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dreaming… a random bit

** in the ending of The Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenges from WordPress, here’s your Sunday Weekly Photo Prompt: travel **

medicine buddha mantra: Tayata Om Bekandze Bekandze Maha Bekandze Radza Samudgate Soha

health, wealth, and prosperity: Om Vasudhare Svaha

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windows

dreaming… a random bit

** in the ending of The Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenges from WordPress, here’s your Sunday Weekly Photo Prompt: travel **

medicine buddha mantra: Tayata Om Bekandze Bekandze Maha Bekandze Radza Samudgate Soha

health, wealth, and prosperity: Om Vasudhare Svaha

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What are "safety regulations"?

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2170917/what-are-safety-regulations

What are "safety regulations"?

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2170917/what-are-safety-regulations

how #capitalism destroys itself: #Inequality as structural feature: #wealth concentration has returned to #GildedAge levels in many countries. top 1% owns roughly 45% of global #wealth (= #assets such as #houses #land #water #energy #minerals)

Demand erosion: Extreme #inequality hollows out #consumer base that #capitalism depends on.

#seigniorage problem = private institution (or semi-private, as #Fed) has #power to create #money, captures enormous #wealth (#assets) simply through act of creation — before money has done anything productive

most powerful + least visible form of #wealth #extraction ever invented

harder truth: If #moneyprinting and #asset #ownership have become so divorced from productive #economic #activity that only destruction and conflict #war seem to #reset the system, that suggests the #system itself is #fundamentallybroken—not that war solves anything.
#warning even #revolution will be #manipulated to maximum extend https://mas.to/@wordmark/116714161816968079

how #capitalism destroys itself: #Inequality as a structural feature: Wealth concentration has returned to #GildedAge levels in many countries. The top 1% owns roughly 45% of global #wealth ( = #assets such as #houses #land #water #energy #minerals )

Demand erosion: Extreme #inequality hollows out the #consumer base that #capitalism depends on.

The #seigniorage problem. When a private institution (or semi-private, as the #Fed is) has the power to create #money, it captures enormous #wealth (#assets) simply through the act of creation — before that money has even done anything productive

most powerful and least visible form of wealth extraction ever invented

The harder truth: If #moneyprinting and #asset #ownership have become so divorced from productive #economic #activity that only destruction and conflict #war seem to #reset the system, that suggests the #system itself is #fundamentallybroken—not that war solves anything.

While we have no kings
Americans built castles
But never kingdoms

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #May #Kings #NoKings #Castle #RobberBaron #RubberBaron #GildedAge #America #StanHywet #Akron #Spring #Poetry #Ohio #USA #Photography #2026

May 18, 2026

While we have no kings
Americans built castles
But never kingdoms

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #May #Kings #NoKings #Castle #RobberBaron #RubberBaron #GildedAge #America #StanHywet #Akron #Spring #Poetry #Ohio #USA #Photography #2026

May 18, 2026

While we have no kings
Americans built castles
But never kingdoms

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #May #Kings #NoKings #Castle #RobberBaron #RubberBaron #GildedAge #America #StanHywet #Akron #Spring #Poetry #Ohio #USA #Photography #2026

May 18, 2026

While we have no kings
Americans built castles
But never kingdoms

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #May #Kings #NoKings #Castle #RobberBaron #RubberBaron #GildedAge #America #StanHywet #Akron #Spring #Poetry #Ohio #USA #Photography #2026

May 18, 2026

While we have no kings
Americans built castles
But never kingdoms

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #May #Kings #NoKings #Castle #RobberBaron #RubberBaron #GildedAge #America #StanHywet #Akron #Spring #Poetry #Ohio #USA #Photography #2026

May 18, 2026

City Beautiful Blog profiles the Helmsley Building on Park Avenue — the Beaux-Arts skyscraper built as headquarters for Cornelius Vanderbilt's New York Central Railroad. Traffic passes through its base via two monumental portals, its copper roof was once gilded in gold leaf, and a 6,000-watt lantern in the cupola was visible for miles. A building with layers worth knowing about.
#NYCHistory #Architecture #BeauxArts #GildedAge #NewYork
https://citybeautifulblog.com/the-helmsley-building/

City Beautiful Blog profiles the Helmsley Building on Park Avenue — the Beaux-Arts skyscraper built as headquarters for Cornelius Vanderbilt's New York Central Railroad. Traffic passes through its base via two monumental portals, its copper roof was once gilded in gold leaf, and a 6,000-watt lantern in the cupola was visible for miles. A building with layers worth knowing about.
#NYCHistory #Architecture #BeauxArts #GildedAge #NewYork
https://citybeautifulblog.com/the-helmsley-building/

