#wealth-gap — Public Fediverse posts

#Money, the interesting thing about it is if you #exist in #poverty, you desperately need it for your day to day survival, then if your on the opposite end as in being a multi million or billionaire in reality money means nothing, because everything you own and do is leveraged off of debt that you one don't actually own and second can never actually satisfy, and the rules of the game are very different for those in poverty, and the rules are slightly different if your in the middle, but if your on top, the rules don't apply to you unless somehow your generation and hoarding of wealth imposes upon another top income holder, basically if your in poverty all the way to the bottom end of double digit millions, your beholden to the entire state if it where, and beyond that the entire state apparently is beholden to you and your ability to leverage debt, it is a rigged system of epic inequality and strongly embraces prejudice against the rest of us whom simply would appreciate the basics in life to be readily available without so much turmoil, and stress to our mental and physical wellbeing, money is an illusion of power and has left far to many of us going hungry, literally;

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#Austerity #Awareness #BrokenSystem #Capitalism #Change #ChronicPoverty #CorporateGreed #CriticalThinking #DailyStruggle #DebtSlavery #DisabledVoices #DisabilityJustice #EconomicInequality #EconomicJustice #EconomicViolence #Economics #Education #ExistentialThought #Financial #FinancialTrauma #FinanciallyDistressed #FoodInsecurity #Hunger #Homelessness #HumanCost #IllusionOfWealth #Inequality #Justice #LateStageCapitalism #MarginalizedVoices #MentalHealthMatters #MutualAid #Neoliberalism #Oligarchy #PhilosophyOfMoney #Plutocracy #Politics #PovertyAwareness #PowerAndControl #PowerDynamics #RealTalk #Reform #RiggedSystem #SocialCommentary #SocialEconomicWarfare #SocialJustice #Society #Solidarity #SpeakTruth #StatusQuo #SupportDisabled #Survival #SystemicOppression #SystemicPoverty #TaxTheRich #TruthBomb #TruthToPower #WakeUpCall #WealthGap #WealthInequality #WorkingClass #WorkingPoor

The Weather Isn’t the Problem. The Weather Is Just Honest.

Everyone gets rained on. Not everyone gets flooded the same way. My latest on why "resilience" has quietly become the word we use when we mean "keep absorbing the cost and stop asking who's insulated from it."

https://dominusmarkham.com/the-weather-isnt-the-problem-the-weather-is-just-honest/

#ClimateChange #SocialInequality #Resilience #WealthGap #EnvironmentalJustice
#MarkhamUnfiltered #MarkhamOnIt

#uspol #uspolitics #affordability #EatTheRich #WealthGap

America pays workers just 27% of what its wealth allows – the worst in the OECD

https://fortune.com/2026/07/13/us-worst-oecd-fair-pay-score/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48918078

#HackerNews #fairpay #wealthgap #workersrights #economicinequality #oecd

💯 Often, the 99 Percent say that the greedy and heartless One Percent are to blame for the wealth gap that fuels poverty, inequality and injustice.

To the contrary, We, The 99 Percent, are the problem... https://wp.me/pdd6uE-G

🏷️ #Geopolitics #Interdependence #MoneyMatters, #Politics, #Poverty, #Psychology, #SelfEmpowerment, #Society, #Sociology, #WealthGap, #WealthMindset #WhyStartASmallBusiness @zeugmatisse

#WealthGap

Heard of the "wealth gap"?
"The wealth gap has existed since our country’s founding, but it has exploded in the last half century. In 1965, CEO to worker compensation was 20 to 1. In 2025 it ballooned to 285 to 1. For the top 20 companies with low-wage workers, like Walmart and Chipotle, the average is 900 to 1. The CEO of Starbucks makes 6,600 times more than the average barista."
https://substack.com/app-link/post
#WealthGap #Capitalism #CEOPay

#ClassWarfare #EconomicInequality #WealthGap #ProtestSign #SocialJustice #NoBillionaires #TaxTheRich #EatTheRich #GuillotinesWork #NoGoodBillionaires

Yep, it's a #FireHoseUp, not a #TrickleDown #Economy.

What's wrong with a huge #WealthGap? Let me count the ways.(Cont)

The CEOs fighting the CEO tax have the widest pay gaps in S.F.
https://missionlocal.org/2026/05/sf-ceo-tax-pay-gap/

Or is it a firehouse streaming up?

"The analysis also found billionaires were paid $2,500 a second in dividends in 2025, according to the investment portfolios of more than 1,000 billionaires. For every two hours in the 2025, the average billionaire received more in dividends than the average worker earned in annual pay."

#WealthGap #Greed #Unearned

And is it trickling down?

