Inequality is soaring, with the 1% scooping up ever-larger shares of global wealth. These days, the US has a Gini coefficient – the most common international measurement of inequality – on a par with slave-owning Ancient Rome. Maternal mortality rates for American millennials are three times higher than those of their parents’ generation
It’s a mystery how the US belongs to a select group of contries with homongous GDP but lower life expectancy.
Inequality is like some of the worst developing world countries
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/05/progress-by-samuel-miller-mcdonald-review-humanitys-greatest-myth
It’s always acceptable to kill a rich person.
They only got rich by killing and exploiting poor people.
Unless they renounce their wealth and give most of it away, kill them.
Why is the US dollar always worth less than the pound and the euro, if it’s this great functioning economy? I’ve never been able to work that one out.
That’s why people really ought to be taught basic economics before being let out to frolic in the wild.
Because the actual number doesn’t matter, only the change trajectory.
Put it differently: A water melon costs more than a dollar. Still, a water melon doesn’t have a great functioning economy.
Because the actual amount of money is somewhat arbitrary.
Like how if it is 77°F in the US it is the same temperature as it being 25°C in France.
Because 1 apple isn’t equal to 1 banana.