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wealth inequality

Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story

Happily Never After

by Soraya Roberts January 14, 2020December 30, 2022

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

by Aaron Gilbreath April 9, 2019October 19, 2022

An entire subculture of Bay Area residents survives by reselling wealthy residents’ trash.

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story

A Rich Awakening

by Soraya Roberts April 5, 2019October 19, 2022

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

by michelleweber December 11, 2018October 19, 2022

Is that not how the saying goes? Someone tell Amazon.

Posted inBusiness, History, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

How Offshore Banking Destroyed Everything

by Aaron Gilbreath September 14, 2018October 19, 2022

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

by Sari Botton August 23, 2017October 19, 2022

Urban theorist Richard Florida seems to have realized he was wrong about the broad benefits of attracting creatives to depressed cities.

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