#redistribution — Public Fediverse posts

lunedì 25 maggio ore 21
TRASFORMAZIONI URBANISTICHE DI FIRENZE
assemblea pubblica di Sinistra Progetto Comune

Lunedì 25 maggio 2026, alle 21:00, presso il Circolo ARCI Bencini (via Mercadante 58, Firenze), assemblea pubblica di Sinistra Progetto Comune sulle trasformazioni urbanistiche della Città. Partecipazione libera e gratuita.

#firenze #città #urbanistica #cantieri #trasformazioni #transition #justice #politics #policymaking #citymaking #redistribution #florence #assembly ✊✊✊⚜️⚜️⚜️

https://www.cpb.nl/publicatie/de-hoogste-bomen-vangen-minder-wind-belastingdruk-op-inkomens-en-vermogens

#tax #wealth #redistribution #NL

Extreme wealth: Time to change the rules of the game. Many high net worth people and their children want more equitable distribution of wealth. They aren't often featured in the debate of #wealth #taxation #redistribution #davos
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/extreme-wealth-time-to-change-the-rules-of-the-game/

Property is Violence: My continuing dialogue with Claude on the Two Valleys parable.

🏠 https://philosophics.blog/2026/02/06/comrade-claude-3-state-violence/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

#philosophy #power #property #rights #violence #markets #justification #redistribution #instability #challenge #politics #history #blog #podcast

A quotation from Douglas Adams

NARRATOR: This planet has, or had, a problem which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humourist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Phase 1, “Fit the 2nd” (BBC Radio) (1978-03-15)

More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/34708/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #avarice #economicinjustice #economics #greed #incomeinequality #money #poverty #redistribution #spending #unhappiness
#wealth

A quotation from Douglas Adams

NARRATOR: This planet has, or had, a problem which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humourist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Phase 1, “Fit the 2nd” (BBC Radio) (1978-03-15)

More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/34708/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #avarice #economicinjustice #economics #greed #incomeinequality #money #poverty #redistribution #spending #unhappiness
#wealth

A quotation from Douglas Adams

NARRATOR: This planet has, or had, a problem which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humourist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Phase 1, “Fit the 2nd” (BBC Radio) (1978-03-15)

More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/34708/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #avarice #economicinjustice #economics #greed #incomeinequality #money #poverty #redistribution #spending #unhappiness
#wealth

A quotation from Douglas Adams

NARRATOR: This planet has, or had, a problem which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humourist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Phase 1, “Fit the 2nd” (BBC Radio) (1978-03-15)

More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/34708/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #avarice #economicinjustice #economics #greed #incomeinequality #money #poverty #redistribution #spending #unhappiness
#wealth

A quotation from Douglas Adams

NARRATOR: This planet has, or had, a problem which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humourist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Phase 1, “Fit the 2nd” (BBC Radio) (1978-03-15)

More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/34708/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #avarice #economicinjustice #economics #greed #incomeinequality #money #poverty #redistribution #spending #unhappiness
#wealth

#Shoplifting is simply #wealth #redistribution.

https://wir2026.wid.world/www-site/uploads/2025/12/World_Inequality_Report_2026.pdf

"#Inequality is a #political choice. It is the result of our #policies, #institutions, and #governance structures. The costs of escalating inequality are clear: widening divides, fragile #democracies, and a #climate #crisis borne most heavily by those least responsible. But the possibilities of reform are equally clear. Where #redistribution is strong, #taxation is fair, and #social investment is prioritized, inequality narrows."

"... #Convenience and ease are values that have arisen largely because the #oligarchs have nothing better to sell us. Good health care, good housing, better transportation: selling us actual improvements to #society has been deemed too expensive, and providing us with improvements on these core components of a decent life would require a real #redistribution of #wealth. They may even require a reordering of society, so they’re off the table. In their place we get #apps that save us 5 minutes in the planning of our week, or #chatbots that save us two seconds of Googling, or #AI music apps that save us hours of learning to really make #art."

https://www.jphilll.com/p/reject-ai-art

Looming affordability crisis set to hit Americans with #health #insurance through #work

The expiration planned by Congress next month for the “tax credits” (aka subsidies) that allow states to provide the public's access to the healthcare marketplace will create a sudden shock of hundreds of thousands - more likely in the millions - of Americans no longer able to get sickness, disease, and injuries treated; will begin a new period of #medical, #economic and #social collapse. This is combined with massive increases to private insurance including employer-provided plans & programs, and the effective end to all #Medicaid-associated programs nationwide next fall. An avoidable human #catastrophe from #MAGA, which the majority of the US public is only beginning to notice.
#healthNews #laborNews #labor #USlabor #workers #unions #redistribution #plunder #billionaireSubsidy #wealthTransfer #healthTransfer #insurance #HealthcareIsAHumanRight #limitedPayers #m4a #expandMedicare
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/20/insurance-premiums-employer-increase-affordability-00660176

> It’s a perilous combination for 165 million people with employer-sponsored health insurance. Premiums are rising, while yearly pay raises shrink.

