#wealthy — Public Fediverse posts

#US #Debt Hits $40 Trillion as #Trump’s Borrowing Binge Continues

Trump’s promises to restore fiscal order & reduce the amount of #US debt burden have been hampered by his spending on his #IranWar, #TaxCuts for #corporations & the #wealthy & #tariffs.

#economy #GlobalStanding #NewWorldOrder

#GiftArticle
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/business/economy/us-debt-40-trillion.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6lA.0d49.AhbsQu4DnwPe&smid=nytcore-ios-share

@wood5y They are also very heavily influenced by #powerful - & #wealthy - #lobby #groups & the #media, & #fossilfuel #money & #power have far too much sway over their #behaviour.

Don’t let #Grifters and those they’ve *bought* tell you that nationalisation is a *communist* threat. Of course they would say that, they have a lot at stake in #StateCapture. And the now more than 40yo #NeoLiberal (neo-classical) economy is predicated on deregulated markets (especially financial markets) and globalisation.

But *everything* in a *Social Democracy* is **Publicly owned** until it is bought or acquired by a private individual or a corporation. Hence, every private enterprise operates on the basis of an assumed social licence. That license can be revoked at any time.

Govt (public wealth) subsidies and bailouts ought to be offset by assets transfers to public ownership, anything else is weatlh transfers to the #Rich and #Wealthy of the #RentierClass exacerbating the #WealthEquity gap in society. How else can this gap be breached if not by #TaxingTheRIch or #Nationalisation of failing enterprises, especially where public infrastructure is concerned.

https://www.deepcutnews.com/p/neoliberalism-has-destroyed-our-social

#AusPol #Economics #PrivateOwnership #PublicOwnership #Deregulation #WealthTransfer #TheGreaterSocialGood

#MissKittyPolitics
#Solar #DataCenters #Decentralized #AI
Don't solve the wrong problem. It's not #AI, it's the fucking rich. It is the implementation not the tool. The #wealthy are the #existential #threat not AI. Somebody help me.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tiriierad73thyvjczaphg6v/post/3mstmowxma22m

Let's see... #BrianHeywood loves #ACAB, wants to know what's in childrens' pants, loves the #Wealthy, and thinks #ClimateChange is BS. Wow...!

"If approved, the initiatives would repeal the capital gains tax for the wealthy, allow workers to opt out of the WA Cares program and repeal large sections of the Climate Commitment Act."

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/jun/07/conservative-hedge-fund-manager-responsible-for-sl/

👨‍🍳 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐇𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐟𝐬

#rich #richpeople #richpeopleamiright #wealthy #chef #chefs #privatechefs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ_IrPfQvfY&list=PLVz16niX2rGe3-uBlgX5ZNiH4PNaa3kwa&index=1&pp=iAQBsAgC

Hyesan students fund own cooking exam

A panorama photo of the North Korean city of Hyesan taken in 2013. (Wikimedia Commons) A technical senior middle school* in Hyesan, Ryanggang province, is drawing parent complaints over a new requirement. Students in its hotel cuisine class had to supply their…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Cooking #education #hyesan #non-taxburdens #Poverty #Ryanggangprovince #students #wealthy
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2745475/hyesan-students-fund-own-cooking-exam/

Hyesan students fund own cooking exam https://www.diningandcooking.com/2745475/hyesan-students-fund-own-cooking-exam/ #Cooking #education #food #hyesan #NonTaxBurdens #Poverty #RyanggangProvince #students #wealthy

So #GOP & #Wealthy started the #WarOnDrugs as a commercial operation. Incarceration for mass profit. Stealing people's lives. Nothing correctional about anything in American prisons. They were #ICE before ICE. I'm sorry but y'all still mostly have a bad case of the good old days that never happened.

So once again, evidence the "conservatives" lying about the impact of their policies (NB: these are #NotConservatives, these are #fascists masquerading as consrvatives)

Killing the most vulnerable around the world to finance #TaxCuts for the #wealthy is NOT conservative.

