#incomegap — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #incomegap, aggregated by home.social.
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The Muslim wage gap in Canada’s largest metro area costs workers an estimated $1.2 billion a year
#Islamophobia #Canada #Muslims #WageGap #Inequality #Employment #Economy #StatisticsCanada #SocialJustice #IncomeGap #SystemicDiscrimination #WorkersRights
https://the-14.com/the-muslim-wage-gap-in-canadas-largest-metro-area-costs-workers-an-estimated-1-2-billion-a-year/ -
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics."
Plutarch
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Wealth inequality reaches new heights: What the data says about America’s future https://www.psypost.org/wealth-inequality-reaches-new-heights-what-the-data-says-about-americas-future/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #WealthInequality #EconomicJustice #IncomeGap #SocialImpact #WealthDistribution
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“The chief executives of FTSE 100 companies will have made more money in 2025 by midday on Monday than their average worker does in a whole year [....] Median pay for FTSE 100 chief executives is £4.22m, 113 times the median full-time worker’s pay of £37,430”
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Governments and their politicians are removed from reality and only seek to maintain current power structures, as that is what benefits them the most.
They know who their constituents are (the rich), and there are no considerations of what the vast majority would benefit from.
There have been no consessions for decades, the income gap is growing, climate change is ravaging the world, inflation is ballooning and yet governments around the world prove themselves feckless, incapable of doing the bare minimum for the worker. Instead they give more to their powerful friends who already have money, and claiming that it will help the rest of society. They shall be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
Revolution will come for them, and the people will pick up the pieces on the path to something better.
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NYT article (paywall, sorry) about how Paris turns empty buildings into affordable public housing.
$$$ quote:
"Our guiding philosophy is that those who produce the riches of the city must have the right to live in it"
Imagine that!
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/17/realestate/paris-france-housing-costs.html
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Good-looking and attractive people make 5% more money than ordinary ones, economic research finds
https://fortune.com/2024/02/03/attractiveness-pay-premium-pretty-privilege-economist-daniel-hamermes/ #economics #incomegap #beauty #labor #inequality -
Income levels are correlated with AI usage in Norway: High earners are more likely to use AI (39%), compared to only <25% in lower income brackets. Financial means may play a role in access and familiarity with AI technologies. Will AI lead to more inequality over time? #IncomeGap 4/10
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New GOP Bills Would Hand Richest 1% Over $28 Billion in Tax Cuts Next Year
#CommonDreams #GOPtaxCuts #wealthinequality #taxreform #economicjustice #incomegap #Politics #News
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He gave this speech the year I was born. The problems remain. The wealth and income gaps are far worse now than then, and there are still far more bipoc folks on the impoverished side of the gap. The work is not done.
Transcript: https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/the-other-america-speech-transcript-martin-luther-king-jr
#mlkjr #civilrights #wealthgap #incomegap #institutionalracism
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Gotta love this Wealth shown to scale website https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
It's pretty amazing storytelling. Also excellent web design. Plus my finger is tired from scrolling, I'll never reach the end!