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"The wealthier a household was in 1990, the quicker its wealth has accumulated in the years since. While the top 1% grew its share of total household wealth, all other U.S. wealth groups have seen their shares decrease."

https://archive.is/20250430155240/https://www.wsj.com/economy/1-trillion-richest-families-wealth-increase-bc13874a h/t @John

#wealth #money #accumulation #redirection #appropriation #USPol #neoliberalism #RonaldReagan #taxes #assets #savings #estate #property #ownership #finance #economy #economics #inequalities #concentration #families #TaxTheRich #billionaires

The share of wealth held by the top few US citizens decreased from 1913 until 1980, then increased.

Now 30-odd families control almost 2% of American wealth. That is double the almost 1% share in 1913.

Solving a Two Step Linear Inequality #maths #inequalities #algebra bra

https://authorjonathandavid.com/college-algebra/solving-a-two-step-linear-inequality-maths-inequalities-algebra-bra/

‘Our moral intuitions about merit and personal worth are changing.’

an interview with Marion Fourcade about her book "The Ordinal Society" co-written by @kjhealy: https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/04/23/from-uber-ratings-to-credit-scores-whats-lost-in-a-society-that-counts-and-sorts-everything/

#TheOrdinalSociety #concentration #merit #meritocracy #MarionFourcade #Fourcade #school #credit #scores #scoring #reward #rewards #sociology #psychology #socioPsych #socioPsychology #ranking #selfWorth #universalism #digitalization #inequality #inequalities #recognition #data #AIRisks #AIEthics #gaming #socialization #Tracking #surveillance #power #socialControl #governance #regulation #rules #socialMedia #attention #reintermediation #intermediation #enshittification #risk #derisking #vulnerability #morality #confidence #trust #dataDon

#Quotes #Inequalities #ChartlesEvanHughes

THIS guy gets it, and he passed in 1948.

No greater mistake can be made than to think that our institutions are fixed or may not be changed for the worse. ... Increasing prosperity tends to breed indifference and to corrupt moral soundness. Glaring inequalities in condition create discontent and strain the democratic relation. The vicious are the willing, and the ignorant are unconscious instruments of political artifice. Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. ... The peril of this nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope! -Charles Evans Hughes, jurist and statesman (11 Apr 1862-1948)

"And while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got you invited to the very best social occasions."
Terry Pratchett; Feet of Clay
#Discworld #BBCQT #Inequalities #WealthTaxNeeded #GaryEconomics

#Canada: #elbowsup is not enough: https://www.aurianneor.org/canada-elbow-up-is-not-enough/

#aurianneor #coalitionofthewilling #democracy #drugs #education #environment #farright #foodinsecurity #healthcare #housingcrisis #humanist #hunger #inequalities #infrastructures #intimidation #JustinTrudeau #KamalaHarris #left #medication #patriotic #politicians #poverty #price #Putin #racism #referendum #socialexclusion #standardofliving #transport #Trudeau #Trump #ubi #unfaircompetition #unity #universalbasicincome #wealth

Radical Food Geographies Power, Knowledge and Resistance

Featured in 2025 CAFS Social, Book Launch and Awards Ceremony
When: June 3, 2025, 7:00-9:30 pm
Where: And/Ore, 1040 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M6J 1H7

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/2025-cafs-social-book-launch-and-awards-ceremony-tickets-1278375047179

#CongreSSH #FoodStudies #Toronto #Food #TorontoFoodie #FoodWays #FoodSovereignty #FoodPolitics #FoodArt #CAFS2025 #ACEA2025

#FoodGeographies #Power #Knowledge #Resistance #Radical #FoodSystems #Inequalities #CaseStudy #Ecology #Land #Water #Sustainable #Praxis

19-Mar-2025
Global PM2.5 inequality: A new framework for air #pollution and #ecology

A pioneering study has introduced an innovative framework to evaluate global #inequalities in #ParticulateMatter (PM2.5) exposure and ecological possession, shedding light on the growing environmental disparities across nations.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1077552 #science #environment

L'identité définit le groupe social. Mais que faire lorsque l'on appartient à différentes identités?

https://open.substack.com/pub/antoinedepreville/p/lidentite?r=4boe0c&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

#identity #identite #inegalites #inequalities #justicesociale #socialjustice #culture

Radical Food Geographies Power, Knowledge and Resistance presents critical and action-oriented approaches to addressing food systems inequities across places, spaces, and scales.

Featured in 2025 CAFS Social, Book Launch and Awards Ceremony

https://foodstudies.info/news-conferences/upcoming-conference/

#CAFS2025 #ACEA2025

#FoodGeographies #Power #Knowledge #Resistance #Radical #FoodSystems #Inequalities #CaseStudy #Ecology #Land #Water #Sustainable #Praxis

Are you a PhD or early-career researcher working on #urban #inequalities and related themes? Join us for the Emerging Urban Inequalities #Conference in Sheffield, UK on 26-27 June 2025. Submit your abstract by 25 April. More info at: https://sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.uk/emu-conference #urban #sociology

Illustrative example of #publichealth -related #inequalities - how #breastfeeding rates vary by socioeconomic/-demographic factors in the UK.
Personal take - the neonatal community need to be aware and take this into account, but (IMHO) this boils down political strategies how to overcome societal gaps.
And of course, this is not UK-specific,(again IMHO) results are probably generalizable to most context (Sweden, for sure)
#NeoMastodon

https://fn.bmj.com/content/early/2025/02/26/archdischild-2024-327990

@petergleick
The step from techno-feudalism, as illustrated by #Varoufakis, to techno-nazifacism can be surprisingly short ... but it often looks like a #GooseStep !

#Technofeudalism
#TechnoNazism #TechnoFascism
#TechnoNaziFascism
#TechnoOligarcs #TechnoOligarchy
#Inequalities
#Democracy #Justice

MEP webinar with journalist/scholar Dennis Broe

#LosAngeles is Burning

"[I]n the spirit of Mike Davis, Broe will take us deep into #LA's geology, #ecology, neoliberal politics, and the sedimented #inequalities of class and race."

description: https://marxedproject.org/event/la-is-burning-with-dennis-broe/

replay: https://youtu.be/O4oHeJboBXw
#LAwildfires #CaliforniaWildfires #LAfires #CaliforniaFires #FireEcology #ecocide #urbanism #UrbanTheory #politicalTheory #socialEcology #inequality #cities

Just in time for lunch 🥪🍜☕️

📖 The new issue of #ChangingPopulations is here!

Read about the latest news on #population trends and how our #research is helping to tackle #demographic challenges.

https://sway.cloud.microsoft/CmZy5IKeGpRNyfAy?ref=Link&loc=play

#socialscience #demography #economics #migration #inequalities #ageing #carers #UnpaidCarers #geography #socialpolicy #genetics #population_genetics

A just AI transition?

Latest #SenseOfFairness blog, highlighting early work trying to identify the differential impacts of the adoption of #AI on economies and society, and suggest some actions that nations might take. Perhaps unsurprisingly, without such actions it is clear that AI will exacerbate existing #inequalities both between countries and within them

Though I'm cynical about both the A and the I of #AI (and was before the recent start of a re-evaluation), it's clear it will have significant effects on our world, particularly our world of work.

#fairness

http://senseoffairness.blog/2025/01/14/a-just-ai-transition/