Cost $17.74. Price to you $712 -- for a Covid drug that taxpayers helped develop. American's are being fleeced by their healthcare. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Millions are at risk of starving to death — and just .36% of the world's top billionaires' net worth could help fix it, U.N. official says cbsn.ws/3vRMS4L

Ugh, when you see these signs it means “we don’t pay enough for people to want to work here.”

late stage capitalism showing its true colors

The Great Resignation -- but this is the fascinating story of the post-Black Death labor markets in England.

PRESS RELEASE: 10 richest men double their fortunes in pandemic while incomes of 99 percent of humanity fall. New billionaire minted every 26 hours, as inequality contributes to the death of 1 person every 4 seconds. oxf.am/32RQSIf #Inequality #DavosAgenda World Economic Forum

Banking secrecy is an issue of global public interest that facilitates corruption and has a profound impact on the world’s poorest. This #CreditSuisse leak exposes wealthy people involved in torture, trafficking, money laundering, and more. theguardian.com/news/2022/feb/…

Something for the morbidly wealthy. America's most expensive house is on the market for $295,000,000. architecturaldigest.com/story/the-one-…

🤔 there must be a better model than this...

Confronting war, rethinking sanctions Current sanctions only affect a few hundred people, with little control and multiple loopholes, whereas tens of thousands of Russian fortunes invested in Western circuits should be systematically targeted lemonde.fr/blog/piketty/2…

Most people in the world now live under an autocratic regime - over the last 10 years this has risen from 49% to 70%. Democracy is good for your health. axios.com/democracy-auto…

"If you look at opinion polls about a billionaire tax in the U.S. — among Democratic and also Republican voters — you have huge approval. So is the political system able to respond to this, or is it rigged?" nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Inflation is gripping the world for the first time since the 1970s. nytimes.com/2022/04/12/bus…

Do we need billionaires for innovation and growth? Thomas Piketty is really sharp in this interview nytimes.com/2022/06/07/pod… /1

Revisting this for tonight's viewing. I highly recommend it. Capital in the Twenty-First Century IMDb: : Capital in the Twenty-First Century imdb.com/title/tt572305…

Redistributing wealth to save the planet Do the governments of rich countries know how to count, or are they putting the interests of a small class ahead of those of the planet and the population ? lemonde.fr/blog/piketty/2…

The top 0.00001 percent’s share of total wealth today is almost 10 times what it was four decades ago. nytimes.com/2022/12/19/opi…

Runaway inequality is here... only a shock to the top can reverse it. Call for new taxes on super-rich after 1% pocket two-thirds of all new wealth. $26tn of new wealth created since start of pandemic went to richest theguardian.com/inequality/202…

united states is # 1

Democracy vs oligarchy, the fight of the century Trump's return to the White House must not lead to despair: democratic forces remain strong in the US as well as in Europe, India or Brasil. They will prevail! lemonde.fr/blog/piketty/2…