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PostPosted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 6:31 pm    Post subject: Haves & HaveNots Reply with quote

Ip Assignment, Per Capita

"Under IPv4 there are 4,294,967,296 possible IP addresses - each of
which may be assigned to a device or computer on the internet. 4 billion
addresses equates to slightly less that two thirds of an IP address per
person on the planet. As you may imagine, the IP addresses are not
distributed evenly around the world - they are assigned to individual
countries by Regional Internet Registries such as ARIN and RIPE. We take
a look at how that information breaks down per person in each country."


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PostPosted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 6:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Paul Graham describes it as "Let the nerds keep their lunch money, and
you rule the world" principle but here is a longer version:

Why Poor Countries Are Poor

"The economist Mancur Olson proposed a working assumption that
government's motivations are darker still, and from it theorized that
stable dictatorships should be worse for economic growth than democracies,
but better than sheer instability.

Olson supposed that governments are simply bandits, people with the
biggest guns who will turn up and take everything. That's the starting
point of his analysis--a starting point you will have no trouble accepting if
you spend five minutes looking around you in Cameroon.

...

The blockades and crooked police officers comprise a particularly
visible form of corruption, but there are metaphorical roadblocks
throughout the Cameroonian economy. To set up a small business, an
entrepreneur must spend on official fees nearly as much as the average
Cameroonian makes in two years. To buy or sell property costs nearly a
fifth of the property's value. To get the courts to enforce an unpaid
invoice takes nearly two years, costs more than a third of the invoice's
value, and requires 58 separate procedures. These ridiculous regulations
are good news for the bureaucrats who enforce them. Every procedure is
an opportunity to extract a bribe. The slower the standard processes, the
greater the temptation to pay 'speed money'."
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 6:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rather controversial article about Africa: Let Africa Sink

"In Africa, life is cheap. There are so many ways to die in Africa that death
is far more commonplace than in the West. You can die from so many
things--snakebite, insect bite, wild animal attack, disease, starvation, food
poisoning… the list goes on and on. At one time, crocodiles accounted for
more deaths in sub-Saharan Africa than gunfire, for example."
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 3:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nourishment on a Desperate Income

"During one month, I was reduced to only spending $10.71 total on food
(I actually raised more than this through aluminum can returns), a fact that
I recorded studiously in my journal. Yet I wasn’t malnourished, I did not
resort to dumpster diving, and I didn’t actually steal anything, although I had
to ask for a few free things along the way. We’re not talking about a few
days
until the next paycheck, we’re talking about the edge of poverty. How did I
do this?"
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 11:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

MEET THE WORLD

"Icaro Doria is Brazilian, 25 and has been working for the magazine Grande
Reportagem, in Lisbon, Portugal, for the last 3 years. He was the author of
the flags campaign "Meet the World" that has been circulating the earth in
chain letters via e-mail."
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 12:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

JoS: A cry for help (financial problems)

"It's partially my fault and partially my wife's fault.... we both screwed up
over the past few years and now it is coming back to haunt us. I am very
worried about our credit score as well as how I'm going to get out of this
situation."
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 8:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Reddit: Pentagon Missing 2.3 TRILLION Dollars!

"This article about the mind-boggling 2.3 trillion in missing money appeared
five years ago. I haven't heard anything about it since. Who is being held
responsible for this? Do you really think that anything will happen? No.
Government will go on wasting staggering amounts of money. The corrupt
parasites who benefit from this will continue to suck us dry."
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 2:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

silent-nation: Fourteen Characteristics of Fascism

...

"Rampant Cronyism and Corruption – Fascist regimes almost always are
governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to
government positions, and who use governmental power and authority to
protect their friends from accountability."

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 9:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

World Imbalances Shown on Unique Maps

"If the world was made out of rubber, and would stretch according to the certain
parameters..."


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PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2007 1:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tom Evslin: Should billg Stop Bullying?

"The philanthropic work that he and Melinda are doing is incredibly important
and incredibly hard. They are among very few individuals with the resources
to make substantive change in some of the world’s most hopeless places; and
they’re dedicated to doing just that.

