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- How to Make Wealth http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html 70 comments
- How To Make Wealth (2004) http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html 32 comments
- Janet Yellen Is Worried About America’s Wealth Gap — But Has the Fed Been Making It Worse? http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/10/has-the-fed-been-making-the-wealth-gap-worse.html 3 comments politics
- The number of billionaires grew by 13.4% in 2020 - making the pandemic a 'windfall to billionaire wealth' https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/number-of-billionaires-in-world-grew-pandemic-wealth-tax-2021-9 3634 comments worldnews
- Elon Musk posts best annual wealth gain ever, makes $140 billion in 2020 https://nairametrics.com/2021/01/01/elon-musk-posts-best-annual-wealth-gain-ever-makes-140-billion-in-2020/ 284 comments technews
- Taxing Wealth to Make Public College Free Again https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/02/16/taxing-wealth-make-public-college-free-again 45 comments politics
- Why the GOP Tax Cut Will Make Wealth Inequality So Much Worse https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/12/gop-tax-bill-inequalilty/548726/ 65 comments politics
- Krugman on what a difference a generation makes in wealth creation, its taxation and its disclosure in a presidential campaign. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/09/opinion/krugman-mitts-gray-areas.html?_r=4&ref=opinion 5 comments politics
- Mind the Income Gap. Manhattan has the highest wealth disparity in the country. How does that make you feel? http://nymag.com/guides/money/2006/23488/index.html 2 comments reddit.com
- Billionaires make a surprising request to 2020 candidates: a wealth tax https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/6/25/18744218/billionaires-2020-candidates-wealth-tax-open-letter-elizabeth-warren 21 comments politics
- Severe Inequality Is Incompatible With the American Dream Why extreme wealth makes it hard for people to do better than their parents did https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/12/equality-of-opportunity/510227/#article-comments 8 comments economy
- Income and wealth inequality make recessions worse, research reveals http://m.phys.org/news/2016-08-income-wealth-inequality-recessions-worse.html 5 comments economy
- What to do about the rich ("We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both") http://www.philosophersbeard.org/2012/04/what-to-do-about-rich.html 24 comments philosophy
- Saudi wealth fund sells billions in individual stocks for ETFs. How does that make sense? https://www.ft.com/content/6541f041-8194-4c39-bf2c-a5101b82b101 6 comments business
- Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross ‘lied’ about his wealth to make richest Americans list, says Forbes magazine https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/11/08/commerce-secretary-wilbur-ross-lied-about-his-wealth-to-make-rich-list-says-forbes-magazine/?hpid=hp_hp-morning-mix_mm-ross%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.f10d021f618b 13 comments politics
- Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross ‘lied’ about his wealth to make richest Americans list, says Forbes magazine https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/11/08/commerce-secretary-wilbur-ross-lied-about-his-wealth-to-make-rich-list-says-forbes-magazine/ 9 comments politics
- Debt, Debt, Debt: 90% of Americans Experience Income Decline as Wealth Gets Sucked Back Into Top .1% -- Debt Explodes as We Try to Make Ends Meet http://www.alternet.org/economy/152016/debt%2C_debt%2C_debt%3A_90_of_americans_experience_income_decline_as_wealth_gets_sucked_back_into_top_.1_--_debt 7 comments politics
- The Catholic Church in Germany has been hit by revelations of theft, opaque accounting and extravagance. While the grassroots faithful are being forced to make cutbacks, some bishops enjoy the trappings of the church's considerable hidden wealth. http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,700513,00.html 10 comments worldnews
- Visible wealth makes economic inequality worse: when people didn’t know their neighbors’ financial status, they cooperated and interacted much better with each other http://news.yale.edu/2015/09/09/visible-wealth-makes-economic-inequality-worse-experiments-show 83 comments science
- How Much Will Climate Change Drag Down the Economy? Just slightly stunting economic growth can add up to tens or even hundreds of trillions of dollars in lost wealth by the end of the century — making climate solutions look like an absolute bargain #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/07/how-much-will-climate-change-drag-down-the-economy/ 3 comments climate
- People automatically perceive wealthy individuals as highly competent and express more willingness to hire them, based on the assumption that wealthy people “earn” their wealth. This “rich and competent” belief can reduce economic mobility, making it more difficult for the working class to thrive https://www.behaviorist.biz/oh-behave-a-blog/wealth-impressions 139 comments science
- “My primary motivation is not personal wealth, but making a difference. I just want to look back on my life and know that I did something worthwhile that helped people. It’s fulfilling to me.” #MeToo https://twitter.com/rogerkver/status/957998248991522816?ref_src=twcamp%5Eshare%7Ctwsrc%5Em5%7Ctwgr%5Eemail%7Ctwcon%5E7046%7Ctwterm%5E1 6 comments btc
- "Most of the world’s equity wealth belongs to very wealthy people, so corporate tax avoidance only enriches a small group. And the taxes multinationals dodge have to be compensated for by higher taxes on lower-income households, making it harder for these people to save and accumulate wealth." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/08/tax-havens-dodging-theft-multinationals-avoiding-tax 3 comments europes
