“How private equity shapes a ski town.”
wealth inequality
Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Happily Never After
By protecting ourselves and no one else, we destroy ourselves along with everyone else.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Culture, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
Zuckerberg’s Trash Is a Subculture’s Treasure
An entire subculture of Bay Area residents survives by reselling wealthy residents’ trash.
Posted inNonfiction
A Rich Awakening
The only way to get wealth equality is for the rich to give up their power, but how do you get them to do that?
Posted inBusiness, Business & Tech, Highlight, Quotes, Technology
You Have to Make Money to Make Money
Is that not how the saying goes? Someone tell Amazon.
Posted inBusiness, History, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
How Offshore Banking Destroyed Everything
This is the story of how a handfull of mega-rich ended up hoarding most of the world’s wealth.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The ‘Creative Class’ Were Just the Rich All Along
Urban theorist Richard Florida seems to have realized he was wrong about the broad benefits of attracting creatives to depressed cities.