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TODAY'S NUGGETS
💰 An easy tax season — for the rich. New data shows the Internal Revenue Service department tasked with reviewing billionaires’ tax returns has shrunk 38 percent since January. The country’s richest earners already evade more than $150 billion in taxes every year, in part because the IRS has deprioritized audits of corporations and the superrich, flagging them for criminal referral at a far lower rate than that of small businesses or the self-employed.
The QWERTY article caught my attention because I learned to type in my teens at school on an old non-electric typewriter. It gave me the ability to get jobs in the early 70’s and as a support staffer in business, I have seen it all - from mag cards to Wang, etc. But I can’t type on my phone with my thumbs! Perhaps us old dinosaurs will need to go extinct before a new thumbs keyboard can take hold? I’m sure sick of hunting and pecking on my phone…even though new tech bugs me these days, I’d be first in line to buy the new keyboard design if trained!