Fast food is the most consumed and the most socially stigmatised category of food in the world simultaneously. The contradiction is not accidental — and the shame it generates is doing a different kind of work.
https://riftlymedia.com/?p=2960
#inequality — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #inequality, aggregated by home.social.
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How we lost our appetite for eat-the-rich satire
By Alastair RyderTom Cruise’s latest film could lose $250m (£190m) – could one reason be that audiences are tired of Hollywood telling them what they already know about the super-rich?
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/14/how-we-lost-our-appetite-for-eat-the-rich-satire
#Film #Digger #WarnerBros #Classissues #DonaldTrump #ParamountPictures #Saltburn #TomCruise #Inequality #Culture #Filmcriticism #AlejandroGonzlezIrritu #Filmindustry #TheGuardian #AlastairRyder
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How we lost our appetite for eat-the-rich satire https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/14/how-we-lost-our-appetite-for-eat-the-rich-satire #Film #Digger #WarnerBros #ClassIssues #DonaldTrump #ParamountPictures #Saltburn #TomCruise #Inequality #Culture #FilmCriticism #AlejandroGonzlezIrritu #FilmIndustry
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Considering that it’s getting harder and harder for people to buy a home, I don’t know where you think I’m going to put all these smart home devices you’re trying to sell me…
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Violence Against Children in Australia
Australian data reveal sharp rise in recorded violence against children over past decade
* "Research published today by University of Sydney researchers has found that both sexual assault and family violence-related assault involving children increased sharply across Australia from 2014 to 2024, with violence accelerating in the last three to five years."
"We are at a crisis point. Sexual assault and family and domestic violence have increased over the decade, but what's particularly concerning is that the steepest increases were in the last three to five years." >>
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-australian-reveal-sharp-violence-children.html* "Violence against children is a fundamental breach of human rights."
Lucinda Grummitt et al., Trends in Violence Against Children in Australia, JAMA Network Open (2026). DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.38285 >>
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2855265
#violence #children #infants #MinorityRights #HumanRights #MisogynisticCultures #GenderNorms #FamilyViolence #family #FDV #MasculinityNarratives #SexualHarm #GenderBaseViolence #inequality #culture -
IMF misses the mark on growth: Ai, WMDs and now Trump with Putin driving oil and gas racketeering. What could possibly go wrong other than a great collapse from world debt and bloody revolutions? End the growth of the toxic hell scape before it is too late! #IMF #AuthoritarianMobsters #CorporateSovereignty #Inequality #Injustice #Justice #Rights #Freedom #DiverseInterests #EthicalDemocracy #RepublicSovereignty https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/world-faces-risk-cocktail-ai-060000417.html
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https://www.france24.com/en/business/20261013-imf-upgrades-2026-global-growth-forecast-but-war-and-debt-threaten-outlook. The #IMF prescribing its usual #medicine - calling on #countries to cut #public #spending & #borrowing, regardless of how #poor they or their people are, or how great the level of #inequality in them.
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"The modern Anglophone novel is arguably even more plagued by Bernhardism, perhaps because Thomas Bernhard’s ranting seems so naturally attuned to a world of polarised politics, conspiracy theories and social isolation, in which atomised individuals can yell into the cloud on whatever platform best reflects (or clashes with) their ideological preferences."
Written as a single sentence, Adam Ouston’s Mine is a novel under the influence
"The majority of the novel is dedicated to an inventive retelling of the creation of the Mount Lyell mine and the horrific mistreatment of the natural world and the workers at the behest of industry and government. Mine explicitly connects this historical event with ongoing Tasmanian corruption and cronyism. It suggests that the state’s institutions are run by the second-rate failsons and faildaughters of a squattocracy, inept at doing anything other than maintaining their own wealth and standing." >>
https://theconversation.com/written-as-a-single-sentence-adam-oustons-mine-is-a-novel-under-the-influence-281227
#writing #books #Anglophone #Bernhardism #Australia #Individualism #colonialisation #inequality #dispossession #hauntology #mining #extractivism #EnvironmentalDevastation #SettlerSociety #SocialAtomism #AtomisedIndividuals #belonging #CommonGood #agora #parrhesia -
@JapanProf
The US is looking less like a democracy and more like a plutocracy, where billionaires buy political influence and ordinary people get sidelined.
We have our own Musk wannabes in Gina Rinehart, Twiggy Forrest and their ilk. Wealth shouldn’t buy political power. We cannot let Australia’s democracy become another playground for oligarchs.
Don’t be fooled by One Nation’s promises. Look at who funds them and who stands to benefit. The promises may never eventuate, but the policies can still serve the mega wealthy. -
IMF Alert: Poorer Households Bear Disproportionate Inflation Burden as Food and Energy Prices Soar
Rising food and energy prices disproportionately affect the poor. The article explains that targeted financial assistance is better in protecting vulnerable households, and at the same time, it serves to stabilize the state budget.
#IMF #InflationCrisis #CostOfLiving #FoodInflation #EnergyCrisis #GlobalEconomy #Poverty #Inequality #EconomicNews #WorldNews
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What actually makes societies more resilient against collapse?
Earlier this year I spoke at the World Adaptation Forum and used the opportunity to compare the major theories of societal collapse: Limits to Growth, Structural Demographic Theory and Goliath's Curse.
They disagree on a lot, but they agree on one thing: resilience is key. And it rests on three pillars:
→ Strong democracy
→ Low inequality
→ Staying within planetary boundariesNo country has all three yet, but we could get there!
You can find there talk here: https://youtu.be/MXKARisimyM
#Inequality #Democracy #PlanetaryBoundaries #SocietalCollapse #Collapse