"That one man could accumulate such a fortune, much less be willing to spend it on a company for #ideological or #personal reasons, was a testament to the world's widening wealth #inequality. This simply wasn't what the elite did with their money. To buy and operate a global corporation for one's own pleasure was unheard of. Musk was breaking the rules of what it meant to be rich."
#CharacterLimit - How #ElonMusk destroyed #Twitter - "Bring that Cattle" Chapter - PP. 139
![A man [Elon Musk] in a red and black armored costume poses triumphantly with his arms raised, while a woman [Musk's mother] in a stylish black outfit and short platinum blonde hair smiles beside him. The background features a blue wall with "Heidi Klum Halloween" promotional text.](https://files2.mato.social/media_attachments/files/114/404/024/519/929/153/original/cbf0ca5e65d7e7de.jpeg "A man [Elon Musk] in a red and black armored costume poses triumphantly with his arms raised, while a woman [Musk's mother] in a stylish black outfit and short platinum blonde hair smiles beside him. The background features a blue wall with \"Heidi Klum Halloween\" promotional text.")
Land reform is an essential part of Scottish Independence
An opinion piece.
https://www.thenational.scot/politics/25114298.ariane-burgess-land-reform-bring-power-back-people/
http://archive.today/2025.04.25-101323/https://www.thenational.scot/politics/25114298.ariane-burgess-land-reform-bring-power-back-people/?
(archive of article)
The Labour government is in office — but economically, it feels like the Tories never left.
Rachel Reeves is taxing ordinary people while protecting the wealth of landlords, investors, and rentiers.
Borrowing is soaring, inequality is deepening, and nothing has changed except the party in charge.
At Vox Political, we’ve already laid out a better path — one that could raise £50 billion a year by taxing wealth fairly:
Equalising capital gains with income tax Surcharges on investment income Reforming pension relief VAT on financial services Progressive property tax
It’s time to stop punishing work while rewarding wealth
Read the full story here: https://voxpoliticalonline.com/?p=97841
This looks well interesting on factors contributing to emergence of #inequality, comparing the difference between #land limitation and #labour limitation. The latter is more likely to maintain equality (and it's also more likely to be matrilineal/matrilocal probably), while shifts from labour to land scarcity would generate inequalities (not least gender).
In the US, the super-rich get even richer. https://www.commondreams.org/news/19-richest-us-families
https://www.cracked.com/article_46285_no-middle-class-family-can-live-like-the-simpsons-anymore-census-shows.html “While the median income of families has risen, inequality means that fewer people have that amount of money.” #Simpsons #housing #inequality #shortage
Folks, please don’t be so hard on Labour.
It’s not easy laying the foundations for the UK’s upcoming fascist government. (The Democrats should know; it takes dedicated effort.)
They’re working as hard as they can as it is to ensure the UK follows in the footsteps of the US.
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Tweet by Sen. Bernie Sanders:
U.S. Oligarchy - 2025:
Elon Musk owns as much wealth as the bottom 53% of U.S households.
The top 1% own more wealth than the bottom 90%.
Real weekly wages are $30 lower than 52 years ago.
60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
Yes. We can do better than that.
Interesting confirmation of what we'd been suspecting. "Austerity, they found, is the key variable: without it, less-educated people are no more likely to vote for rightwing demagogues than highly educated people are. In other words, Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are busily handing their core constituencies to Nigel Farage."
https://www.monbiot.com/2025/04/14/the-urge-to-destroy/
#austerity #UKpolitics #inequality