Trump’s HIV funding cuts having ‘severe and devastating’ impact around the world
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jul/21/trumps-hiv-funding-cuts-having-severe-and-devastating-impact-around-the-world?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#FIFA is set to disburse proceeds from #WorldCup to number of #Russian #football #clubs owned by #sanctioned entities, including Russian #oil, #gas companies, an investigation by #FollowTheMoney published

The disbursement, which were also issued following the 2022 Qatar World Cup, runs the risk of #violating #sanctions given many of the Russian clubs are owned by entities sanctioned by the United States and the European Union

https://kyivindependent.com/fifa-sanctions/

#corruption #HybridWarfare #wealthy #greed

#MISSKITTYRAW
Only people that are #Hypnotized by the #Wealthy believe that #AI replaces anything!!! Did you throw out your hammer when you bought your last wrench? Somebody help me!!! 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jul/11/labour-mps-andy-burnham-overseas-aid-development-spending-levels. #Labour under #Burnham can't restore #overseas #aid to previous levels, preserve #social #spending AND increase #defence spending, all with no extra #publicsector #borrowing, without increasing #taxation - that is simple arithmetic. If they increase #taxes, the taxes should be #progressive, & fall most heavily on the #wealthy & #BigBusiness, NOT the #poor!

A quotation from Thomas More

But what puzzles and disgusts the Utopians even more is the idiotic way some people have of practically worshipping a rich man, not because they owe him money or are otherwise in his power, but simply because he’s rich — although they know perfectly well that he’s far too mean to let a single penny come their way, so long as he’s alive to stop it.
 
[Caeterum multo magis eorum mirantur, ac detestantur insaniam qui diuitibus illis, quibus neque debent quicquam, neque sunt obnoxij, nullo alio respectu, quam quod diuites sunt, honores tantum non diuinos impendunt, idque cum eos tam sordidos atque auaros cognoscunt, ut habeant certo certius ex tanto nummorum cumulo, uiuentibus illis ne unum quidem nummulum unquam ad se uenturum.]

Thomas More (1478-1535) English lawyer, social philosopher, statesman, humanist, Christian martyr
Utopia, Book 2, ch. 6 “Of the Travelling of the Utopians” (1518 ed.) [tr. Turner (1965)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/more-thomas/84877/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasmore #utopia #avarice #celebrity #greed #kowtowing #money #possessiveness #truckling #upperclass #wealth #wealthy #worship #rich #onepercent

I 100% guarantee the #rich #wealthy #millionaires #billionaires are getting the drugs before we plebs.

Shortage of #Chemotherapy #Drugs Brings #Rationing Fears

Doctors are contending with low supplies & unfilled orders of generic chemotherapy infusions that are crucial to the treatment of a long list of #cancers.

#FDT #Trump #tariffs #sanctions #law #healthcare #medicine #cancer #BigC
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/health/chemotherapy-drug-shortage.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

I predict it won't be long, before there is a grid of low-flying surveillance drones hovering over every part of the world which is wealthy enough to have them.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/20/motorway-traffic-drones-driving-distraction-virtual-reality-simulation

#surveillance #masssurveillance #bigbrother #1984 #society #privacy #security #drone #drones #development #developed #wealth #wealthy #rich #poor #poverty #crime #police #government

“The bill leaves out the emissions tied to #wealthy people’s investments,”
#ClimateCrisis
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/18/mega-consumers-food-energy-damage-cost-environment

A quotation from Samuel Johnson

   One cause which is not always observed of the insufficiency of riches is, that they very seldom make their owner rich. To be rich is to have more than is desired, and more than is wanted; to have something which may be spent without reluctance, and scattered without care, with which the sudden demands of desire may be gratified, the casual freaks of fancy indulged, the unexpected opportunities of benevolence improved.
   Avarice is always poor, but poor by her own fault.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1759-09-08), The Idler, No. 73

More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/84440…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #avarice #desire #excess #greed #money #riches #satisfaction #sufficiency #value #wealth #wealthy

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#SocialSecurity shortfall expected to accelerate, with funds at critical low in 2032


The shortfall will be driven in part by a drop in #immigration due to #Trump policies & by Trump’s #TaxCuts for corporations & the #wealthy, trustees say, resulting in “trimmed” [we’re all #SOL] #benefits.

