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wealth
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Matt Bruenig’s Wealth Calculation – The Rich Gained $21 Trillion, The Poor Lost $900 Billion
The details of anything are tough. Sure, an omelette is just eggs’n’milk’n’butter’n’stuff and yet the number of people…
Haven’t We All Got Rich This Past Century?
Quite the most interesting part of this paper to me is the chart in it. Showing quite how…
History Surprises Again – Germany’s Jews Weren’t Rich Even As The Nazis Plundered
To plunder a particular section of the population is of course vile. It’s not excused by it being…
How can we solve increasing wealth inequality?
Originally published at Quora: “Solve” wealth inequality? Presumably what is meant is lower it which is making some…
20th Century Wealth Redistribution Went To The Upper Middle Classes, Not The Entire Society
Sure, Thomas Piketty tells us that there was distinct wealth redistribution in the 20th century. Something that is…
Fast Fashion – The Idiots Are Complaining That The People Are Getting Rich
The historical human problem has always been that the people were poor – now that we’ve largely solved…
Oh Dear, Piketty’s Numbers Aren’t Right
That Thomas Piketty offered us all an interesting critique of how contemporary capitalism works is interesting. It’s an…
The Billionaires Are Stealing The Wealth Of The Rest Of Us
So The Guardian would have us believe as they breathlessly report on a wealth study from UBS. What…
Losing Your Religion Doesn’t Make You Rich – The Research Is Being Badly Reported
According to science – or according to newspaper reports of the science which is not quite the same…
Millionaires Have 50% Of The World’s Wealth – This Is Normal, Boringly Normal
A number of newspapers are reporting, breathlessly, the news that millionaires have 50% of the world’s wealth. This…