#inequalities — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #inequalities, aggregated by home.social.
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"The Case for California’s Billionaire Wealth Tax", today’s NYT Op-Ed from Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez: https://web.archive.org/web/20260526122143/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/05/26/opinion/wealth-tax-california-billionaire.html
The iceberg images are especially striking. 78% of Zuckerberg's, Page's, Brin's, Huang's wealth accumulation is “underwater” .
#wealthTax #CGT #taxTheRich #California #wealth #money #accumulation #inequality #inequalities #households #Zuckerberg #MarckZuckerberg #LarryPage #SergeyBrin #JensenHuang #Meta #Google #Nvidia #AIBubble #Zucman #Saez
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"If you’re broke or close to it, the first $100,000 of wealth has incredible utility. If you’ve already got $10M, you may barely notice another $100K."
A ranking of countries by average personal wealth utility: https://wealtheconomics.substack.com/p/is-a-more-broadly-prosperous-country
#wellBeing #wealth #money #accumulation #taxes #macroEconomics #inequality #inequalities #households #taxTheRich #redistribution #reallocation #Norway #NL #Taiwan #Canada #Belgium #Switzerland #Australia #Denmark
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Public Lecture | Master MUSIC IN SOCIETY Lecture
CREATIVE WORK: FROM CRITIQUES OF ‘DIVERSITY’ TO ATTACKS ON DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION
Rosalind Gill (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
Correspondent: Christina Scharff (King’s College London, UK)20 November 2025 | 18:00
mdw Campus
Banquet HaalMore info: 👉 https://www.mdw.ac.at/ims/events/lecture-creative-work
#creativework #culturalwork #diversity #equity #inclusion #musicsociology #musicinsociety #culturalsociology #culturaltheory #socialtheory #sociology #culturalstudies #genderstudies #socialsciences #humanities #inequality #inequalities #class #race #ethnicity #gender #feminist #queer #antiracist #music #art #film #television #fashion #architecture #design #mdw
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"The wealthier a household was in 1990, the quicker its wealth has accumulated in the years since. While the top 1% grew its share of total household wealth, all other U.S. wealth groups have seen their shares decrease."
https://archive.is/20250430155240/https://www.wsj.com/economy/1-trillion-richest-families-wealth-increase-bc13874a h/t @John
#wealth #money #accumulation #redirection #appropriation #USPol #neoliberalism #RonaldReagan #taxes #assets #savings #estate #property #ownership #finance #economy #economics #inequalities #concentration #families #TaxTheRich #billionaires
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Radical Food Geographies Power, Knowledge and Resistance
Featured in 2025 CAFS Social, Book Launch and Awards Ceremony
When: June 3, 2025, 7:00-9:30 pm
Where: And/Ore, 1040 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M6J 1H7https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/2025-cafs-social-book-launch-and-awards-ceremony-tickets-1278375047179
#CongreSSH #FoodStudies #Toronto #Food #TorontoFoodie #FoodWays #FoodSovereignty #FoodPolitics #FoodArt #CAFS2025 #ACEA2025
#FoodGeographies #Power #Knowledge #Resistance #Radical #FoodSystems #Inequalities #CaseStudy #Ecology #Land #Water #Sustainable #Praxis
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Radical Food Geographies Power, Knowledge and Resistance presents critical and action-oriented approaches to addressing food systems inequities across places, spaces, and scales.
Featured in 2025 CAFS Social, Book Launch and Awards Ceremony
https://foodstudies.info/news-conferences/upcoming-conference/
#FoodGeographies #Power #Knowledge #Resistance #Radical #FoodSystems #Inequalities #CaseStudy #Ecology #Land #Water #Sustainable #Praxis
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More on why when visualising data about #inequalities it is better to leave viewers with questions and doubts rather than giving them a false sense of certainty in incorrect conclusions.
100% applicable to inequalities within organizations.
#dataviz #PeopleAnalytics #Biases #stereotyping #DEI #Inclusion #FutureOfWork
https://medium.com/santi-garcia/visualising-inequalities-may-make-them-worse-a820460c5e10
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We need to make #inequalities visible. Yet, if not done carefully, raising awareness of inequality can actually make it worse. Recent research reveals that deficit thinking effect can be triggered from ‘neutral’ charts and graphs, so many people will misinterpret data on social disparities as evidence for blaming those differences on the characteristics of the people being visualized.
#dataviz #stereotyping