City Beautiful Blog profiles the Helmsley Building on Park Avenue — the Beaux-Arts skyscraper built as headquarters for Cornelius Vanderbilt's New York Central Railroad. Traffic passes through its base via two monumental portals, its copper roof was once gilded in gold leaf, and a 6,000-watt lantern in the cupola was visible for miles. A building with layers worth knowing about.
#NYCHistory #Architecture #BeauxArts #GildedAge #NewYork
https://citybeautifulblog.com/the-helmsley-building/

City Beautiful Blog profiles the Helmsley Building on Park Avenue — the Beaux-Arts skyscraper built as headquarters for Cornelius Vanderbilt's New York Central Railroad. Traffic passes through its base via two monumental portals, its copper roof was once gilded in gold leaf, and a 6,000-watt lantern in the cupola was visible for miles. A building with layers worth knowing about.
#NYCHistory #Architecture #BeauxArts #GildedAge #NewYork
https://citybeautifulblog.com/the-helmsley-building/

City Beautiful Blog profiles the Helmsley Building on Park Avenue — the Beaux-Arts skyscraper built as headquarters for Cornelius Vanderbilt's New York Central Railroad. Traffic passes through its base via two monumental portals, its copper roof was once gilded in gold leaf, and a 6,000-watt lantern in the cupola was visible for miles. A building with layers worth knowing about.
#NYCHistory #Architecture #BeauxArts #GildedAge #NewYork
https://citybeautifulblog.com/the-helmsley-building/

@GhostOnTheHalfShell
I found this para an interesting summary… albeit usual depressing ending
(the rest of the article is about American billionaires’ “giving pledges” - now out of fashion, apparently):
“Wealth last concentrated at such levels during the original Gilded Age, the 1890s through the early 1900s, and the correction didn’t come from philanthropists. It came from trust-busting, the federal income tax, the estate tax, and eventually the New Deal. It arrived as policy that was driven by political pressure too powerful to be ignored. The institutions that forced that correction — a functional Congress, a free press, an empowered regulatory state — look considerably different today.”
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/the-billionaires-made-a-promise-now-some-want-out/

#wealthConcentration #GildedAge #correction #taxes #institutions #USPol
#reconnectingconsequencesToCauses

@jerry

@GhostOnTheHalfShell
I found this para an interesting summary… albeit usual depressing ending
(the rest of the article is about American billionaires’ “giving pledges” - now out of fashion, apparently):
“Wealth last concentrated at such levels during the original Gilded Age, the 1890s through the early 1900s, and the correction didn’t come from philanthropists. It came from trust-busting, the federal income tax, the estate tax, and eventually the New Deal. It arrived as policy that was driven by political pressure too powerful to be ignored. The institutions that forced that correction — a functional Congress, a free press, an empowered regulatory state — look considerably different today.”
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/the-billionaires-made-a-promise-now-some-want-out/

#wealthConcentration #GildedAge #correction #taxes #institutions #USPol
#reconnectingconsequencesToCauses

@jerry

@GhostOnTheHalfShell
I found this para an interesting summary… albeit usual depressing ending
(the rest of the article is about American billionaires’ “giving pledges” - now out of fashion, apparently):
“Wealth last concentrated at such levels during the original Gilded Age, the 1890s through the early 1900s, and the correction didn’t come from philanthropists. It came from trust-busting, the federal income tax, the estate tax, and eventually the New Deal. It arrived as policy that was driven by political pressure too powerful to be ignored. The institutions that forced that correction — a functional Congress, a free press, an empowered regulatory state — look considerably different today.”
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/the-billionaires-made-a-promise-now-some-want-out/

#wealthConcentration #GildedAge #correction #taxes #institutions #USPol
#reconnectingconsequencesToCauses

@jerry

@GhostOnTheHalfShell
I found this para an interesting summary… albeit usual depressing ending
(the rest of the article is about American billionaires’ “giving pledges” - now out of fashion, apparently):
“Wealth last concentrated at such levels during the original Gilded Age, the 1890s through the early 1900s, and the correction didn’t come from philanthropists. It came from trust-busting, the federal income tax, the estate tax, and eventually the New Deal. It arrived as policy that was driven by political pressure too powerful to be ignored. The institutions that forced that correction — a functional Congress, a free press, an empowered regulatory state — look considerably different today.”
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/the-billionaires-made-a-promise-now-some-want-out/