Sympathy and good intentions and even scads of money are not enough. An
incredible tough-mindedness is needed to assure that aid isn’t just stolen or
diverted to feel-good projects which make no long term difference.

Those who think corruption needs to get its due need all the bullying billg can
bring to bear to be forced out of the way not to mention those who aren’t
willing to radically upset the stsus quo."
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PostPosted: Tue May 15, 2007 6:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

World's Dirtiest Cities

"Photos of the dirtiest cities of the world. Example of how people do not
protect the surrounding nature."
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PostPosted: Tue May 15, 2007 6:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Trillion Dollar Income Shift, Parts 1 & 2

"The most telling statistic of what it all means comes from the U.S. Department
of Commerce. It states that wages and salaries as of April 2006 constituted
only 45.3% of GDP, a decline from 50.0% in 2001 and 53.6% in 1970."
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PostPosted: Tue May 22, 2007 5:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

St. Petersburg Times: A dream lay dying

"Times columnist and editorial board member Bill Maxwell kept a promise to
himself, to become a professor at a small historically black college, to nurture
needy students the way that mentors had encouraged him as a young man.
His second year started with promise but ended in despair."
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 3:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Guardian: The richer they come ...

"The charges against Berezovsky have their origins in the 90s, when a
small, well-connected group of entrepreneurs made a killing from the
privatisation of Russia's state assets. But what happened to the rest of
them? A survey of the oligarchs, as they have become known, reveals
an intriguing picture. Most of the first wave are now in prison or in exile..."
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 10:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Africans to Bono: 'For God's sake please stop!'

"For the thousands of foreign-educated lawyers, businessmen, and architects
from the Diaspora who are leaving cushy corporate jobs to return home with
their skills and their dynamism to open businesses, it's about creating wealth,
not reducing poverty. Africa is not a victim in need of saving: it's a land of
opportunity."
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 5:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Map of countries with universal health care

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Guardian - Zimbabwe runs out of bread

'The agriculture minister, Rugare Gumbo, has blamed the food shortages on
black farmers who have taken over formerly white-owned land.

"I am painfully aware of the widespread theft of stock, farm produce, irrigation
equipment and the general vandalism of infrastructure by our new farmers,"
he said.'
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 7:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2007

"All of the European Union member countries made it into the top 50 except
Bulgaria (51st) and Poland (56th)."
Croatia was ranked as the 41st!
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 11:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Vanity Fair: The Economic Consequences of Mr. Bush

"The next president will have to deal with yet another crippling legacy of
George W. Bush: the economy. A Nobel laureate, Joseph E. Stiglitz, sees
a generation-long struggle to recoup."
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 2:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

YouTube: "Krale smo, kao i svi ostali"
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This Stock Taps Into the Greatest Transfer of Wealth in History

"Zoom-in on the six Arab countries of the Gulf Co-operation Council alone
and you find that they’re raking-in $1.5 billion dollars from oil exports every
single day!"
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sfgate - Japan's burgeoning class: Working Poor

"The number of Japanese earning less than $19,610 a year surged 40 percent
from 2002 to 2006, the latest data available, the government says. They now
number more than 10 million."
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Surviving in Argentina - Thoughts on Urban Survival

"It's the first long post I made several years ago, 2005. A lot of things
have change since then, but my opinions on the importance of food and
city vs. country have remained and confirmed even more so."
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cluborlov - Social Collapse Best Practices

"By the mid-1990s I started to see Soviet/American Superpowerdom as
a sort of disease that strives for world dominance but in effect eviscerates
its host country, eventually leaving behind an empty shell: an impoverished
population, an economy in ruins, a legacy of social problems, and a tremen-
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 8:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

nyt - $100 Billion the Country Could Use

"The United States Treasury isn’t the only one being shorted. The Tax Justice
Network, a research and advocacy organization, estimates $11.5 trillion in as-
sets from around the world are hidden in offshore havens."
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 12:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

reddit - Haiti 360°....AMAZING! (cnn.com)