#GiftArticle

https://wapo.st/4oiN5c5

Bite Size Economics No.5

'The rich don't spend enough'

The reason 'trickle-down economics' doesn't work is that while workers spend most of their income (a multiplier effect then passes money from hand to hand maintaining economic activity), the wealthy 'invest' much of their money in assets (mostly property of various sorts).

This 'investment' takes money out an economy, tying it up in speculative asset markets, with no multiplier spreading it around!

#BiteSizeEconomics #wealthy #economics

The implications are clear. #Preparedness against #weather_calamities will degrade right away, putting millions at risk. In the long run, the world will walk blindly into an #apocalypse.

But why? The alarming data may compel the world to switch to #RenewableEnergy sources. But then, how will the ultra #wealthy #OilCompanies milk us for profit without the #CentralizedEnergy sources and distribution infrastructure they control? It's always about money!

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A quotation from Basil the Great

You seem to have great possessions! How else can this be, but that you have preferred your own enjoyment to the consolation of the many? For the more you abound in wealth, the more you lack in love.
 
[ἀλλὰ μὴν φαίνῃ ἔχων κτήματα πολλά. Πόθεν ταῦτα; ἢ δῆλον ὅτι τὴν οἰκείαν ἀπόλαυσιν προτι μοτέραν τῆς τῶν πολλῶν παραμυθίας ποιούμενος. Ὅσον οὖν πλεονάζεις τῷ πλούτῳ, τοσοῦτον ἐλλείπεις τῇ ἀγάπῃ.]

Basil of Caesarea (AD 330-378) Christian bishop, theologian, monasticist, Doctor of the Church [Saint Basil the Great, Ἅγιος Βασίλειος ὁ Μέγας]
Sermon (368 ca.), "To the Rich [Ὁμιλία πρὸς τοὺς πλουτούντας]" [tr. Schroeder (2009)]

More about this quote: wist.info/basil-of-caesarea/70…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #basilthegreat #saintbasil #charity #love #possessions #rich #riches #selfindulgence #selfishness #wealth #wealthy #misanthropy #enjoyment #pleasure

A quotation from Lovecraft

As for the Republicans — how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their yes to history and science, steel their emotions against decent human sympathy, cling to sordid and provincial ideals exalting sheer acquisitiveness and condoning artificial hardship for the non-materially-shrewd, dwell smugly and sentimentally in a distorted dream-cosmos of outmoded phrases and principles and attitudes based on the bygone agricultural-handicraft world, and revel in (consciously or unconsciously ) mendacious assumptions (such as the notion that real liberty is synonymous with the single detail of unrestricted economic license, or that a rational planning of resource-distribution would contravene some vague and mystical “American heritage” — economic oversight, price-fixing, “government in business”, etc. recur often in American colonial history) utterly contrary to fact and without the slightest foundation in human experience? Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.

H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) American fabulist [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
Letter (1936-08) to Catherine L. Moore

More about this quote: wist.info/lovecraft-h-p/12672/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #lovecraft #hplovecraft #acquisitiveness #avarice #business #capitalism #conservative #freedom #history #laissezfaire #liberty #private property #profit #Republican #wealth #wealthy

A quotation from Shaw

When you see a rich man’s wife (or anyone else’s wife) shaking her head over the thriftlessness of the poor because they do not all save, pity the lady’s ignorance; but do not irritate the poor by repeating her nonsense to them.

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish playwright and critic
The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, ch. 2 (1928)

More about this quote: wist.info/shaw-george-bernard/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shaw #georgebernardshaw #disposableincome #money #poor #poverty #savings #thrift #wealthy

@WideEyedCurious What - by #geoengineering? No thanks very much. How about reducing, then eliminating, the extraction & burning of #fossilfuels, & ending the #destruction of #forests & #wetlands? Or is that just too simple & straightforward, & too liable to upset #fossilfuel #companies & their #wealthy #shareholders?