Will Trump bring peace, or more bombs? Shady speculators seem to bet right every time | Nesrine Malik The president may not be benefiting directly from betting markets, but he has encouraged a culture that treats politics like a casino floor, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

There also is an inequality of access to information required for investors.

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Median family income in the US increased from $10,000 in 1971 to $106,000 today, a 10x increase.

However, the median cost of homes increased from $25,000 to $445,000, a 17x increase.

And the average cost of healthcare per person increased from $350 to $14,600, a 42x increase.

THIS IS INSANE.

Graph showing income inequality for Britain from 1910-2019 which fell towards the mid-1970s and then rose again. Graph also shows that the incomes of the richest people fell most sharply, something that needs to happen again if we are to reduce inequality in this century.

📢 INEQUALITY GRAPHIC OF THE WEEK (No.5) 🔽

When we reduced inequality a century ago it was the incomes of the richest that had the steepest falls. This needs to happen again...

Source: Prof. Danny Dorling
Peak Injustice: Solving Britain’s Inequality Crisis
www.dannydorling.org/books/peakin...

It happens that in a democracy leaders are elected who enrich themselves with the citizens’ tax dollars, if the voters of these leaders are sufficiently dumb or/and evil.

I read the paper.

Oops.

PS: I am a numbers guy. I like a paper by Carroll about a PR voting algorithm. When digging into Carroll‘s history, I learned about the PDF debate. So I searched serious academic work on that. There is almost none.

If I remember well (I saw that paper 5 years or so ago), the paper had a strange title and was written in a way which fans of Carroll initially might like. But I think that at the end of the paper were conclusions which Carroll fans might not feel comfortable with.

I saw an academic paper in the Internet which states that in the eyes of Carroll’s contemporaries he went beyond what was “customary” in his time. If I find it, I’ll tell you.

Was that a paper which exonerated Carroll?

Thank you. That article by Sarah K. Elliot is quite good.

Sure.

Yes. But Trump soon will be irrelevant. The GOP and the billionaires who support them might even dump Trump if he isn‘t useful to them anymore.

If that is so, then Trump isn‘t the problem, but his followers are. They are to Trump what too many German Nazis (active or as “mitläufer”) were to Hitler.

Solidarische Leistungsgesellschafft geht auch.

@mementomori4950.bsky.social, thank you for the like. I got blocked for my post.

Are there fake accounts on BlueSky which want to discredit the Left by posting fake quotes?

Nice try. You learned too much from Karoline Leavitt. 😉

Obviously there is no Trump quote with the wording posted by @stoptheshitnado.bsky.social. Please check this with Snopes.

MAGA hates fact checking. How about us from the left? Did anybody in this thread below stoptheshitnado’s post check whether Trump really said what stoptheshitnado had posted?

Trump says disgusting stuff every day. But there is no evidence that Trump said what the meme posted by @stoptheshitnado.bsky.social said. We should stick to the truth (the exact wording) when fighting against lying Republicans. Otherwise we are not better than them.

The Squalor of the Epstein Class Happy Presidents Day

The Squalor of the Epstein Class
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With regard to the increasing moral and pecuniary corruption of the Republican Trump administration and the bad cops installed by them, I am also increasingly unsure about whether Epstein killed himself.

As for Epstein still being alive wheresoever, you might want to check with @snopes.com

Depends. I used public AI to generate Haskell public domain code for a free application which computes inequality measures.

I use Haskell, because with this programming language it is easy for me to check whether the AI made mistakes.

bsky.app/profile/ineq...

Graph showing international comparison of child poverty rates from 2012-14 to 2019-21. The UK is the worst performer of all the nations with a proportional increase of around 20%.

📢 INEQUALITY GRAPHIC OF THE WEEK (No.2) 🔽

The UK has a terrible recent record on child poverty, the worst of all the nations below, worsened by the 2-child benefit cap from 2017.

Source: Prof. Danny Dorling
Peak Injustice: Solving Britain’s Inequality Crisis
www.dannydorling.org/books/peakin...

The Green surge shows British politics has reached a turning point - and it has surprisingly little to do with Zack Polanski | Aditya Chakrabortty At a party event in a school hall in Lewisham, people told me how disillusionment with Labour has led to this moment, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

🚨 THIS ➡️ "While the rest of us headed into years of immiseration, the filthy rich carried on regardless – and they did so with the willing aid of the centre-left elite, whether Peter Mandelson or the French Socialists or the US Democrats." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The graph doesn't depict the Gini coefficient. But it's true that the inequal distribution of incomes and of wealth has been increasing quit a bit.

Climbing US Inequality Continues Welcome back to reporting on news that is: significant, factual, and apolitical. And welcome back to a familiar theme. “Climbing US Inequality”, PNTP, January 2025 (Does that mean wealt…

Climbing US Inequality Continues
PNTP may be back. Stay tuned.
"Wealth inequality (as measured by the Gini Coefficient) was declining through the 60s and 70s. As of circa 1980, wealth inequality rebounded from under 35 to a new record of 42." pretendingnottopanic.com/2026/02/02/c... #PNTP

To unterstand the Gini coefficient, one needs to know how it was computed (description of the quantiles etc.). But graphs like the one shown below still can be used to illustrate the change of that measure over time.

Nearly 400 millionaires and billionaires call for higher taxes on super-rich Mark Ruffalo, Brian Eno and Abigail Disney sign letter timed for WEF in Davos saying wealthy are buying political influence

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In Davos, the rich talk about ‘global threats’. Here’s why they’re silent about the biggest of them all | Ingrid Robeyns Economic inequality is at the heart of all humanity’s major problems, but the wealthiest refuse to confront a system that benefits them, says economist and historian Ingrid Robeyns

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