"It's done using a 12-lensed video camera. The individual video feeds are
stitched together and processed in order to create the final video. It's pretty
cool but super expensive - about $100,000 per mile traveled."
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 12:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

discover - Does national IQ depend on parasite infections? Er…

"Christopher Eppig, Corey Fincher and Randy Thornhill from the University
of New Mexico have suggested that fighting off parasitic infections during
childhood takes up valuable energy that might otherwise go towards the
development of the brain. More parasites mean less well developed brains
and weaker mental abilities."
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Africa is giving nothing to anyone -- apart from AIDS

"No. It will not do. Even as we see African states refusing to take action to
restore something resembling civilisation in Zimbabwe, the begging bowl for
Ethiopia is being passed around to us, yet again."
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 5:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ibtimes.com - Top Ten Most Drunken Countries (PHOTOS)

"Eastern Europe and the countries that were formerly part of the Soviet
Union have the highest rates of alcohol consumption in the world, according
to a report by the World Health Organization (WHO)."
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 1:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

motherjones.com - Amazon's Scorched-Earth War Against the Rest of Us

"For all its talk of technology and convenience and selection, Amazon basi-
cally stays in business because it can charge slightly lower prices than brick-
and-mortar stores. A level playing field might be good for state coffers and
the schools and police officers they support, but to Amazon that doesn't mat-
ter. It's nothing personal, mind you. Just business."
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 7:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

businessinsider.com - CHARTS: Here's What The Wall Street Protesters
Are So Angry About...


"The "Occupy Wall Street" protests are gaining momentum, having spread
from a small park in New York to marches to other cities across the country."
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 5:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

James Altucher - Who Makes Money on Wall Street?

"You’re smart, talented and yet you want to use those talents to do some
hocus-pocus that you think will put you ahead of the other 5 million people
who are trying to win in the markets: people a lot smarter than you are, a
lot hungrier, have a lot more computers, have a lot more inside information,
have teams of analysts, etc. I cannot believe how stupid you are."
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answersanswers.com - Saving the world is easy

"Adam Smith shows us how. But instead we ignore one of the first rules
of economics.

This rule provides: Full employment; Riches for everybody; Near-perfect
governments; No crime; World peace; Love and happiness; No tyrants;
A beautiful environment; "Enough theory, show me it working in the
real world!"
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 6:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

nytimes.com - Why Nations Fail

"Co-authored by the M.I.T. economist Daron Acemoglu and the Harvard
political scientist James A. Robinson, “Why Nations Fail” argues that the
key differentiator between countries is “institutions.” Nations thrive when
they develop “inclusive” political and economic institutions, and they fail
when those institutions become “extractive” and concentrate power and
opportunity in the hands of only a few."
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PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2012 3:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

businessinsider.com - More People Have Mobile Phones Than Electricity
Or Drinking Water


"How big is mobile? Really big. This slide from analyst Chetan Sharma shows
that mobile is the most pervasive technology ever invented. As you can see,
mobile has deeper penetration than electricity and safe drinking water."
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 8:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

cepr - Technology Didn't Kill Middle Class Jobs, Public Policy Did

"My colleagues Larry Mishel, John Schmitt, and Heidi Sheirholz, just pub-
lished a paper showing that the pattern of job growth in the data doesn’t
fit this picture at all. This paper touches on a wide variety of issues re-
lated to technology and wage inequality, but first and foremost it shows
that the story of the hollowing out of the middle does not fit the data for
the 2000s at all."
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reddit.com - Pope attacks "tyranny" of markets, urges renewal in key document

"Pope Francis called for renewal of the Roman Catholic Church and attacked
unfettered capitalism as "a new tyranny", urging global leaders to fight
poverty and growing inequality in the first major work he has authored alone
as pontiff."
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The Context Of Things - Poland, a country with basically 200 years
of tragic history, is now Europe’s most vibrant economy


"They actually just saw their fastest expansion since 2012, and The
Economist suggests that while Britain and Poland are both growing right
now, the stability factor for longer-term growth is actually stronger … in
Poland. Think about that for a second, whatever your opinion of the
British Empire is: we’ve reached a moment in world economic evolution
where Poland is a stronger economy long-term than the UK. Crazy, no?"
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theAtlantic - It Is Expensive to Be Poor

