2/20/2026 at 2:28:24 PM
by xnx
2/20/2026 at 3:30:58 PM
This is currently a problem in my country. The government needs money to buy tanks and guns. The poor don't have anything to tax, the rich cannot be taxed- so that leaves the folks in the middle.We are living in sad times. Historically when a country got itself into a life or death struggle all the rich people handed over their jewellery to fund the war. Now they fly to Dubai or Bern.
by TitaRusell
2/20/2026 at 3:11:03 PM
The Overton Window is really shifting if the WSJ is publishing stuff like this.by ceejayoz
2/20/2026 at 3:54:41 PM
For everyone's sake, I hope you're correct. A quick scan of the article's comment section is enough to seriously curb one's optimism, though. I don't know what the demographic makeup of participants in WSJ's comment threads is, but the views expressed are surprisingly homogenous in both substance and tone.I like to challenge myself with a little "game" in which I attempt to guess the most commonly expressed opinions in WSJ comments based solely on the parent article title; it isn't a particularly difficult game.
by NietzscheanNull
2/20/2026 at 4:21:25 PM
I used to work IT at a newspaper.98% of the comments were made by a handful of super-posters, and that was before AI hit the world.
by ceejayoz