Categorie: Original English

Ongelijkheid … en waarom geen belastingen?

A decade ago, Oxfam raised the alarm at the World Economic Forum – an annual meeting of the world’s wealthy elite held in Davos, Switzerland – about extreme levels of inequality. Ever since, billionaires have doubled their wealth, growing by $2.7 BILLION a day since 2020.

Het nieuwe rapport van Oxfam, op de eerste dag van het Wereld Economisch Forum in Davos

Ongelijkheid …

“Remember life before March 2020? So many lives lost, learning delayed, jobs disappeared.

And yet during that time, the few hundred richest people have seen their wealth increase by $4.48 trillion. (Yes, that’s $4,480,000,000,000.00.) That’s not just luck: the wealthiest are rigging the stakes in their favor.”

(Chuck Collins, Inequality.org)

Society Prefers Dead Women to Women Who Fight Back

Purple bench as a simbol for claiming Stop Violence against woman. You’re not alone. Violet bank as a cry You are not alone, Enough gender violence.

Dit artikel is bedoeld voor vrouwen die denken dat het allemaal toch zo erg niet is, dat feministen toch makkelijk overdrijven, dat sommige vrouwen óók geweld gebruiken …

https://4w.pub/society-prefers-dead-women/

This essay is written by a Canadian activist rooted in her own community, but there is no corner of the planet where what she describes is not entirely as evident, nor the remedies she proposes the minimum necessary.

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‘Mijn geld voor ons algemeen goed’?

Ze zouden het zo graag zelf willen geloven, de miljardairs. Maar … lees dit even:

“What a year for crypto it’s been, and it’s still only November. I cannot tell you how much I am looking forward to reading the Michael Lewis book on Sam Bankman-Fried and the FTX drama. Presumably, the man they call SBF first appealed to Lewis because it fit into his favored narrative of “how one clever guy overcame the idiocy of the crowd,” but now it has become so much more interesting.

A lot has been written on this saga already, but I think the most amazing piece I’ve read remains this bonkers “spotlight” feature from Sequoia, the venture capital company which invested in SBF’s companies, and which SBF then invested in (an endearingly circular relationship, which may be of interest to regulators). If read at face value, it gives the impression that SBF is the closest thing to Jesus that Earth has hosted for years. I could quote all of it, but I’ll content myself with a couple of snippets.

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