"What I discovered is that in many ways, these jobs are a trap: They pay
so little that you cannot accumulate even a couple of hundred dollars to
help you make the transition to a better-paying job. They often give you
no control over your work schedule, making it impossible to arrange for
child care or take a second job. And in many of these jobs, even young
women soon begin to experience the physical deterioration—especially
knee and back problems—that can bring a painful end to their work life."
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economist.com - Poor behaviour

"As the report shows, the poor are more likely than other people to make
bad economic decisions. This is not because they are irrational or foolish
but because so much is stacked against them. They are more likely to lack
the basic information needed to make good choices, such as which fertiliser
to use or when to apply it. They are more likely to live in societies which
hold mistaken or harmful views, such as that girls should not go to school."
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r - Davos 2015: overriding pessimism over growing inequality

"As inequality soars, the nervous super rich are already planning their
escapes | Hedge fund managers are preparing getaways by buying
airstrips and farms in remote areas, former hedge fund partner tells
Davos during session on inequality"
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r - Paul Ryan's First Tax Legislation Adds Nearly $100 Billion To Deficit

"When your workers make shit wages and work 16 hours a day, don't
expect them to buy your products. On a sidenote, this is why it was so
hard for the US to rebound from both 1929 and 2007; government
intervention not aimed at maintaining aggregate demand actually
prevents industrialists from investing (no matter what they say). This
creates a pretty intense rigidity in any country's industrial base."
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medium.com - Income inequality is actually about housing

"A 26-year-old MIT graduate is turning heads over his theory that income
inequality is actually about housing (in 1 graph)

Software, robots, and other modern investments all depreciate in price as
fast as the iPod. Technology doesn’t hold value like it used to, so it’s mis-
leading to believe that investments in capital now will give rich folks a long-
term advantage."
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r - Revealed: the 30-year economic betrayal dragging down Generation Y's income

"Exclusive new data shows how debt, unemployment and property prices
have combined to stop millennials taking their share of western wealth."
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r - Martin's already lost almost everything - he voted leave to spread the pain

"He survives by begging for small favours: cleaning someone's garage in
return for food, say. Friends give him meals or bits of cash. "It's funny,"
he laughs, quietly. "They're all foreign. Polish. Italians. No one English has
helped me."
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anonews - Ultra-rich man's letter: To My Fellow Filthy Rich
Americans: The Pitchforks Are Coming


"So forget all that rhetoric about how America is great because of people
like you and me and Steve Jobs. You know the truth even if you won't
admit it: If any of us had been born in Somalia or the Congo, all we'd be
is some guy standing barefoot next to a dirt road selling fruit."
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nybooks.com - Panama: The Hidden Trillions

"Previously, we thought that the offshore world was a shadowy, but minor,
part of our economic system. What we learned from the Panama Papers is
that it is the economic system.

The economic system is, basically, that the rich and the powerful exited long
ago from the messy business of paying tax"
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foreignpolicy.com - Abandonment has consequences

Bill Browder is the CEO of Hermitage Capital Management and the head of the
Global Campaign for Justice for Sergei Magnitsky.

"With no real laws or institutions, 22 Russian oligarchs stole 40 percent of the
country's wealth from the state. The other 150 million Russians were left in
destitution and poverty, and the average life expectancy for men dropped from
65 to 57 years. Professors had to earn a living as taxi drivers; nurses became
prostitutes. The entire fabric of Russian society broke down."


"The injustice of it all was infuriating for average Russians, and they longed
for a strongman to restore order. In 1999, they found one: Vladimir Putin.
Rather than restoring order, however, Putin replaced the 22 oligarchs with
himself alone at the top. From my own research, I estimate that in his 18
years in power he has stolen $200 billion from the Russian people."
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r - There's a Class War Going On and the Poor Are Getting Their Butts Kickeds

"They said the economy isn't a zero sum game. Data actually shows 1% of
the population captured 95% of all income gain."
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https://www2.gwu.edu/%7Eumpleby/mgt216/Mgt%20216%20Payne%20on%203%20Classes.ppt
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https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/5s3ml6/all_of_these_blue_countries_combined_had_the_same/

All of these blue countries combined had the same number of homicides as Brazil last year
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r - Panama Papers law firm bosses arrested and denied bail

"After two days of questioning, Ramon Fonseca Mora and Jurgen Mossack
were detained by prosecutors in Panama on 9 February."
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Is It Better to Be Poor in Bangladesh or the Mississippi Delta?

