To shut down the international system of wealth-hiding and tax evasion would not be complex. The difficult part is not the writing of new laws, but to get them adopted.

I usually group lawful tax avoidance and illegal tax evasion together under the term "tax dodging" because, morally and structurally, they are very similar. They often function through the same intermediary countries.

*Occupy Wall Street swept the world and achieved a lot, even if it may not feel like it.*

I felt sympathy with Occupy Wall Street, but was disappointed that it didn't lead to campaigns of a form that I could effectively support.

Legal effects of cultural wrinkles exclude the property of some black families in the US from the aid that might repair flooded their houses.

This is a short-term issue, because most of those houses cannot be kept operational in the long term. As floods get worse, eventually the house will succumb.

Global heating disasters will cost Australia an enormous amount, estimated at 73 billion dollars (Australian dollars, I am guessing) per year by 2060, even in the scenario where we curb global heating.

Since global heating often goes faster than was predicted, we should take that as a lower bound.

Even in Singapore, people are bothered by an increase in the already-pervasive surveillance.

Singapore's government says the robots will not try to identify people _during the trial of these robots_. Perhaps it's true, but so what?

I am in favor of reminding people to keep their distance and wear masks. Identifying them is another matter -- it moves towards a society in which unsurveilled activity is impossible.