CEO pay soared in 2025, 20 times faster than workers’ pay
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/01/ceo-pay-workers-minimum-wages?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#WealthGap #Greed #Unearned #LivableWage

Racism Is Costing America Everything: Caller Exposes the Economic Truth

A caller exposes how racism drains resources, divides workers, and keeps Americans struggling while elites benefit from economic inequality.

UnitedHealth Group’s earnings were flat, reflecting difficulties w/rising medical costs, government scrutiny & sustained belief they're lying killers making money off preventable deaths of customers. Former CEO Brian Thompson could not be reached for comment. #satire #USpol #WealthGap #health

UnitedHealth Group’s earnings were relatively flat year over year, reflecting difficulties with rising medical costs, government scrutiny and the sustained general public belief they are lying killers making money off the preventable deaths of their customers. Their former CEO Brian Thompson could not be reached for comment.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/business/united-health-group-earnings.html

#satire #USpol #WealthGap #health

Amazon got caught price-fixing with Levi’s, Home Depot, Walmart and others. When reached for comment, Jeff Bezos said, “whatever, poors, keep buying my shit: I’m wanna go to space!” The good news is: pitchfork sales are about to skyrocket. #satire #USpol #WealthGap

Amazon got caught price-fixing with Levi’s, Home Depot, Walmart and others. When reached for comment, Jeff Bezos said, “whatever, poors, keep buying my shit: I’m wanna go to space!” The good news is: pitchfork sales are about to skyrocket.

#satire #USpol #WealthGap

Experts warn AI could widen the wealth gap and wipe out entry-level jobs, hitting low-skill workers hardest while boosting top earners. https://jpmellojr.blogspot.com/2026/04/ai-investment-could-widen-income.html #AI #IncomeInequality #FutureOfWork #WealthGap

Is Capitalism a Fraud? Caller Breaks Down the Endless Extraction Cycle

A caller breaks down how capitalism endlessly extracts, shifts goalposts, and traps workers. A must-hear critique of the system millions are questioning.

Is Capitalism a Fraud? Caller Breaks Down the Endless Extraction Cycle

A caller breaks down how capitalism endlessly extracts, shifts goalposts, and traps workers. A must-hear critique of the system millions are questioning.

bing news | AI boom risks widening wealth divide, says BlackRock’s Larry Fink

Larry Fink, chief executive of BlackRock, warned in his annual letter to investors that the rapid expansion of artificial‑intelligence technology could intensify the existing wealth gap. He noted that, as with past transformative innovations, the majority of the new value tends to flow to those who already own financial assets, and that AI “threatens to repeat that pattern at an even larger scale.” The CEO stressed that while the creation of economic value is inevitable, the critical question is who actually participates in those gains.

Fink highlighted that firms possessing massive data sets, robust infrastructure and ample funding to deploy AI at scale—such as chip‑maker Nvidia, now valued at over $4 trillion—are poised to reap disproportionate benefits. This concentration of advantage, he argued, could widen the gulf between rich and poor, especially as AI becomes a central element of strategic competition between global powers. He also flagged growing worries about an AI investment bubble, noting recent central‑bank cautions and heightened scrutiny of multibillion‑dollar deals that could expose the sector to correction.

Rather than presenting a concrete policy fix, Fink urged a broader shift of wealth creation into capital markets. He suggested that more individuals should invest in stocks instead of relying solely on home ownership, which has become less affordable due to rising prices, stricter lending, and high ongoing costs. By bringing a larger share of the population into the financial markets, Fink believes people can share in the growth generated by AI, helping to mitigate the sense that prosperity is drifting away from ordinary citizens.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/23/ai-boom-risks-widening-wealth-divide-blackrock-larry-fink

#blackrock #larryfink #ai #wealthgap #financialmarkets

Supercharged inequality: rich investors stifle budget. The current housing crisis isn’t a market failure—it’s the system working exactly as intended for those at the top. While wealthy investors use tax concessions like negative gearing to treat shelter as a high-yield asset, millions of people are being locked out of the basic right to a home. We need a fundamental shift that prioritizes people over portfolios and ends the policies that supercharge inequality.

​#housingjustice #auspol #wealthgap #fairhousing

https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/supercharged-inequality-rich-investors-stifle-023450552.html

I’ve raised this concern here before, because the distortions that already exist among Boomers are only going to get magnified in the generations that inherit their wealth (or don’t).

Those who don’t own their own home won’t be passing it on. So those living in social housing - many of whom are or were single mothers or disabled.

Those who require extensive care towards the end of their lives, may have already sold their homes to pay for it.

The existing #wealthgap will be given steroids.

“Yes, there is intergenerational inequality in property ownership. But one day the boomers will die, and then their children will inherit their wealth, much of it property-based. It’s already begun to happen, and it’s being called “the largest intergenerational transfer of wealth ever…and will amount to something in the region of £4 trillion”

This he rightly acknowledges will create a “gap between people who inherit property wealth from their parents and people who don’t”.

#WealthGap