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@junesim63 @NicelyManifest Just a reminder that millionaires are not the problem. Billionaires are the problem. Everyone needs to pay their fair share of taxes, but the bar has been raised and, at least in the US, there are a lot more millionaires in the middle class.Hell, if you own a home and have a retirement investment account and you're not in deep debt, you're probably a millionaire. It doesn't mean you have $1 million in cash in the bank; it just means your net worth is over $1 million.

@ReggieHere @ChrisMayLA6 Oh, sure, but generally they lack the *cachet* and connections.

@h4890 @simon_brooke If anything in the UK we're seeing exactly the opposite - the general impoverishment of over half the population has left the ground very open for left politics - and while some would no doubt characterise that as the politics of envy, others looking at the plight of the poor might regard it as the politics of necessity

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon what if we wrote this on a beach, using gasping birds drenched in fossil oil?

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon i love her sooooo much

How Britain’s housing crisis contributes to its declining healthy life expectancyhttps://theconversation.com/how-britains-housing-crisis-contributes-to-its-declining-healthy-life-expectancy-281605"The Building Research Establishment, an independent research organisation, has estimated that poor housing costs the NHS in England £1.4 billion each year. More than half of this is attributed to cold homes, which increase the risk of respiratory illness, cardiovascular problems and poor mental health."#UKpol #Poverty #Inequality

‘Dr. Jill is a 51-year-old street medicine doctor in Victoria, BC, who joined Instagram to educate the public and foster compassion.’ https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/04/29/Street-Dr-Jill-BC-Favourite-Influencer/#bcpoli #cdnpoli #inequality #homelessness

@persagen Quelle surprise.

@jensorensen A question that somehow nobody asks is who buys the products? With no workers or badly paid ones, we dont need those companies anymore because there is nobody left to buy stuff. How will the share price react on that?

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Probably because they didn't go to college /s

... for those interested, Avi Lewis is married to acclaimed author Naomi KleinStephen (father): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_LewisAvi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avi_LewisNaomi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Klein

ICYMI Two-tier testing means the wealthiest get their diagnosis and treatment first. https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/the-alberta-government-legislates-two-tier-health-care-again/#abpoli #cdnpoli #inequality #healthcare #privatization

@timagal What's so maddening is that int he public sector as you say (now) cross subsidy is regarded as wasteful, with profitable aspects sold off or drained of cash while the loss-making aspects are regarded as in crisis...Virtually every successful business in the history of economics has cross subsidised aspects of it operation if not in perpetuity for long periods - that the public sector, when 'managed like a business' is somehow not allowed to do this, is just hypocrisy or madness