As the #inequalitycrisis comes to a head, something is afoot. Whatever happens, “the fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves”
#taxtherich #socialcontract
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A stronger safety net enabled Americans to take more risks, an understated benefit of an improved #socualcontract when thinking #beyondgdp. —I’m thinking it works globally too
#inequalitycrisis
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A post-US world order is already emerging, fueled by the #inequalitycrisis on top of unforced errors made by the Trump administration
#geopolitics content from @weforum.org:
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The only thing stupider than the #inequalitycrisis is how within reach the solutions are. All that’s standing in our way is political will, and a mentality shift from entitlement to #abundance
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The #inequalitycrisis is masking the degree of problems “average” people have: the wealthiest people distort the averages in econometrics
A bit of #math untangles the narrative 🧩 to provide a clearer picture of our #economy —and who(m) it’s working for
Interesting to find this wrinkle when researching #inequality earlier today: even wealth can’t save the wealthy from the #health effects of a broken economic and political system
We really are all in this together: #inequalitycrisis
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“Zero-sum politics.” “Binary thinking.” “The #affordability crisis.” The #housingcrisis. Layoffs. AI Anxiety
The #socialcontract is what all these have in common, fueled by the #inequalitycrisis and the insatiable greed of #billionaires
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The economic principle involved is artificial scarcity: in a historic period of #abundance, record #inequality has people competing over smaller slices of the pie over time
Humanitarian groups call it the #inequalitycrisis
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When I post about the #economy and the #inequalitycrisis in #tech, I sometimes forget that customers are losing out too, not just workers
#latecapitalism isn’t working for anyone
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This was during the “white-collar recession,“ during a growing economy and record profits—even shareholders are being screwed over
#inequalitycrisis #affluenza #socialcontract #tech
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“Two-thirds of Gen Z and millennials said that they aspire for extreme wealth not for success, but for security in an increasingly unstable economy”
#billionaires #inequalitycrisis #socialcontract
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This Thanksgiving, let’s talk turkey 🍗 about how we can get more people fed in the Age of #AI
#inequalitycrisis #socialcontract #affordability #tech
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Maybe people don’t pay attention to #inequality or the #inequalitycrisis, but they know what #affordability is
#politics
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The out-of-control wealth of Boomers—and out-of-control Boomers—coming into sharper focus in recent #media coverage of the #inequalitycrisis, including from a surprising source: one of Rupert Murdoch’s own news outlets
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More than 85 millionaires join campaign to tax the super-rich
#TaxTheRich #MillionairesForTax #WealthTax #EconomicJustice #InequalityCrisis #SuperRich #GlobalEconomy #ProgressiveTaxation #FairShare #WealthInequality #SocialJustice #PolicyChange
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At a time when Americans are already facing record high costs, President Trump’s 50-year mortgage proposal may double the amount of interest being paid to banks
The #inequalitycrisis is already here, and it can get a lot worse
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They didn’t blink when food stamps were cut off, but don’t you dare mess with their private jets
#climateinequality #inequalitycrisis
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“People are angry after having faced [artificial] scarcity amid plenty for too long. Rebuilding democratic power requires addressing the enormous economic power imbalances that have accumulated over decades”
#inequalitycrisis #abundance
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The problem with capitalism is that eventually you run out of people to enrich yourself from
(Margaret Thatcher, rephrased)
#inequalitycrisis #latecapitalism #socialcontract
Required reading for how we got here: foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/25/d...
#inequalitycrisis #fascism #history
I don’t see any other way the #abundance agenda can work
If we are going to build our way out of the #housingcrisis, then the working poor and middle class need a way to lock in their gains the same way the wealthy did
#inequalitycrisis #politics
#climateinequality is the most preventable part of the #inequalitycrisis:
Poorer countries (the Global
South) don’t have the resources for #infrastructure #resilience, and it’s cheaper to build it there than in wealthier countries
As Gen Z faces an unprecedented jobs crisis, which I wrote about in another thread about the #inequalitycrisis, it’s not much better for the rest of us
Adam Smith envisioned moral actors growing economies over time, not hoarding cash piles
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