Pomegranate Pirate 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️May 15, 2025
For now, I can afford to get a Sonoma Feed box in my area, via a farm that sells locally raised meats. It's a loophole to get the CSA veggie box. My city is sort of a CSA dead zone, but my place of work is not,but still on the fringe.
This veggie box is worth it! There is enough in it to last til the next week. Everything is fresh. I mean, even the week old dill is still "fresh" as well as the sugar snap peas. WTF is the stuff at the grocery store!? I can now taste the difference and. I am so done with "fresh" produce that dies in a day or two. This is money saving as well because you actually WANT to eat the stuff. I've started eating a wider variety of veggies too. My super taster/smeller partner is in heaven. Even the Meats are really fresh, duh, but then again, how long has. Grocery store meat been traveling from farm to table? He actually enjoyed a burger for the first time!
I'm super happy with this set up, super happy to taste really fresh food, super happy there is a loophole that lets me get a box. I'm also really pissed at what consumers are exposed to in grocery stores, and how limited,not fresh, not tasty things are. It's not a good model of commerce nor good for the people. It's also obvious how wealthy areas can sustain this and not wealthy areas can't, or aren't catered too. This produce box should be available to all.
#CSA #farmtotable #WealthInequity #food #CommunitySupportedAgriculture #farmBoxes
Ian Alexander MartinFeb 21, 2025
#FensterFreitag

Del Mar Inn, the front of which has the art installation “Unlimited Growth Increases the Divide,” Kathryn Walter; 1990

City of Vancouver’s information at https://covapp.vancouver.ca/PublicArtRegistry/ArtworkDetail.aspx?ArtworkId=311 or head to https://www.kathrynwalter.ca/home/unlimited-growth for the artist’s description and Artistic Statement

#darktable #SlvrFX #art #architecture #Vancouver #WealthInequity
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CynthiaOct 2, 2024
There are more of us than them and united we can enact change #wealthinequity #TaxTheRich #theonepercent #voteblue
BC MatronMar 21, 2024

Might it be wise to take care of the billionaire problem now, before they’re locked in their bunkers?

#EatTheRich #BanBillionaires #WealthHoarders #GreedIsBad #WealthInequity #Billionaires #Bunkers

CynthiaJan 31, 2024
#wealthinequality #wealthinequity #TaxTheRich
Ray Gulick, he/him/wtf 🇺🇦 ❌👑Aug 19, 2023

When is everyone going to realize that billionaires only act in their own selfish interests (which are different than yours and mine), and that the culture wars are manufactured to distract us from billionaires' sociopathic shenanigans?

#WealthInequity
#CultureWars
#ConnectTheDots

ZapotecorumJul 27, 2023
A system for the rich? Tax avoidance could cost governments $5 trillion in next decade | DW Business :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2--tQTFAUQ
#capitalism #corruption #taxes #wealthinequity
A system for the rich? Tax avoidance could cost governments $5 trillion in next decade | DW Business

Tax avoidance will cost the world nearly $5 trillion over the next decade. That's the conclusion of a new report by the Tax Justice Network, a campaign group...

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Iain MacLeanApr 29, 2023
The New Zealand Herald's Deputy Political Editor, Thomas Coughlan, has done a good analysis of some of the data in the IRD report this week on the 300 wealthiest people in New Zealand and the amount of tax they pay.

Anyone who's read Max Rashbrook's book 'Too Much Money' will be familiar with this data. The IRD report showed that the mean wealth of the people in this group increased from $205m in 2015 to $275m in 2021 - an increase of $70m each.

As expected, National and Act, along with the rich and their proxies, and the aspirational middle classes have diverted the discussion into possible capital gains taxes on the houses owned by the middle class, and what their income tax rates ought to be.

I think most people don't understand how wealth works. For a start, many people think the very rich are rich because they work hard, but much of their wealth is inherited. Also, rich people get richer by already being very rich; that's how we get the $70m increase. No one can earn that much by working harder - it's virtually all growth in capital values - property, investments, shares and stocks, etc. No real effort is required.

And they are incredibly wealthy:
- the bottom 50% of households owned 2% of the country's wealth in 2021
- the top 5% owned 45.5%
- the top 1% owned 23.4%.

Those are some serious inequities.

So, here we are, arguing about who pays tax and how much they pay, rather than a wider debate on wealth, who has it, how they get and keep it, why this is seen as acceptable.

How the rich get rich: Seven things you missed from the IRD’s wealth report
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/how-the-rich-get-rich-seven-things-you-missed-from-the-irds-wealth-report/27RRNVLIDRGP7HQX2WXLH3VFEI/ #wealth #WealthTax #tax #WealthInequity
How the rich get rich: Seven things you missed from the IRD’s wealth report

The IRD's investigation found how rich people earn money - and pay less tax.

NZ Herald
RozzychanJan 23, 2023

#wealthInequity

"Wealthy people have used their wealth to purchase democracy, to warp democracy in their own interests.

They’ve done that through a global template that involves lowering taxes, privatising formerly public attempts to deal with common problems, liquidating the spending that went into things like social services, and then putting that money into their own pockets."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/23/system-rigged-inequality-pandemic-despair-super-rich

Look at how the 1% are doing right now, and tell me the system isn’t rigged

The world’s super-rich have amassed so much wealth since the pandemic that even a Tory minister can see something is amiss, says the Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Show threadShantyMinister Nov 21, 2022

@jenniferleekw so what do you think the purpose of valuation is for a deteriorating, used, aging widget (whose systems grow less efficient and less reliable with use and age) is?
It’s not improving as a widget over time, so why should it appreciate?
I mean, do #RealEstate people ever think about these issues or are they merely chasing capitalism and the highest closing amount (over all other ethical issues)?

These are questions to consider, not attacks. #Housing #WealthInequity