@ingridrobeyns.bsky.social
Political philosopher and inequality economist. Prof @ Utrecht University | Public values (social justice, democracy, sustainability, quality of life). Fair economies, caring societies. #limitarianism
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thank you David! I wonder whether the students' position on this topic are shifting. (I don't teach limitarianism as a matter of principle, so don't know what students think, but have the impression that in the public sphere the plausibility of this view has been shifting over the last few years).
Tickets for the Utrecht event are free but very soon they will all be gone: www.sg.uu.nl/agenda/2026/...
Excellent discussion by @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com on their book Muskism at the Humboldt Universität in Berlin. The room was packed and dozens of people were standing and sitting on the floor. Luckily we booked a larger room in Utrecht for their talk on Friday :)
Waarom? Omdat (1) het rechtvaardiger is, na al die jaren profiteren v/d Nederlandse welvaartsstaat; (2) de diplomatieke kosten te dekken; (3) het de belastingmoraal versterkt; (4) belastingvluchtelingen buiten schot houden het cynisme over de politiek aanwakkert. Dus, een no-brainer, lijkt me.
Volledig terechte analyse van Wouter Leenders over de Nederlandse belastingvluchtelingen. We moeten als land, met onze wetgeving, het 'freeriding' op de belastingsbijdragen van andere landgenoten niet tolereren - dus laat de belastingvluchtelingen ook nog na vertrek inkomensbelasting betalen!
thanks for rectifying, Robin! Amazing that his speech would also have applied to the content of Yellow Letters.
I then have another movie I'll have to see ;-)
also, the movie itself ("Gelbe Briefe/Yellow Letters") is very powerful - highly recommended to anyone, but especially those of us who (still) enjoy the freedom to speak our minds without the risk of persecution.
Stop the bombs! And stand up to Trump and Netanyahu!!
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Bovendien hebben de Parijse economen (Zucman, Piketty, etc.) vaak genoeg gezegd dat dat geen onoverkomelijk probleem is.
Precies: Nederlandse huizenbezitters worden ook belast op een geschatte waarde van hun huis. Als je voor meer dan 60% van de gezinnen de huizenprijzen kan schatten, moet je toch voor de 1% ook hun bedrijfswaarden kunnen schatten?
de auteurs zijn a.s. vrijdag 13/3 te gast bij het Visions for the Future project en Studium Generale UU. Gratis kaartjes voor de lezing 's avonds in de Openbare Bibliotheek van Utrecht hier te krijgen (op=op): www.sg.uu.nl/agenda/2026/...
Elon Musk is niet alleen een redder, clown en slechterik. Hij belichaamt een wereldbeeld: het muskisme.
Voorpublicatie uit het gelijknamige boek van @quinnslobodian.com en @bentarnoff.com.
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Biggest takeaway from this Forum: the centrality on skills (reskilling, upskilling) and competitiveness in the talks of EC-speakers at this event.
(Parallel sessions with mainly by outsiders, and regularly different from tone).
If I were a capitalist, I’d be very happy with this approach.
I just heard a keynote in a parallel session by Maja Göpel @beyond-ideology.bsky.social, which was very interesting - asking the foundational and bigger questions. Very different from the technocratic EU-led keynotes yesterday!
What I learnt from the EU employees who put this together is that they use the space they are given to also bring in other (non-neoliberal) voices into this conference. Several EU plenaries yesterday felt pretty neoliberal, but this second day, with smaller sessions, feels different.
#EuSocialForum
I enjoyed the wealth inequality panel. Great synergy between the contributions by Salvatore Morelli and Aline Muller, and the sociological reflections by Mike Savage, and my philosophical input.
Dit lijkt mij een zeer geschikt onderwerp voor een item op het journaal, een discussie bij de talkshows, of een uitgebreid stuk in de krant. Dit is waarvoor we media in een democratie nodig hebben: om de overheid te controleren, ook op haar contradicties.
If we agree there should be a floor beneath which no one falls, is it unreasonable to ask if there should also be a ceiling?
This week, we’re resharing a conversation with @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social on why placing limits at the top matter just as much as protections at the bottom.
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zeker het bestuderen waard, maar ik ben heel benieuwd naar de doorrekeningen voor verschillende groepen. En de effecten, want het geeft een sterke prikkel voor iedereen om niet te sparen, maar te consumeren. Dus wat als die 8% stijgt naar, zegge 20% en het enige wat je bezit is je huis?
Just spoke to another academic. We have so many unanswered questions, but we need to be patient. 😅 This is a political space, not an academic space. [the end].
PF Manole, Romanian minister speaks of "Competitiveness is right now the bible in Europe", and we need to add the focus of the poor in this bible.
MEP Toussaint: there are 170.000 occupational deaths each year. We needs jobs to be safe.
also:
"Everyone is employable". [not sure that is true; and certainly not to be able to earn a living]
Argues for dignified jobs.
very different questions in Slido for this panel than for earlier panels! Here's one that's not from me:
"non-take-up of social rights could be combatted much better if we'd listen more to the poor people."
ODS: "the reason this does not happen is because they talk in a language that the policy makers do not understand. So my role is to mainly listen, and translate their insights into policy language".
De Schutter: we would save a lot of time if we would co-design our policies by listening to those who suffer from poverty, and how they have troubles to access the social support they should have access to do. They speak of 'lack of decent jobs, lack of money, but also being disempowered'.
conference attendees can put questions to the panel, and someone dared to ask this:
"Why is the Commission not willing to just even consider ‘beyond growth’ approaches to poverty eradication and social justice?" 💥
#notholdingmybreaththatthiswillbeasked
[curious how this post-growth perspective will fall in the panel and the conference!]