"The lavish lifestyles of the very #rich – the 1% – attract attention. But the 10% [paid more than about $40,000/yr] are responsible for half of all global emissions, making them key to ending the #climateCrisis."
"Transport, especially #car use, [but also] goods…, such as #furniture and #electronics… are 20-50 times higher for the richest 10%, and make up ≈⅓ emissions in most countries."
#rich people exploit and destroy things, they don’t invent & build them.
Inventing & building is what the people the rich rip off do.
Screw #billionaires
The NIESR offers more evidence of what we already knew; the #Tories have overseen a major reduction in living standards for the less well-off in the UK.
Government by the #rich for the rich was always going to have this effect, and if you think its merely circumstances & events that have caused this decline in general economic well-being, I'm afraid you've really not been paying attention.
if you want to know how the Tories get away with it - look to our corrupt media!
Did you know that "eat the #rich" was first a #philosophy concept?
Limitarianism is fundamentally the study of when it might be #ethical to put limitations on citizens in a governed society. It's a case-based theory, not a political system.
It asks questions like: is #wealth ever individual? What is the wealth limit?
& questions it isn't positing, like: If no one is ultra-rich, should no one be #poor? Is limitarianism virtue #ethics or justifiable without perfectionist views?
Billionaires don’t like Ottawa’s capital gains tax hike, but you should: It’s an overdue step toward making our tax system fairer
“We don’t think it’s fair that a teacher or electrician pays taxes on 100% of their income while a multimillionaire pays taxes on only 50%,” said Trudeau
"Walking down the long hallways, I took deep, greedy breaths. There was a complete absence of odor, yet somehow the air felt bright, abundant—the opposite of stuffy, the inverse of stale."
✔️ "The working-class is getting poorer, while the ownership-class is getting richer."
Lower, middle, and upper class definitions simply divide the working-class into income levels, focusing on how much they make rather than how they make it.
This does nothing but divide workers and distract from the real issues of how they're exploited. There are two classes that really matter: the working-class and ownership-class.
Did you know that the 1st mass poisoning was fabricated?
In 331 BC, many #rich men had died & ~200 #Roman women were put on trial.
A slave revealed the truth: the rich ladies were poisoners.
The accused were asked to drink their #poison & promptly died. The officials declared them insane.
The #problem is that this doesn’t make sense.
The women had no political agenda, all wealthy men had food tasters & the accused were willing to drink their potions.
Super-rich warned of ‘pitchforks and torches’ unless they tackle inequality (www.theguardian.com)
Global elite told at London’s Savoy hotel of real risk of ‘civil disruption’ if more is not done to help struggling millions