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Ending fascists’ grip on power not only requires voting them out, but replacing them with the right people.
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Polls regularly show broad public support for having our wealthiest pay quite a bit more at tax time. But we haven’t had critical mass on taxing the rich within our political class – until now.
America’s billionaires have suddenly realized they just may be facing an existential crisis: A good chunk of the American people, they now understand, would rather billionaires not exist.
Americans pay a steep price for not spreading their wealth around as well as other developed countries.
A new global CEO pay comparison, the most rigorous and comprehensive yet, demolishes the standard-issue corporate rationale for America’s over-the-top executive compensation.
Ten years down the road, 20 years down the road, how will the lives that Americans lead change if this Republican tax plan gets to shape our national future? Not for the better, say the world’s most prolific inequality analysts.
Comparing the U.S. to other more egalitarian-minded developed nations can give us a vivid sense of the high toll that inequality exacts.
The incomes of America’s affluent are pulling away from the rest of the nation, as households in the top 5 percent saw their incomes in 2016 increase over twice as fast as households in the bottom 20 percent.
With a new Congress and White House committed to wealth’s concentration, we’ll sorely miss the scholar who dedicated his life to documenting wealth’s maldistribution.
Our super rich have their own personal trainers, chefs, and pilots. Maybe we should give them their own personal tax collectors.
Recent research published about the Great Recession adds to the already clear evidence that rising inequality translates into nearly all of today's winnings going to the wealthy.
Ending fascists’ grip on power not only requires voting them out, but replacing them with the right people.
Gerontocracy endangers democracy.
One pressing question is how the worldwide outrage might, and could, spread to his other business interests, not least his largest interest: SpaceX.
There is a real human cost behind cold, calculated “efficiency.”
Musk's unelected role at the forefront of U.S. government, and his company's near monopolisation of satellite internet communications, increases his global political and economic power grab, and attacks on democracy.
A rug pull occurs when a ‘meme’ or ‘shit’ coin is created, investors pour in, and the price spikes — at which point the early stakeholders sell and tank the coin’s value, as happened with the $TRUMP token.
Ending fascists’ grip on power not only requires voting them out, but replacing them with the right people.
Gerontocracy endangers democracy.
One pressing question is how the worldwide outrage might, and could, spread to his other business interests, not least his largest interest: SpaceX.
There is a real human cost behind cold, calculated “efficiency.”
In many European countries, the far right holds or shares power. Democracy is in crisis.
If Trump indeed tanks your 401(k) to make himself and his friends even richer, the opposition party should make that the centerpiece of their attack heading into next year’s election.
Yarvin saw the “red pill” as the realization that the Enlightenment ideals he came to associate with “the cathedral” and democracy are actually a poison leading to societal decadence and decline.
As the American public continues to publicly stand up to the administration, Trump’s grip on power will eventually slip.
It is clear that authoritarian fascists, in the United States and elsewhere, do not want education that promotes critical thinking.
There is a real human cost behind cold, calculated “efficiency.”
Musk's unelected role at the forefront of U.S. government, and his company's near monopolisation of satellite internet communications, increases his global political and economic power grab, and attacks on democracy.