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/03/angus-deaton-qa/518880/
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r - Joseph Stiglitz: Inequality is now killing middle America

"Labor income is lower than before. Capital owners get bailed out. Suicides,
drugs and alcoholism are rising. Life expectancy is going down for white
Americans. I was Chief Economist of the World Bank and it reminds me of
Russia in the 90s."
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https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/jun/14/tax-evaders-exposed-why-super-rich-are-even-richer-than-we-thought

Tax evaders exposed: why the super-rich are even richer than we thought

At the time of the leak, HSBC Switzerland was a major actor in the offshore wealth management industry. It managed US$118.4bn ? about 4% of all the foreign wealth managed by Swiss banks. This is a unique source of information through which to study tax evasion, because the leak can be seen as a random event, and it comes from a large (and, the available evidence suggests, representative) offshore bank
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currentaffairs.org - The Politics of Tragedies

"The Grenfell Tower fire was not the result of a criminal plot to burn the poor,
nor was it a freak accident. It was the logical end result of a process of deci-
sion-making driven by a particular philosophy of governance and a particular
set of economic laws. If there is no money to be made in housing the destitute
in safe buildings, and the prevailing ethos is that profit should be allowed to
determine the social good, then destitute people will be housed in unsafe
buildings."
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https://np.reddit.com/r/PoliticalHumor/comments/769nez/derp_alert/docfwt0/

The problem with trickle down economics is easy to illustrate.

from thre: Banned TED Talk: Nick Hanauer Rich people don't create jobs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKCvf8E7V1g&feature=youtu.be
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https://rantt.com/the-paradise-papers-how-ridiculously-easy-it-is-for-the-rich-to-avoid-taxes-15b082cffb68

While you and I might think that paying taxes is the price of living in a wonderful country, the 1% thinks differently. To them, dodging taxes is essential to wealth preservation. Taxation is tyranny.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/QuotesPorn/comments/1xs5cd/the_stock_market_is_a_device_for_transferring/

"The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient." -- Warren Buffett
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https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/8b8a1e/redditor_explains_why_back_in_the_day_people/

Redditor explains why "back in the day" people could afford so much on a single income, and why the current system is the way it is
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https://evonomics.com/nobel-prize-economist-says-american-inequality-didnt-just-happen-it-was-created/

Nobel Laureate Economist Says American Inequality Didn't Just Happen. It Was Created.
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thestranger.com - The Way Harley-Davidson Fucked Over Its Workers Shows Why the Average Trump Voter Is a Write-Off

"What this means is that the top Western political systems in the world have in
their futures a system that has on one side anti-fascists and the other fascists.
A working-class white man or woman who continues to support a leader whose
entire goal is to weaken and break the working classes as a whole must have
accepted a working-class nativism as his or her final political solution. But why?"
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https://eand.co/how-america-overdosed-on-capitalism-f04a510552d8
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https://conferences.morressier.com/delay-gratification-for-higher-income/
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Brazil Is About To Show The World How A Modern Democracy Collapses

Far-right president Jair Bolsonaro is a threat to Brazilian democracy -- and a model for authoritarianism that leaders around the world will follow
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r - Why was/is Germany so powerful
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https://www.reddit.com/r/economy/comments/as0waz/guide_to_the_great_regression/

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https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/04/04/republicans-have-put-our-country-path-warp-speed-decline-and-they-want-you-think

Republicans Have Put Our Country on a Path of Warp-Speed Decline - And They Want You to Think It's Worth Cheering For

As long as the GOP can fool some of the people all of the time, they don't give a rat's ass about the rest of us
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r - Top Countries by GDP Per Capita Over The Past 200 Years (1800-2016

"Argentina also had a top 10 GDP in the world for much of the early to mid
20th century until the 70s. corruption, coups, and stagflation fucked them
good. My family left were well off there, but left for the US in the late 60s
when things started getting bad."
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