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Saturday, February 7th 7:00 p.m. PT

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Burned By Billionaires:
How Concentrated Wealth and Power are Ruining Our Lives and Planet

with

Chuck Collins

Director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good, Institute for Policy Studies

Billionaire power touches you – where you live, what you eat, what news you consume, what you pay for housing and even pet care! In his latest book, Burned by Billionaires, Chuck Collins exposes the hidden impact of America’s ultra wealthy on our social, economic, political, and ecological landscape. Hear Collins make the case – as well as share prescriptions for creating a society of universal abundance instead of abundant inequality!
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#billionaires #inequity #socialjustice

Nur allein mit der Summe, um die das Vermögen der G20-Milliardäre im vergangenen Jahr *angestiegen* ist, ließe sich die weltweite Armut beenden.

🇬🇧 ‘G20 billionaires’ fortunes rise by $2.2 trillion in just one year, more than enough to lift everyone above the global poverty line’

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/south-africa-puts-stern-test-g20-leaders-year-confront-scourge-global-inequality

Wir können uns keine Milliardäre leisten.
🇬🇧 We can't afford billionaires.

#Gerechtigkeit #Ungleichheit #Inequality #Armut #Poverty #Injustice #SocialInjustice #Inequity #TaxMeNow #Vermögensteuer #Erbschaftsteuer #Reichensteuer

SFGate: OpenAI's Sam Altman defends Bay Area billionaire when grilled over wealth gap

Nov 4, 2025

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/sam-altman-steve-kerr-grilled-21138787.php

#AI #inequity #billionaires #greed

This is an interesting video and it's hard to argue with the priorities expressed in it. Castro asks simple questions, and they demand direct answers. Now, almost fifty years later, they're as relevant as they ever were.

I wanted to do alt text for the video without typing it out manually, and I found that this is a fairly brief excerpt, and it misses a bunch of the content. Even the parts that included are mildly edited down.

It was next to impossible finding the text online. In today's world of easy access to data, why is it so hard to find the text of an important UN speech from a noted world leader?

Anyway, I found the text here:

https://dataverse.tdl.org/file.xhtml?fileId=55109&version=2.0

It's possible to download a zip file of that whole archive, and that might be the more reasonable way to get at this data.

Anyway, here's the video. If anyone has found the entire video, un-edited, I'd love to see it.

#castro #inequity #polycrisis

Why Wall Street is booming while Main Street is stagnating

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-wall-street-booming-main-stagnating.html

> New research finds that major U.S. corporations are growing by buying up their competitors rather than generating new ideas.

#economy #economics #inequity #captitalism #greed #innovation

For a moment yesterday, #ElonMusk wealth hit $500 billion - the first person ever to reach that number. Remember the great comparison for context: a million seconds is 11.5 days, a billion seconds is nearly 32 years. Uh-huh. And #Musk has almost half a trillion dollars, and is poised with his proposed #Tesla compensation package to go much, much higher. Over a trillion perhaps. Using the same comparison, if one million is 11.5 days, a trillion is 31,700 years. Let that sink in. A number so big it’s hard to imagine. This is sick, disgusting on every level. If there ever was a posterboi for #TaxTheRich it’s #Elon. The #oligarchy is not only alive and well, it’s thriving - at OUR EXPENSE. #wealth #inequity

Source: Reuters https://share.google/UUfdXiV2lBv55fuS4

Weekly reminder.

This week I add the following ad-libbed line:
"And now you see, I really cannot afford to share 2% of my cookies." *

Artist
Denis Lushch,
https://www.instagram.com/d.lushch.art/?hl

#Inequality #Inequity

* https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/21/wealth-tax-would-be-deadly-for-french-economy-says-europe-richest-man-bernard-arnault

and a pointer to this podcast offering a related episode:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0gl14tz