‘We got lazy and complacent’: Swedish pensioners explain how abolishing the wealth tax changed their country.

For some Swedes, the question isn’t simply whether a wealth tax works, but what kind of society has been lost with its abolition.

Sweden’s gini coefficient, the most common way to measure inequality, has reached 0.3 in recent years, up from around 0.2 in the 1980s.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260119-we-got-lazy-and-complacent-swedish-pensioners-explain-how-abolishing-the-wealth-tax-changed-their-country?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Sweden #WealthTax #Inequality #Wealth #GiniCoefficient #SocialScience

My partner went to go look at a rental in Kits

It’s the basement suite of a duplex (so 4 units)

The rent is high, the place is small, and the upstairs folks only live there a few months each year

But they have all the amenities: the yard, the garage, etc

Love it when the literal underclasses subsidize their landlord's part-time luxury lifestyle

#GiniCoefficient

Income inequality in Canada, as measured by the Gini coefficient, has changed marginally in the last fifty years, and is lower now than what it was 25 years ago.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1110013401&pickMembers%5B0%5D=1.1&cubeTimeFrame.startYear=1976&cubeTimeFrame.endYear=2023&referencePeriods=19760101%2C20230101

Increased #homelessness is a much more important problem than inequality for #CanPol.

#inequality #GiniCoefficient
#cdnpoli

George Monbiot has seen it all, or most of it. His research is thorough; his conclusions are sound. Why aren't we listening?

"The one thing that can stop the rise of the far right is the one thing mainstream parties are currently not prepared to deliver: greater equality. The rich should be taxed more, and the revenue used to improve the lives of the poor. However frantically centrist parties avoid the issue, there is no other way."

#ginicoefficient #incomeinequality #wealthgap #Populism #georgemonbiot

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/13/trump-populists-human-nature-economic-growth?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other