If you haven't seen politizane's 2013 video on #wealth #inequality in America, it's been updated for 2026, and is being followed up by three new videos, the last of which comes out on September 30. The first two new videos are out, on #income inequality.
As a Georgist, allow me to point out that we already know the solution, because Henry George wrote all about it in "Progress and Poverty", all the way back in 1879.
#USpol #VTpolhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GxlL5-0m_g
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Vaughan Tomlinson (Guardian cartoons) on the abiding truth of the super rich....
#inequality #wealth #politics
Wealthy mfs telling u to suffer... 😒Meanwhile, they're robbing Peter AND Paul, AND taking welfare in the form of subsidies from the #government in order to stay filthy rich. This is what happens when u run government like a business.
#trash #economy #wealth #outofcontrol #democracy
Billionaire Cheater Steve Ballmer: “At His Level of Wealth, Societal Ethics No Longer Register”
A finance expert and Fortune 500 therapist examine the potential motivations of billionaire cheater Steve Ballmer and his subordinates. Unsurprisingly, people who have enough money to do literally anything they want do not evaluate risk the same way as the rest of us. Just another sign that wealth hoarding is a mental illness, imo.
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This is why I read @pluralistic@mamot.fr He's so good at succinctly summing up important high-level concepts and then connecting them with the current problems we face.
#capitalism #wealth #oligarchy
92% of wealthy Americans are changing their financial plans because of this trend--and it's reshaping how founders exit
https://www.fastcompany.com/91574115/92-percent-wealthy-americans-changing-financial-plans-because-trend-reshaping-founders-exit
#Finance #Business #Wealth
As many are priced out of buying, the renter-owner wealth gap is wider than ever
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/28/nx-s1-5853585/as-many-are-priced-out-of-buying-the-renter-owner-wealth-gap-is-wider-than-ever
#Economy #Housing #Wealth
An open letter signed by 120 millionaires asked the new Prime Minister today to increase their taxes, joining the public in their demands to ensure “extreme wealth is taxed fairly to reduce inequality both at home and abroad... We’re not talking about higher taxes on those who get up and go to work for their income every day, but on the very richest whose income is derived from the wealth they hold,”
Organised by the Patriotic Millionaires UK group, they called on Mr Burnham to help Britain “succeed,” adding: “Success requires investment and a primary source of untouched capital investment is sitting with us, in untaxed potential....Paying your fair share is a basic British value, but so many ordinary people are already paying more than they can afford. ...To live up to our national values our new government must raise taxes on extreme levels of wealth for a fairer, better, more hopeful Britain.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/we-can-afford-it-britain-based-millionaires-tell-burnham-tax-us-more
#Wealth #UKpolitics
Get inside access to the new super-elite: The tech billionaires
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002z1j2?at_mid=CPeN9Np5Nr&at_campaign=The_Tech_Billionaire_Takeover&at_medium=display_ad&at_campaign_type=owned&at_nation=NET&at_audience_id=SS&at_product=iplayer&at_brand=m002z1j2&at_ptr_name=bbc&at_ptr_type=media&at_format=image&at_objective=consumption&at_link_title=The_Tech_Billionaire_Takeover&at_bbc_team=BBC
#Tech #Business #Wealth
This Shortcut to Private-Equity Riches Is Minting Young Millionaires
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/this-shortcut-to-private-equity-riches-is-minting-young-millionaires-095ffc77?mod=rss_markets_main
#Finance #Investing #Wealth
Ken Paxton Bought 3 Utah Condos, Adding to a $9 Million Real Estate Portfolio
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/us/paxton-vacation-condos-wealth.html
#USPolitics #RealEstate #Wealth
“in 1982, the first year Forbes compiled its list of the 400 #richest #Americans, the combined wealth of the 400 was only $92B. In 2025 it was $6.6T. Even adjusting for inflation, the growth of #wealth at the top has dwarfed gains … for the average American” open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Democracy in an Age of Powerma...
Outstanding illustration of the difference between Average and Median, and how important that difference is. Very, very rich people are dragging up the average in some countries and making it look like everyone there has more income.
#math #wealth #income #TaxTheRich
Get inside access to the new super-elite: The tech billionaires
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002z1j2?at_mid=CPeN9Np5Nr&at_campaign=The_Tech_Billionaire_Takeover&at_medium=display_ad&at_campaign_type=owned&at_nation=NET&at_audience_id=SS&at_product=iplayer&at_brand=m002z1j2&at_ptr_name=bbc&at_ptr_type=media&at_format=image&at_objective=consumption&at_link_title=The_Tech_Billionaire_Takeover&at_bbc_team=BBC
#Tech #Business #Wealth
We are not Europoors.
The median wealth of US citizens is 28th position. Almost all Euro countries, and all other advanced economies place above it.
The median UK citizen has twice the wealth of a median US citizen.
The reason is that USA today has wealth inequality on the level of absolute monarchies like Saudi-Arabia, and kleptocracies like Russia.
Eurozone is doing great for regular people. USA is worse than the gilded age now.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kzFUd8uj7pA
#wealth #statistics #inequality
The US is NOT a wealthy country: This is the real data
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U.S. ownership in capital markets by wealth level
The wealthiest 1% of earners in the United States own more than half of the shares of capital markets.
#America#wealth#inequality
Money Explained
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What is Wealth? The Earth, water, air, fruit, and all the things on Earth. Visualize Wealth as a disk 🌎
What is Money? It's the allocation of wealth, per person. Visualize Money as a pie chart overlaid on 🌎
How much money you have is represented by a sector, your slice 🍕of the big 🥧
What does the Money chart look like? Trillionaires and Billionaires have huge slices, you and I have thin slices. And the poor, saddled with debt, are not even on this chart, because a pie chart cannot represent negative numbers.
The Money system is broken.
What is Inflation? It's when the Fed can print more money arbitrarily, inflate their own slice, and squeeze down everyone else's purchasing power.
Fiat money is broken. It amounts to the Banker in a game of Monopoly, giving themselves an unfair advantage. It's illegal self-dealing.
Nobody ever earned a trillion dollars, or even a billion. They stole the fruit of other people's labor, then used that money to hide the theft, whitewash the crime with media, and gaslight people into believing that they are millions of times smarter / more talented / hard-working than the masses, and somehow deserve to eat millions of meals everyday to feed their precious, indispensable genius 🧠 brains.
#Earth #Wealth #Money #Trillion #Trillionaire #ElonMusk #SpaceX #economy #finance #economics #psychology
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I think wealth equity should be a fundamental human right.
Billionaires should be held accountable for hoarding extreme wealth.
#TaxTheRich #wealth #money #inequality #HumanRights
