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kerravonsen
Kerr Avonsen (she/her) @kerravonsen@mastodon.au · 4d ago
I freely admit that I'm prejudiced. I'm prejudiced against billionaires. #Inequality #Economy #CostOfLiving
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griega17
Lee for #Art2Sect4 NOW! 🤬 @griega17@mastodon.social · 5d ago
🚨Broken promise: @UKGov promised guaranteed hours for all workers, but now most will miss out! 🤬 🚫 Sign the #petition now to protect every worker: 👇 #Politics #HumanRights #Inequality #Justice #EmploymentRightsBill https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/protect-all-workers-from-insecure-contracts
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RebelLog
RebelLog @RebelLog@mastodon.social · Aug 07, 2026
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@gary_alderson/117039742200425204 What is wrong with this picture? 🤦🏾‍♀️ #inequality #capitalism
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bluewave_kiwi
Mastodon's Billionaire Owner @bluewave_kiwi@mastodon.nz · Aug 06, 2026
New Zealand's richest man makes the largest single donation this cycle, to National. This is the death of democracy, outright corruption and is one way our political system gives outsized influence to the super-rich, to the detriment of everyone else. Donations to political parties should be outright BANNED . Only small membership fees should be allowed (e.g. maximum $100 per person per annum). Such fees are fundamentally democratic, because significant money can only be raised with significant population support. Then - tax the rich and fund political parties from the state budget. The rich still get to contribute to the political process, just can't do the choosing for all the rest of us. Unfortunately the response of Labour and other parties is "No Fair - rich people - donate to us too!!!!". https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics/647946/rnz-political-donations-tracker-national-s-war-chest-climbs-by-dollar440-000 #nzpol #tax #inequality
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DropBear
Drop Bear @DropBear@theblower.au · Aug 02, 2026
Replying to @aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au

@aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au In the 1980s, I worked in Australia's Commonwealth Employment Service (CES). Businesspeople in my regional city still speak wistfully of the days when they could ask the local CES office for people and would be provided - free of charge - with suitable applicants. These days, finding workers is far more costly (and fraught).

I came to the conclusion that, with few exceptions, people want to feel that they're contributing to their community. The “Dole Bludger” is mythical.

Totalitarian Capitalism does not serve the nation well. Australia is rich enough to afford every resident the necessities of life and opportunities to do something that's meaningful to them.

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DropBear
Drop Bear @DropBear@theblower.au · Aug 03, 2026
Replying to @ocratato@discuss.systems
I struggle to find a privatisation which proved to be in the public interest @ocratato@discuss.systems Market Capitalism fails, reliably and consistently. My favourite take is from this blog post: https://david.boxall.id.au/201604/default.html "The private sector cherry-picks profitable markets, then demands public sector subsidies to cover the rest." That post hasn't been updated for years, but it's still cogent. Australia's telecommunications are the poster-child of failed privatisation. There are good reasons why such natural-monopoly infrastructure has historically been the province of the public sector. Where infrastructure is involved, I favour de-privatisation with maximum prejudice. The cost to those who profited from the privatisation should be so extreme that only the brave or foolish will participate in any proposed future privatisation. I picture gobbets of Capitalist gore, clinging to walls & ceilings. @InsurgoFormica@aus.social @anne_twain@theblower.au @aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au #AusPol #inequality #TotalitarianCapitalism
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DropBear
Drop Bear @DropBear@theblower.au · Aug 03, 2026
Replying to @ocratato@discuss.systems
Market mechanisms have a role to play @ocratato@discuss.systems but how much of a role? We've gone too close to Hayek's ideal of the holy, inviolate market in all things. Democracies must decide what is best left to the public sector. I suspect that the answer is; "most of what has been privatised" (and probably more). @InsurgoFormica@aus.social @anne_twain@theblower.au @aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au #AusPol #inequality #TotalitarianCapitalism
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DropBear
Drop Bear @DropBear@theblower.au · Aug 04, 2026
Replying to @InsurgoFormica@aus.social

@InsurgoFormica@aus.social Decades of indoctrination have led to many of us believing that:

