jeremy_arnold

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   by jeremy_arnold 5y ago

   Grilling is cool. TLDR is I'm a copywriter turned comms consultant. I work mostly with tech companies. My interest in journalism review came just from years of diving into stories on topics I knew and finding them grotesquely misrepres
2. 32.▲
   by jeremy_arnold 5y ago

   OP here. Can you explain to me how calling bullshit by its name is trolling?
3. 33.▲
   by jeremy_arnold 5y ago

   OP here. A few readers mentioned versions of this. Am correcting. (IRS would likely try to stagger in some way. But there's basically no good system for doing this, and you're going to cause roughly the same selling pressure no ma
4. 34.▲
   by jeremy_arnold 5y ago

   OP here. Happy to answer direct questions as you have them. It's a self-funded project. As for trust, I pay bounties for corrections for a reason. And I keep a public list of all past bounties paid. Readers can review and decide how mu
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   by jeremy_arnold 5y ago

   OP here. Just replied to this elsewhere. Step-up is just to avoid double taxation. Estate taxes are at a 2x rate (vs. LTCG) for assets above the baseline ($1m + exemptions etc).
6. 36.▲
   by jeremy_arnold 5y ago

   OP here. ProPublica made the same argument. Maybe I should have covered it. Here's why that step-up doesn't really matter. For round numbers, let's imagine Bezos acquires shares of Amazon at $1 each. Fast forward a few decade