What happens when you tax the rich (summary: they don't run away as conservative parties always warn, but they stay, and the whole society becomes a better, nicer place)

https://youtube.com/shorts/6sinu8GqjYA?si=U4DzEk7FpptAv0ES

#democracy #freedom #equality #equity #Piketty #wealthinequality

What Really Happens When You Tax the Rich?

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Thomas #Piketty: “The use of force against a regime that massacres protesters and oppresses its population can be justified. But only if it begins by building the broadest possible coalitions and, more importantly, by proposing a model of development and a democratic method for a process of transition, in Iran and elsewhere”.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2026/03/07/thomas-piketty-in-the-face-of-trump-s-militaristic-drift-and-looming-disaster-europe-must-equip-itself-to-have-global-influence_6751186_23.html

No need to “propose”: The “democratic method” to deal with threats to peace is established on chapter VII of UN charter:

https://main.un.org/securitycouncil/en/content/repertoire/actions

Thomas Piketty: 'In the face of Trump's militaristic drift and looming disaster, Europe must equip itself to have global influence'

Following the intervention in Venezuela, the war against Iran launched by the US president signals yet another admission of weakness by the United States, observes the economist in his column. This military agitation primarily serves to bolster the US economy.

Le Monde
#Piketty is tracking 2025 under Trump in this opinion piece from December in Le Monde. It is all going more or less according #Project2025 plan, tariffs and all. Why does the media in Finland frame it as erratic behavior of Trump?
@mmm indeed:
"compatibility with the 2°C target also requires sobriety, defined as a major structural transformation aimed at reducing the economy's material footprint. This includes a drastic reduction in work hours, a large consumption shift from material
to immaterial sectors, and a substantial change of food habits. In other words,
decarbonization without sobriety will not suffice. In turn, sobriety also requires deep
institutional and distributional changes. #degrowth #piketty #sobriety
"L’ #Europa è più ricca di quello che sembra" Thomas #Piketty intern.az/1PoD

L’Europa è più ricca di quello...
L’Europa è più ricca di quello che sembra

Le definizioni possono variare: i conservatori tedeschi parlano di “economia sociale di mercato”, alcuni preferiscono la nozione di “stato sociale”, altri quella di… Leggi

Internazionale

"L’ #Europa è più ricca di quello che sembra" Thomas #Piketty

https://intern.az/1PoD

L’Europa è più ricca di quello che sembra

Le definizioni possono variare: i conservatori tedeschi parlano di “economia sociale di mercato”, alcuni preferiscono la nozione di “stato sociale”, altri quella di… Leggi

Internazionale

🎬 FILMREIHE von #Goliathwatch: Sei kein #Pfeffersack

📅 Dienstag, 10. März | 19:00 Uhr
🎥 Film: "Das Kapital im 21. Jahrhundert" (2019)
Thomas Piketty’s Buch – eines der meistgelesenen Wirtschaftsbücher unserer Zeit als Film – must see.
📍 Lichtmeß-Kino in #Hamburg
💶 Eintritt: Spendenbasis
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#TaxTheRich #Piketty

„Jeśli gruntownie nie zreformujemy obecnego ustroju ekonomicznego w taki sposób, by stał się mniej nierównościowy, bardziej sprawiedliwy i zrównoważony — zarówno pomiędzy poszczególnymi krajami, jak i w ich obrębie — ksenofobiczny „populizm” i jego całkiem możliwe wygrane wyborcze mogą szybko zacząć niszczyć skrajnie kapitalistyczną, cyfrową globalizację lat 1990–2020.”

T. Piketty, „Kapitał i ideologia”

Ten fragment to dla mnie oczywistość od dawien dawna, ale myślę, że u niektórych czytelników mógł by wywołać niemałe zdziwienie.

Szkoda tylko, że to jak czytanie przepowiedni w trakcie jej spełniania się.

#ideologia #kapital #piketty #pikettyeconomics

„Dyskurs oparty na merytokracji i przedsiębiorczości często okazuje się wygodny dla beneficjentów aktualnego systemu ekonomicznego, pozwalając im uzasadnić dowolny poziom nierówności nawet bez ich przebadania, oraz piętnować przegranych za brak zasług, cnót i pracowitości.”

T. Piketty „Kapitał i ideologia”
#pikettyeconomics #piketty #kapital #ideologia