In today's 'no fucking shit' news, a new study was published that shows, based on historical data, that wealth inequality is never inevitable.
"..economic inequality is not an inevitable result of societal advancement, agriculture, or population. Instead, it seems to be a consequence of political choices and governance structures." 🙄
https://archaeologymag.com/2025/04/study-reveals-inequality-was-never-inevitable
#archaeology #history #government #politics #EconomicInequality
In Marvel's Daredevil: Born Again, villain Wilson Fisk, now Mayor of NYC, leverages a "free port" to orchestrate his criminal empire. This fictional narrative eerily parallels the UK's real-life establishment of free ports—zones with relaxed regulations and tax breaks.
Vox Political delves into this intersection of fiction and reality, exploring how freeports can become havens for illicit activities and economic disparities. Let's question why such models are being adopted in the UK and what it means for the average citizen.
Read Mikes full analysis here:
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/?p=97835
#DaredevilBornAgain #Freeports #UKPolitics #EconomicInequality #MarvelStudios #VoxPolitical
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-tariffs-exemptions-pet-lobbyists-asbestos-confusion-secrecy
Politically Connected Firms Benefit From Trump Tariff Exemptions Amid Secrecy, Confusion
#cronyism #political #trump #cronies #tariff #exemptions #taxes #lobbyists #tariffs #tax #transparency #corruption #incompetence #paytoplay #economy #economics #layoffs #business #TariffExemptions #trade #USChinaTrade #TrumpTariffs #PoliticalConnections #china #us #corruption #SpoilsSystem #SpecialFavors #BigBusiness #TechLobby #EconomicInequality #Accountability #TradeWar #exports #imports #goods #agriculture #farming
The administration’s lack of transparency about tariff exemptions has experts concerned that some firms might be winning narrow carve-outs behind closed doors. “It could be corruption, but it could just as easily be incompetence,” one lobbyist said.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2400698121
"Assessing grand narratives of economic inequality across time"
Cool paper on using house size to infer #EconomicInequality using data from 1,176 sites - and the results point more towards political controls and incentives as factors in the rise of the problem than increases in settlement sizes.
"We must be careful about causality here. We are not proposing that herd animals, metal, or the control of trade routes directly caused the concentration of power and wealth, but rather that when governance institutions and practices were in place that did not check, or even fostered, the consolidation of power, those external resources facilitated the accumulation, monopolization, and personalization of wealth."
Comparing economic inequality between the Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-economic-inequality-roman-empire-han.html
#HackerNews #economicinequality #RomanEmpire #HanDynasty #historicalanalysis #wealthgap
A trio of researchers from Bocconi University, in Italy, the University of Cambridge, in the U.K., and Stanford University, in the U.S., has found that there was more economic inequality under the Han Dynasty than during the Roman Empire. In their study published in the journal Nature Communications, Guido Alfani, Michele Bolla and Walter Scheidel applied modern economic and business tools to the two economies.
Chavis Mármol Dropped a Nine-Ton Olmec Head on a Tesla—Here’s Why
🚗💥🗿 A Tesla Model 3 crushed by a nine-ton Olmec head! Mexican sculptor Chavis Mármol says the piece symbolizes resistance against tech billionaires, calling it a strike against “a sinister figure like Elon Mollusk.”
🚗💥🗿 A Tesla Model 3 crushed by a nine-ton Olmec head! Mexican sculptor Chavis Mármol says the piece symbolizes resistance against tech billionaires, calling it a strike against "a sinister figure like Elon Mollusk."
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