Rainer Kattel: Estonia as an idea and ideology
brilliant https://news.err.ee/1215376/rainer-kattel-estonia-as-an-idea-and-ideology
brilliant https://news.err.ee/1215376/rainer-kattel-estonia-as-an-idea-and-ideology
contemporary expressions of wealth
tl;dr: “It’s time to ban SUVs, tax aviation fuel, and invest in housing renovation and public transport to end fuel poverty, create millions of decent jobs, and cleaner air for all”
“It is mind-boggling that even though emissions have modestly declined over the last 30 years, the emissions of its richest residents have stubbornly continued to rise. The climate problem can’t be solved if luxury consumption continues to grow and if poverty remains unaddressed.”
Estonia also displays the phenomenon where the wealthiest 10 percent of the population emits more CO2 than the poorest 50 percent.
Around a third of Estonia’s residents are estimated to live below the poverty line.
SUVs on Estonia’s roads, many of them purchased via a leasehold agreement including via a company car set-up, are not an uncommon sight, making up around a quarter of new models purchased.
“We challenge abuses of power - and abuses of our biometric data - with a solution based on Transparency, Red Lines and Respect for Humans.”
weil ja hier immer mehr so auf telegram schwren… lieber doch mal signal checken…
Some ideas here for social change, however, based on US analysis.
raise the minimum wage and tie it to inflation
roll back anti-union laws to give workers more leverage against companies that treat them as if they’re disposable
tilt the tax code away from the wealthy
attach benefits to work instead of jobs: For every hour you work, your boss chips in to a fund that pays out when you get sick, pregnant, old or fired. The fund follows you from job to job, and companies have to contribute to it whether you work there a day, a month or a year.
construction workers have an “hour bank” that fills up when they’re working and provides benefits even when they’re between jobs
Hollywood actors and technical staff have health and pension plans that follow them from movie to movie
in low employment / mid to high human resource areas launch a program that simply reimbursed employers for the wages they paid to eligible new hire
improve existing poverty fighting programs and handouts over basic income
one down, one to go. #astutagasi
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i wonder how Estonian post-ww2 history would have materialized if Sweden would have send financial aid to them, instead of caring for the Estonian Refugees in their boats back then or if Canada would have let in only successful entrepreneurs and skilled experts, instead of becoming a home and providing space for an Estonian expatriated cultural community?
have we nothing to offer, not even our empathy? it’s not that there are no role models out there for us to strive for.
digitale realitten
Curious about structures and process, how to rethink ownership of companies. This is one example from the US.
https://race.esa.int/
https://popupcity.net/observations/car-culture-has-run-out-of-fuel-the-post-pandemic-city-will-be-car-free/
Architects Marshall Blecher and Magnus Maarbjerg are on a mission to breathe new life into Copenhagen’s old harbour. They’re working on a floating archipelago that will introduce a new type of public space.
Would be interesting to see something like this in Tallinn.
good stuff
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seems like Helme in his time as a minister has not succeeded in finding the deep state, so he decided to create it himself: