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world inequality report 2025 update- www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM
world inequality report 2025 update- www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
Good conversation rhodes-center-podcast.captivate.fm/episode/the-...
The story of capitalism, as told by its critics - The Rhodes Center Podcast with Mark Blyth
For as long as this thing we call “capitalism” has existed, it has had its fair share of critics. (You’ve heard more than a few of them on this ve...
rhodes-center-podcast.captivate.fm
December 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Good conversation rhodes-center-podcast.captivate.fm/episode/the-...
"What they mean is rural communities absorb the damage so others don’t have to think about it. The volunteers running wood banks aren’t performing resilience. They’re plugging holes in a sinking ship and doing the work the state stopped doing." Worthwhile read
Collapse isn’t a single moment. It’s what happens when the systems people rely on keep existing on paper but stop functioning in practice. trib.al/UtqzfcJ
Firewood Banks Aren’t Inspiring. They’re a Sign of Collapse.
Rural communities are banding together to chop firewood so that people in need can heat their homes. This shouldn’t be necessary.
trib.al
December 13, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"What they mean is rural communities absorb the damage so others don’t have to think about it. The volunteers running wood banks aren’t performing resilience. They’re plugging holes in a sinking ship and doing the work the state stopped doing." Worthwhile read
"Others call it a plutonomy, a portmanteau of “plutocrat” and “economy,” signaling the disproportional power of the ultra-wealthy over our entire financial system."
Gotta love dropping a portmanteau first thing on a Saturday morning. prospect.org/2025/12/01/p...
Gotta love dropping a portmanteau first thing on a Saturday morning. prospect.org/2025/12/01/p...
Selling the Poor on Spending Like They’re Rich - The American Prospect
How plutonomy, premiumization, and social media squeeze the middle class.
prospect.org
December 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
"Others call it a plutonomy, a portmanteau of “plutocrat” and “economy,” signaling the disproportional power of the ultra-wealthy over our entire financial system."
Gotta love dropping a portmanteau first thing on a Saturday morning. prospect.org/2025/12/01/p...
Gotta love dropping a portmanteau first thing on a Saturday morning. prospect.org/2025/12/01/p...
1.Here is a triple shot of "Do you ever feel like you've been cheated"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How the dollar-store industry overcharges cash-strapped customers while promising low prices
A Guardian investigation reveals Dollar General and Family Dollar stores often fail to honor their shelf prices – charging more at checkout for everything from frying pans to Frosted Flakes
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
1.Here is a triple shot of "Do you ever feel like you've been cheated"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Once again, one of the most consistently replicated findings in the history of experiments is that giving people cash with zero strings attached has massive social benefits for those receiving the cash as well as the community around them
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
December 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Once again, one of the most consistently replicated findings in the history of experiments is that giving people cash with zero strings attached has massive social benefits for those receiving the cash as well as the community around them
Arrival of the OA music issue is always a good mail day.
November 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Arrival of the OA music issue is always a good mail day.
Thoughts and prayers to all those in the retail trenches today.
November 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Thoughts and prayers to all those in the retail trenches today.
“We only charged for success,” Mr. Lerner said. Great read. Rest Easy
aw. right to repair hero.
David Lerner, a true mensch, dies at 72. One of the founders of Tekserve, Manhattan Repair/Sales for Macs.
Reading thru the comments, what an incredible soul. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/t...
Reading thru the comments, what an incredible soul. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/t...
November 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
“We only charged for success,” Mr. Lerner said. Great read. Rest Easy
Enjoy your pie. "The Pilgrims and Puritans were high-control radical Protestant doomsday groups." www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Pilgrims Were Doomsday Cultists
The settlers who arrived in Plymouth were not escaping religious persecution. They left on the Mayflower to establish a theocracy in the Americas.
www.thenation.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Enjoy your pie. "The Pilgrims and Puritans were high-control radical Protestant doomsday groups." www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The problem isn’t just historic inequality and how it creates imbalanced systems or destroys capitalism through contradictions. It’s also what intentional precarity as a weapon does to people mentally and emotionally.
November 25, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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SF smooth brains are too rich to fail.
Dude who just got the SV Bank bailout two years ago is back banging the cup. It’s a tell.
November 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
SF smooth brains are too rich to fail.
What a legacy of songs www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjU8...
Jimmy Cliff Sitting In Limbo
YouTube video by Jackiron King
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:16 PM
What a legacy of songs www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjU8...
Rest easy
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Rest easy
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seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte
November 23, 2025 at 3:35 AM
seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars 2025 Holiday Campaign
BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated.
In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...
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November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
"..as the emails lay bare, there is a highly private merito-aristocracy at the intersection of government and business, lobbying, philanthropy, start-ups, academia, science, high finance and media that all too often takes care of its own more than the common good." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
"..as the emails lay bare, there is a highly private merito-aristocracy at the intersection of government and business, lobbying, philanthropy, start-ups, academia, science, high finance and media that all too often takes care of its own more than the common good." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Evening time machine archive.org/details/Prol...
archive.org
November 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Evening time machine archive.org/details/Prol...
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re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
Enforce the Robinson-Patman Act
New York legislators are considering a bill that’d stop suppliers from giving illegal discounts to big-box stores. It’s a boon to Mamdani’s plan for public grocers. From Emma Janssen: trib.al/wgh81vg
New York Gets Serious About Food Prices - The American Prospect
A proposed state antitrust law has the potential to cut food prices in New York, a boon to Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
trib.al
November 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Enforce the Robinson-Patman Act
Down the rabbit hole laist.com/news/arts-an...
Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy
The project, which will include some 50,000 songs from private record collections, is a collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the Dust-to-Digital Foundation.
laist.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Down the rabbit hole laist.com/news/arts-an...
❤️ this www.npr.org/2025/11/17/n...
A guerrilla gardener installed a pop-up wetland in the LA River. Here's how — and why
Well-meaning city dwellers forgo permits and official procedure to rewild urban areas across the country. In downtown LA, artist Doug Rosenberg is trying to push the grassroots movement forward.
www.npr.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
❤️ this www.npr.org/2025/11/17/n...
"It’s a work in progress, but the work has resulted in progress." quote from Bryan Washington in this weeks NY Times Book Review.
November 16, 2025 at 12:43 PM
"It’s a work in progress, but the work has resulted in progress." quote from Bryan Washington in this weeks NY Times Book Review.
Another PE success story. How much will they destroy? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/b...
How Private Equity’s Vision for a Roofing Conglomerate Went Bust
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Another PE success story. How much will they destroy? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/b...
Worthwhile read " In that sense, Americans are prisoners of capitalism, politically, financially, and economically. The only real point of political institutions, of financial institutions, and of economic ones at this point is: the stock market must rise" www.theissue.io/the-bubble-a...
The Bubble and the Crash, or Trump and the Death Rattle of the American Economy
There’s the American stock market, teetering on the edge on an historic crash. And there’s Trump. Now desperately everything he can to prevent it. Signing “trade deals” furiously, as if America didn’t...
www.theissue.io
November 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Worthwhile read " In that sense, Americans are prisoners of capitalism, politically, financially, and economically. The only real point of political institutions, of financial institutions, and of economic ones at this point is: the stock market must rise" www.theissue.io/the-bubble-a...