Global Warming Pretenders; and Other Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/?p=8745\" target=\"_blank\">Jerry Pournelle<\/a> has some thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>Most interesting to me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The best thing one can do for giant corporations is to thicken the business environment with regulations requiring compliance specialists; the result is to prevent newcomers from entering the business, thus ensuring that the business will be dominated by the existing giants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The same logic applies to tax policy, and this can be recast as: &#8216;The best thing one can do for rich people is to thicken the tax environment with regulations requiring compliance specialists; the result is to prevent newcomers from entering the &#8220;rich people&#8221; business, thus ensuring that the &#8220;rich people&#8221; business will be dominated by the existing wealthy.&#8217; Which is what I&#8217;ve been saying all along about Warren Buffet and his fellow travelers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Pournelle has some thoughts. Most interesting to me: The best thing one can do for giant corporations is to thicken the business environment with regulations requiring compliance specialists; the result is to prevent newcomers from entering the business, thus ensuring that the business will be dominated by the existing giants. The same logic applies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-think-about-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78215,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78214\/revisions\/78215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}