Spending the kids' inheritance: How Australia's richest generation reshaped the economy

Baby boomers own half of Australia's wealth and are spending it on travel, property gifts, and cruises - leaving younger generations to navigate a rigged market.

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Spending the kids' inheritance: How Australia's richest generation reshaped the economy

Baby boomers own half of Australia's wealth and are spending it on travel, property gifts, and cruises - leaving younger generations to navigate a rigged market.

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Why Your Living Standards Are Falling - The Squeeze Out

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Why Your Living Standards Are Falling - The Squeeze Out

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The Iran economic shock is coming. How to protect yourself

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Who's getting rich from your mortgage

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The economy doesn't have to be a zero-sum game. If we guarantee a vital minimum for everyone and establish a rational maximum for accumulation, we narrow the inequality gap. Justice by design.
#prout #EconomicJustice #dynamicadjustment #WealthDistribution #SystemChange #socialequity #FairEconomy

Today, my membership cancellation has been processed by the NSW Branch of the #Labor Party (#NSWLabor). It no longer represents me, nor many thousands of others I’m sure, and has used up all the loyalty and trust I once had invested in it.

From now on my membership fees and any donation I might have made to the Party will be directed elsewhere (not a political party), to where I think will help #Australia get back on track to #SocialDemocracy where the benefits equally flow to all Australians and not just the #ChoosenFew. As for my vote, it will have to earn it back.

#Poverty is a political choice
#HousingAffordability is a political choice
#CivicLiberties are a political choice
#EquityDiversityInclusion are a political choice
#WealthDistribution is a political choice
#CostOfLiving is a political choice

There is no getting away from #politics nor our civic duty to make sound political choices for all of us living, on this stollen land, on the great #SouthernLand.

#Antifa #TaxTheRich #AusPol

Billionaires won’t leave if we tax them – and even if they do, so what?

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Graph from Tony Johansson, Katalys. "Swedish economic growth was highest when wealth and income distribution was most even". Numbers show curves of growth and income equality between 1915 and 2015.

#inequality #wealthdistribution

"Billionaire wealth jumped by over 16 per cent in 2025, three times faster than the past five-year average, to $18.3 trillion – its highest level in history, according to a new Oxfam report today as the World Economic Forum opens in Davos.

Billionaire wealth has increased by 81 per cent since 2020. This comes as one in four people don’t regularly have enough to eat and nearly half the world’s population live in poverty.

The report Resisting the Rule of the Rich: Protecting Freedom from Billionaire Power analyses how the super-rich are securing political power to shape the rules of our economies and societies for their own gain and to the detriment of the rights and freedoms of people around the world.

The surge in billionaire wealth coincides with the US Trump administration pursuing a pro-billionaire agenda. It has slashed taxes for the super-rich, undermined global efforts to tax large corporations, reversed attempts to address monopoly power and contributed to the growth of AI-related stocks that have provided a boon to super-rich investors world-wide.

His presidency has sent a clear warning sign to the rest of the world about the power of the ultra-rich. Rather than solely a US phenomenon Oxfam’s paper demonstrates that rising oligarchy is undermining societies worldwide. Oxfam’s report finds:

- The collective wealth of billionaires last year surged by $2.5 trillion, almost equivalent to the total wealth held by the bottom half of humanity – 4.1 billion people.
- The number of billionaires topped 3,000 last year for the first time, while the richest, Elon Musk, became the first ever to surpass half a trillion dollars.
- Billionaires are 4,000 times more likely to hold political office than ordinary people.
- The $2.5 trillion rise in billionaires’ wealth would be enough to eradicate extreme poverty 26 times over."

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/billionaire-wealth-jumps-three-times-faster-2025-highest-peak-ever

#Inequality #Billionaires #WealthDistribution #Capitalism

Billionaire wealth jumps three times faster in 2025 to highest peak ever, sparking dangerous political inequality | Oxfam International

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