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Your Favorite Regulation Is Probably Hurting You (opens the original)
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In Senegal, importing consumer goods means paying customs duties of up to 35 percent. Then you add 18 percent VAT, then the statistical charge, the community levy, and the ECOWAS levy, and before you’ve sold your first product, the government has taken more than half the value of what you brought in.Once you’re past the border, it gets worse. <a href="https://www.enterprisesurveys.org/en/data/exploree
AI Could Make Workers Richer (opens the original)
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Everyone is talking about AI as if it can only mean one thing: ordinary workers getting crushed.Peter St Onge sees it differently.In my conversation with him, he argues that AI may hit desk work first. If many computer tasks become cheaper, work that still requires human hands and human trust may become more valuable.Peter and I also talked about his case against the Federal Reserve. From there, the conversation moved to Bitcoin. His answer on Trump tariffs also surprised me, because it does not
The Pope Is Right About AI. His Solutions Would Make It Worse. (opens the original)
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