"The Case for California’s Billionaire Wealth Tax", today’s NYT Op-Ed from Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez: https://web.archive.org/web/20260526122143/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/05/26/opinion/wealth-tax-california-billionaire.html
The iceberg images are especially striking. 78% of Zuckerberg's, Page's, Brin's, Huang's wealth accumulation is “underwater” .
#wealthTax #CGT #taxTheRich #California #wealth #money #accumulation #inequality #inequalities #households #Zuckerberg #MarckZuckerberg #LarryPage #SergeyBrin #JensenHuang #Meta #Google #Nvidia #AIBubble #Zucman #Saez
"If you’re broke or close to it, the first $100,000 of wealth has incredible utility. If you’ve already got $10M, you may barely notice another $100K."
A ranking of countries by average personal wealth utility: https://wealtheconomics.substack.com/p/is-a-more-broadly-prosperous-country
#wellBeing #wealth #money #accumulation #taxes #macroEconomics #inequality #inequalities #households #taxTheRich #redistribution #reallocation #Norway #NL #Taiwan #Canada #Belgium #Switzerland #Australia #Denmark
One in a thousand: The European countries where the ultra-rich earn the most.
The richest 0.1% in Europe receive about 4.5% of all income, but their share varies widely between countries.
#Inequalities #Billionaires #IncomeDistribution #Wealth #Europe
New issue: Wellbeing and Archaeology.
This collection of articles shows the power of heritage-led #wellbeing and how it can help progress the democratisation of #heritage, diversify #engagement and help address societal #inequalities.
Monckton, L. 2026 Transforming lives through archaeology: civil society, social justice and heritage https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.73.1
Gradinarova, D. 2026 Heritage and social prescribing - Historic England's learnings from pilots and collaborative work across sectors 2023-2024 https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.73.2
James, A. and Austin, B. 2026 Cultural immersion into maritime heritage: Our experiences in using maritime heritage to enhance wellbeing https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.73.3
Croucher, K., Bates, C.R. et al 2026 Place, Identity and Wellbeing: Bradford and Beyond https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.73.4
Hutcheson, A., Melvin, C. et al 2026 The Later Prehistoric Norfolk Project: wellbeing, art and archaeology https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.73.5
Lewis, C., Siriwardena, N. et al 2026 "It makes me feel happy that we did it and what came out of it": Recent research into the association of heritage participation with wellbeing https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.73.6
Sofaer, J., D'Cruz, L. et al 2026 Wellbeing Through Heritage for NHS Staff. Heritage Engagement and Participant Choice in the HerWellNHS Project https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.73.7
Bray, J. and Payne-Lunn, S. 2026 Worcester Life Stories https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.73.8
This article discusses the need for protective factors for health and wellbeing through heritage and archaeology-led practice, and the range of benefits attributed to such practice in specific circumstances working with communities with unmet needs. It introduces the volume by considering the articles within it, in relation to the Historic England framework on the six ways that heritage can deliver wellbeing. It covers the broad scope of how adding a wellbeing lens to our work can promote the democratisation of heritage and link to social justice objectives, and articulates, in more detail, the Rejuvenate project, which works through archaeology to support young people. This example shows how the foundations of feasibility and planning, and the nature of evaluation, can provide evidence on the specificity of impact and degree of benefit to individuals needed to ensure we make the case for the public benefit and enormous potential for the social impact of heritage and archaeology.
…symmetry isn’t just a preference for “pretty” shapes. Contents Introduction The HM-AM-GM-QM Inequality The two circles The Semicircle The Container The 3D container The Sum of Squares Inequality Nesbitt’s Inequality Conclusion Introduction While I was randomly browsing the web, I came across this nice picture: Roland H. Eddy, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, 1985 And it tickled my imagination a little, just enough to write this short post.
The Shape of Inequalities
https://www.andreinc.net/2026/03/16/the-shape-of-inequalities/
#HackerNews #The #Shape #of #Inequalities #inequalities #socialjustice #dataanalysis #economicinequality #researchinsights
…symmetry isn’t just a preference for “pretty” shapes. Contents Introduction The HM-AM-GM-QM Inequality The two circles The Semicircle The Container The 3D container The Sum of Squares Inequality Nesbitt’s Inequality Conclusion Introduction While I was randomly browsing the web, I came across this nice picture: Roland H. Eddy, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, 1985 And it tickled my imagination a little, just enough to write this short post.
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Eric Maugendre about carbon
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Internet Archaeology
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