- Story of how Bismack Biyombo went from hooping shoeless, hunger & and being thrown into a Tanzanian jail, to making to the NBA and now using his wealth to help his homeland of Congo. http://theundefeated.com/features/orlando-magics-biyombo-recalls-youth-in-congo/ 68 comments nba
- Americans' love for individual billionaires affects their views on economic inequality -- and makes them less likely to support wealth taxes on the super-rich, a new study finds. https://news.osu.edu/people-love-the-billionaire-but-hate-the-billionaires-club/ 3758 comments science
- Elon Musk's personal fortune is shifting away from Tesla and toward SpaceX - SpaceX now makes up two-thirds of his wealth, with Tesla accounting for most of the remaining third https://business.financialpost.com/personal-finance/high-net-worth/elon-musks-personal-fortune-is-shifting-away-from-tesla-and-toward-spacex 10 comments space
- The development charity Oxfam has called for action to tackle the growing gap between rich and poor as it launched a new report showing that 42 people hold as much wealth as the 3.7 billion who make up the poorest half of the world’s population. https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2018/jan/22/inequality-gap-widens-as-42-people-hold-same-wealth-as-37bn-poorest 9 comments worldnews
- What is a robot exactly – and how do we make it pay tax? Bill Gates’s idea of taxing robots sounds like common sense but we need more practicable ways of redistributing wealth https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/mar/13/what-is-a-robot-exactly-and-how-do-we-make-it-pay-tax 3 comments technology
- Chinese Tycoon Jack Ma said that they are not foreign companies that robbed US of its wealth, but its own flawed strategy that despite making huge money, the wealth did not reach all people and instead wasted on wars and wall-street bailouts https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/01/jack-ma-america-has-wasted-its-wealth?utm_content=bufferbbecd 27 comments worldnews
- We tend to think that simply giving people money makes them lazy. Yet a wealth of scientific research shows the contrary: free money helps lift people out of poverty. What’s more, eradicating poverty is an investment that more than pays for itself. http://www.techinsider.io/how-free-money-lifts-people-out-of-poverty-2016-4 10 comments science
- Cheap cab ride? You must have missed Uber’s true cost. When tech giants such as Google and Uber hide their wealth from taxation, they make it harder for us to use technology to improve services or for innovative startups like Kutsuplus. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/31/cheap-cab-ride-uber-true-cost-google-wealth-taxation 33 comments technology
- Sanders identifies as a Democratic Socialist, a term many claim makes him unelectable... But the truth is the United States has already tolerated instances of reverse socialism in which wealth ends up being redistributed upwards http://pennspectrum.org/2016/01/26/aim-left/ 7 comments politics
- Norway wealth fund drops €29.4bn amid market rout. The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, which is Norwegian, has posted its biggest loss in four years, just as the government is preparing to make its first ever withdrawals to plug budget deficits http://www.irishexaminer.com/business/norway-wealth-fund-drops-294bn-amid-market-rout-361965.html 38 comments worldnews
- Finally: List of 80 People With as Much Money as 1/2 of Humanity. "It makes me feel uncomfortable that the political influence of these people have served to increase their wealth and weaken regulations, and I suggest we seek meaningful changes on a systemic level." http://realitieswatch.com/finally-list-of-80-people-with-as-much-money-as-12-of-humanity/ 405 comments politics
- Education 'protects' poor women from fattening effects of rising wealth: Obesity levels among women in low- and middle-income countries rise with wealth, as they purchase more energy-dense foods; but a new study suggests that more educated consumers make better food choices that mitigate this effect http://www.sciencenewsline.com/articles/2014030808390007.html 4 comments science
- Wealth Care: "How America's tax system makes the super-rich richer while costing the rest of us." This is a long read, but worth it. The author is a Pulitzer Prize winner. http://www.northcoastjournal.com/news/2011/04/14/wealth-care/ 4 comments politics
- How perception affects our sense of wealth, and taxes. For people making $250,000 a year, or the top 2 percent income in the country, that means probably surrounding themselves with even richer people. And that's why there was a debate over taxes, says http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/12/24/mm-how-perception-affects-our-sense-of-wealth-and-taxes/ 8 comments reddit.com
- Know how many companies make lots of money with "nickel-and-dime" fees? Here's a way to do it back. DIY Wealth Redistribution. http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/12/16/929420/-more-sanitary-than-revolt-:-diy-wealth-redistribution 4 comments politics
- It will take 20 years to recoup the housing wealth lost since 2005. After adjusting for inflation, values will never catch up. People shouldn't look at a home as a way to make money because it won't. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/business/economy/23decline.html?_r=1&hp 21 comments reddit.com
- Millions of citizens who make less than $200,000 annually are taxed to enrich those who make more than them. This is wealth redistribution, a reverse-robin hood scheme. http://www.999ideas.com/blog/?p=158 5 comments politics