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#inequality — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #inequality, aggregated by home.social.

  1. 🚨Most people want a fairer society, a working #democracy, a protected planet! 🌍😍

    So why split the vote and let the #FarRight in to destroy it all? 🤬

    Sign the @CompassOffice open letter urging #progressive leaders to cooperate at the next #election!👇 #StrongerTogether 💪😉
    #Politics #Inequality #HumanRights #SaveOurPlanet #Justice #Accountability

    actionnetwork.org/forms/unite-

  2. One way to be clear about the geographic wealth inequality in the UK is to look at inheritance tax receipts (remembering that only about 5% of estates pay IHT at all).

    What we see is that such wealth is skewed towards London & SE England, which is no surprise but what perhaps is, is that across the London region IHT tax receipts were higher than totals for Scotland & Wales, together!

    No wonder the rich were quietly backing the Farmers 'farm tax' protests!

    #politics #wealth #inequality

  3. 📄 A newly published #ESRC #ConnectingGenerations study shows that the way #youngpeople move from school into #work has lasting effects on whether they own a #home or have #savings and #investments by their early 30s, with #family background amplifying these outcomes.

    Dr Vincent Ramos, lead author, said: “Policies addressing early #labourmarket instability and improving access to #assetbuilding opportunities are crucial to reducing long‑term #inequality.”

    Find out more: cpc.ac.uk/news/latest_news/?st

  4. "…to many, the biggest A.I. labs now loom like the new faces of American #oligarchy, as well — a fearsome concentration of economic and social power producing a self-compounding pattern of extreme #inequality of the kind that has lacerated American life for decades. If the #future lies with #AI, as we are so often told, it is unsettling to many and outrageous to some that so few people seem to stand in such absolute control of it."

    nytimes.com/2026/05/08/magazin

  5. "…to many, the biggest A.I. labs now loom like the new faces of American #oligarchy, as well — a fearsome concentration of economic and social power producing a self-compounding pattern of extreme #inequality of the kind that has lacerated American life for decades. If the #future lies with #AI, as we are so often told, it is unsettling to many and outrageous to some that so few people seem to stand in such absolute control of it."

    nytimes.com/2026/05/08/magazin

  6. "…to many, the biggest A.I. labs now loom like the new faces of American , as well — a fearsome concentration of economic and social power producing a self-compounding pattern of extreme of the kind that has lacerated American life for decades. If the lies with , as we are so often told, it is unsettling to many and outrageous to some that so few people seem to stand in such absolute control of it."

    nytimes.com/2026/05/08/magazin

  7. "…to many, the biggest A.I. labs now loom like the new faces of American #oligarchy, as well — a fearsome concentration of economic and social power producing a self-compounding pattern of extreme #inequality of the kind that has lacerated American life for decades. If the #future lies with #AI, as we are so often told, it is unsettling to many and outrageous to some that so few people seem to stand in such absolute control of it."

    nytimes.com/2026/05/08/magazin

  8. "…to many, the biggest A.I. labs now loom like the new faces of American #oligarchy, as well — a fearsome concentration of economic and social power producing a self-compounding pattern of extreme #inequality of the kind that has lacerated American life for decades. If the #future lies with #AI, as we are so often told, it is unsettling to many and outrageous to some that so few people seem to stand in such absolute control of it."

    nytimes.com/2026/05/08/magazin

  9. Poor "Like young girls everywhere Katriona O’Sullivan grew up bright, enthusiastic, curious. But" Sale: $21.99 to $0.99 by Katriona O'Sullivan Rating: 4.5/5 (11,837 Reviews) #memoir #poverty #education #sociology #booksky #books #inspiration #biography #inequality

    Amazon.com

  10. 2/ This is not just within #Europe but relevant globally. We can fix this very easily if we tax the wealthy and use the revenues to provide essential things such as #food #water #electricity #housing #healthcare #education #safety #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #inequality #justice #aid