George Monbiot
There is one overriding political problem, from which all others follow. Until it is addressed, every policy advanced by governments is window dressing. www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

Just 0.001% hold three times t...
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds

Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%

The Guardian
Dec 10 at 7:09amWeb
Show threadBen CarverDec 10

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social you are right and just one example of this underpinning so many more prominent issues is migration. Is it any wonder that the European first world receives so much desperate migration when this is the economic situation?

"Looking beyond strict economic inequality, it found that inequality of opportunity fuels inequality of outcomes, with education spending per child in Europe and North America, for example, more than 40 times that in sub-Saharan Africa – a gap roughly three times greater than GDP per capita."

Show threadStephen Elliott~BuckleyDec 23

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

I'm looking for a 25% wealth tax/year on families worth more than $200m, dropping to 5% when they're down to $78m.

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