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lionelb
LionelB @lionelb@expressional.social · Aug 01, 2026
This is what Thatcher strove to achieve. She was an evil cancer on society. May she rot in hell. #economics #monetarism #inequality
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petersuber
petersuber @petersuber@fediscience.org · Jul 31, 2026
"Musk Plans to Spend at Least $100 Million to Help Republicans in the Midterms." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/us/politics/elon-musk-midterms-republicans.html PS: Assume Musk's net worth is 1 trillion. $100 million is 0.01% of 1 trillion. The net worth of the average American is $1,063,700, and the net worth of the median American $192,900. (These numbers are from the Federal Reserve's 2022 Survey of Consumer Finances.) https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scfindex.htm For the average American, 0.01% of their net worth is $106. For the median American, it's $19. A lot of us spend more than 0.01% of our net worth on candidates in critical elections. But Musk has 940,115x the net worth of the average American and 5,184,033x the net worth of the median American. #Inequality #Musk #USPol #USPolitics
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afewbugs
Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop · Jul 31, 2026
‘It’s alright for them’: private schools and golf courses stay green despite England’s hosepipe bans As parks turn brown and paddling pools go unfilled, exemptions mean sports pitches can stay lush – even in school holidays https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/31/england-hosepipe-ban-drought-private-schools-golf-courses-green-grass #UKHeatwave #UKDrought #Inequality
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ChrisMayLA6
Emeritus Prof. Christopher May @ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk · Jul 31, 2026
We've moved to (or returned to) a world where wealth has replaced income as the key driver for inequality; in societies where financial services are politically powerful & influential, the wealthy capture surpluses highly effectively. John Burn-Murdoch (FT) observes: 'a generation ago it would have taken about 20 years of savings from the average salary to earn your way from the bottom quarter of the UK’s wealth distribution to the top quarter, it now takes 40'! #inequality #politics
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World news | The Guardian @guardian_world@robot.villas · Jul 30, 2026
Child pedestrian deaths are almost five times higher in England's worst-off areas https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/30/child-pedestrian-deaths-five-times-higher-england-worst-off-areas #WorldNews #Inequality #RoadSafety
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braveneweurope1
Brave New Europe @braveneweurope1@bird.makeup · Jul 28, 2026
Branko Milanović @brankomilan@bird.makeup - Sketching the new dysto-utopian world with massive presence of artificial intelligence https://braveneweurope.com/economics/branko-milanovic-sketching-the-new-dysto-utopian-world-with-massive-presence-of-artificial-intelligence/ AI would produce socially extremely unequal and politically much more unstable societies than the current proponents of abundance created by the artificial intelligence want us to believe. #Economics #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Inequality #productivity
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World news | The Guardian @guardian_world@robot.villas · Jul 28, 2026
Black people's risk factors for stroke 'rising faster than for white people' https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jul/28/black-african-caribbean-risk-factor-stroke-diabetes-high-blood-pressure-hypertension #Health #Inequality #World
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leanderlindahl
Leander Lindahl has moved @leanderlindahl@social.folkdata.se · Jul 26, 2026
There are two theories of prosperity and of well-being: The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle down to the rest of us. The second theory — and I suppose this goes back to the days of Noah […] was the theory that if we make the average of mankind comfortable and secure, their prosperity will rise upward, just as yeast rises up, through the ranks. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/campaign-address-detroit-michigan #socialjustice #inequality #billionairetax
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persagen
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ @persagen@mastodon.social · Jul 26, 2026
Replying to @persagen@mastodon.social
💰️ Capitalism: Malignant Tumor https://blog.Persagen.org/capitalism_cancer.pdf Wealth <-> protects <-> power 🇨🇦 #Poilievre #DanielleSmith #ScottMoe #Trumpism #capitalism #billionaires #inequality #IndustrialComplexes : military, prison, poverty ... v. #DemocraticSocialism #equality #sustainability ✊️ Capitalism + fossil fuels lobby = anthropogenic climate change #capitalism #inequality v. #DemocraticSocialism #equality #capitalism #billionaires #inequality #DemocraticSocialism #justice #sustainability #egalitarianism
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