Federalism: obstacle or engine of redistribution?
#Federalism #Economy #Redistribution #EconomicJustice #SocialEquality #Inequality #WealthGap #EconomicPolicy #FederalSystems #SocialJustice #Poverty #PublicFinance #EquitableGrowth #Governance
https://the-14.com/federalism-obstacle-or-engine-of-redistribution/

A quotation from The Bible

And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common. […] Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, and laid them down at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.
 
[Τοῦ δὲ πλήθους τῶν πιστευσάντων ἦν καρδία καὶ ψυχὴ μία, καὶ οὐδὲ εἷς τι τῶν ὑπαρχόντων αὐτῷ ἔλεγεν ἴδιον εἶναι ἀλλ᾽ ἦν αὐτοῖς ἅπαντα κοινά. […] οὐδὲ γὰρ ἐνδεής τις ἦν ἐν αὐτοῖς· ὅσοι γὰρ κτήτορες χωρίων ἢ οἰκιῶν ὑπῆρχον, πωλοῦντες ἔφερον τὰς τιμὰς τῶν πιπρασκομένων καὶ ἐτίθουν παρὰ τοὺς πόδας τῶν ἀποστόλων, διεδίδετο δὲ ἑκάστῳ καθότι ἄν τις χρείαν εἶχεν.]

The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Acts 4: 32, 34-35 [KJV (1611)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-nt/79660/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #newtestament #actsoftheapostles #apostles #charity #Christianity #Christians #commongood #commune #community #donation #incommon #need #property #redistribution #sharethewealth #sharing

I think I agree with almost every proposal stated in this text:

"With regards to information, the challenge is to design intellectual property laws that restrict the right of private parties with proprietary knowledge to extort the rest of society and stifle innovation in the process. This means shortening the life of patents and increasing the requirements for awarding one. At least in certain critical fields of knowledge production, such as life-saving medicine, a strong case can even be made for scrapping patents altogether in favor of a fixed number of payments to inventors of new drugs and treatments. Financing open-source platforms, coding languages, and hardware is another avenue for democratizing control over information.

Under the umbrella of predistribution, we can also place policies that significantly affect the broader economic environment. Antitrust laws are one example. By aggressively curtailing anticompetitive practices, regulators prevent the dominant firms in any given sector from calcifying their power on the market over sellers and buyers alike.

Another example of a predistributive policy is the much-debated national job guarantee. Such a policy would force the private sector to contract on terms that are at least as desirable as those found outside of it — or face a drying up of applicants.

Now, it is not my intent to offer a full-throated defense of these policies, some of which recommend themselves better than others. My aim is rather to draw attention to the thread that is common to all of them. By recognizing that the market rewards relative scarcity, predistribution acts to shift the power that accrues to asset holders in societies characterized by highly unequal ownership."

https://jacobin.com/2025/10/left-inequality-predistribution-economic-policy

#Predistribution #LaborLaw #JobGuarantee #Redistribution #PoliticalEonomy #Inequality

Earth Has Tilted 31.5 Inches. That Shouldn't Happen [groundwater pumping]
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https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a65515974/why-earth-has-tilted-science/ <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL103509 <-- shared paper
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“ • When humans pump groundwater, it has a substantial impact on the tilt of Earth’s rotation.
• Additionally, a study document [link above] just how much of an influence groundwater pumping has on climate change.
• Understanding this relatively recent data may provide a better understanding of how to help stave off sea-level rise…"
#hydrology #groundwater #depletion #pumping #extraction #sealevelrise #SLR #global #globe #earthtilt #humanimpacts #waterresources #anthropogenic #climatechange #model #modeling #monitoring #earth #rotation #water #redistribution #drift #pole #observation #spinaxis

A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

The millions who are in want will not stand by silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy reach.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Speech (1932-05-22), Commencement, Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Georgia

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #fdr #franklinroosevelt #franklindroosevelt #franklindelanoroosevelt #economicinjustice #impoverished #needy #poor #poverty #protest #redistribution #revolution #socialunrest #taking #unrest #want