#wealthConcentration #GildedAge #correction #taxes #institutions #USPol
#reconnectingconsequencesToCauses

@jerry

@GhostOnTheHalfShell
I found this para an interesting summary… albeit usual depressing ending
(the rest of the article is about American billionaires’ “giving pledges” - now out of fashion, apparently):
“Wealth last concentrated at such levels during the original Gilded Age, the 1890s through the early 1900s, and the correction didn’t come from philanthropists. It came from trust-busting, the federal income tax, the estate tax, and eventually the New Deal. It arrived as policy that was driven by political pressure too powerful to be ignored. The institutions that forced that correction — a functional Congress, a free press, an empowered regulatory state — look considerably different today.”
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/the-billionaires-made-a-promise-now-some-want-out/

#wealthConcentration #GildedAge #correction #taxes #institutions #USPol
#reconnectingconsequencesToCauses

@jerry

@peterjriley2024 "Gould, with his seventy millions, was one of the colossal failures of our time. He was a purely selfish man. His greed consumed his charity. He was like death and hell - gathering in all, giving back nothing. To build up an immense fortune for one's self by fraud is a disgrace to the age, a mockery to virtue, a menace to public welfare."

#GildedAge #RobberBaron

@peterjriley2024 "Gould, with his seventy millions, was one of the colossal failures of our time. He was a purely selfish man. His greed consumed his charity. He was like death and hell - gathering in all, giving back nothing. To build up an immense fortune for one's self by fraud is a disgrace to the age, a mockery to virtue, a menace to public welfare."

#GildedAge #RobberBaron

@peterjriley2024 "Gould, with his seventy millions, was one of the colossal failures of our time. He was a purely selfish man. His greed consumed his charity. He was like death and hell - gathering in all, giving back nothing. To build up an immense fortune for one's self by fraud is a disgrace to the age, a mockery to virtue, a menace to public welfare."

#GildedAge #RobberBaron

@peterjriley2024 "Gould, with his seventy millions, was one of the colossal failures of our time. He was a purely selfish man. His greed consumed his charity. He was like death and hell - gathering in all, giving back nothing. To build up an immense fortune for one's self by fraud is a disgrace to the age, a mockery to virtue, a menace to public welfare."

#GildedAge #RobberBaron

@peterjriley2024 "Gould, with his seventy millions, was one of the colossal failures of our time. He was a purely selfish man. His greed consumed his charity. He was like death and hell - gathering in all, giving back nothing. To build up an immense fortune for one's self by fraud is a disgrace to the age, a mockery to virtue, a menace to public welfare."

#GildedAge #RobberBaron

Shout out to Logan Roy’s stately #Manhattan #apartment at 991 Fifth Ave., which faces the The Met and is in real life the American Irish Historical Society.

#luxury #realestate #architecture #gildedage #mansion #NYC #NewYork #Succession #LoganRoy #home #tv #filmlocation

https://www.6sqft.com/rare-gilded-age-mansion-on-fifth-avenue-hits-the-market-for-52m/

Shout out to Logan Roy’s stately #Manhattan #apartment at 991 Fifth Ave., which faces the The Met and is in real life the American Irish Historical Society.

#luxury #realestate #architecture #gildedage #mansion #NYC #NewYork #Succession #LoganRoy #home #tv #filmlocation

https://www.6sqft.com/rare-gilded-age-mansion-on-fifth-avenue-hits-the-market-for-52m/

Shout out to Logan Roy’s stately #Manhattan #apartment at 991 Fifth Ave., which faces the The Met and is in real life the American Irish Historical Society.

#luxury #realestate #architecture #gildedage #mansion #NYC #NewYork #Succession #LoganRoy #home #tv #filmlocation

https://www.6sqft.com/rare-gilded-age-mansion-on-fifth-avenue-hits-the-market-for-52m/

Shout out to Logan Roy’s stately #Manhattan #apartment at 991 Fifth Ave., which faces the The Met and is in real life the American Irish Historical Society.

#luxury #realestate #architecture #gildedage #mansion #NYC #NewYork #Succession #LoganRoy #home #tv #filmlocation

https://www.6sqft.com/rare-gilded-age-mansion-on-fifth-avenue-hits-the-market-for-52m/