現在已經惡化到極端不公平(extremely unfair)，少數人一開始就已經極端有錢（極端富豪 Extreme Rich），你寶貴的人生還无條件接受他們的遊戲規則陪他們玩？絕望嗎？躺平嗎？會吵的孩子有糖喫。你不行動，一生不會有出息
the world’s first trillionaire by 2027
“Trillions of dollars exist for financing development – but too much public money is captured by private power.”
violence is on the rise
The rules-based world order is in retreat and violence is on the rise, forcing countries to rethink their relationships
Inside Job is a 2010 American documentary film, directed by Charles Ferguson, about the 2008 financial crisis. Ferguson, who began researching in 2008,[3] said the film is about "the systemic corruption of the United States by the financial services industry and the consequences of that systemic corruption",[4] amongst them conflicts of interest...
今年年初，美國南加州（又）發生震驚世界的大火。比較有趣的是，右派相信是因為政策不利、水庫沒水，所以導致大火延燒……
other countries should make market access to foreign multinationals (and their main owners) conditional on their paying a minimum amount of tax ... If billionaires refuse to pay taxes, market access for the firms they own should be denied
You have to give Donald Trump credit for one thing: for all his inconsistency on many issues, he believes deeply in high tariffs. He has been preaching that gospel for at least four decades, convinced that tariffs are the key to America’s future prosperity. Shortly after promising to “tariff and tax foreign countries to enri
target US multinationals and their owners directly. The world needs tariffs not for US exports, but for oligarchs
In 2017, the [Business Roundtable] group threw its support behind the first Trump administration’s $1.5 trillion tax-cut legislation, which overwhelmingly benefited corporations and the wealthy. Last year, it announced that it would spend “eight figures” lobbying to protect and extend the legislation’s business-friendly tax breaks. As for Biden’s 2022 Build Back Better initiative – which proposed modest tax increases on high earners to fund public services like education, health care, and infrastructure – the Business Roundtable voiced clear opposition
Christopher Marquis thinks the US Business Roundtable's April report should serve as a wake-up call to Democratic lawmakers.
delivering real value to workers and the environment would cost money, which would reduce shareholder dividends and executive pay – the real priorities of the Business Roundtable’s members. In fact, the compensation of CEOs who signed the stakeholder-capitalism “commitment” has continued to reflect their success in delivering shareholder value. When the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in 2020, Marriott International almost immediately began furloughing most of its US workers – while paying out more than $160 million in quarterly dividends and seeking a raise for its CEO, a signatory of the 2019 statement
even from a commercial perspective, this approach is fundamentally flawed. A growing body of research shows that failure to account for social and environmental imperatives poses clear, material risks to firm operations and performance ... For example, companies with poor climate-risk management routinely face supply-chain instability, greater exposure to extreme weather events, and higher capital costs. In other words, the Business Roundtable’s opposition to environmentally-focused policies and proposals is not just hypocritical; from their own short-sighted shareholder-capitalist perspective
The new Business Roundtable Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation has received a great deal of support, as well as questions and…
justice requires wealthy countries to compensate the poor for the damage that climate change causes them
has been weakened both by global rules that favour profit shifting and by domestic policies shaped by those who benefit most from the status quo
Climate finance is often framed as a search for new money. Our analysis and the climate finance slider released with this report, shows that the real issue is not scarcity but capture. Extreme wealth and undertaxed multinational profits are plentiful; what is missing is countries’ ability and willingness to tax them. This ability, tax sovereignty, […]
'Scarcity to address the climate crisis comes not from a genuine lack of resources but from elite capture and a lack of tax sovereignty on the part of countries' ~ Franziska Mager
'Scarcity to address the climate crisis comes not from a genuine lack of resources but from elite capture and a lack of tax sovereignty on the part of countries' ~ Franziska Mager #SB62 #ClimateFinance #BonnClimateConference
主計總處時隔30年再次發布國富統計報告，公布台灣家庭財富分配統計結果，民國110年最富裕的20%家庭財富是新台幣5133萬元，財富資產最少的20%家庭，平均每戶僅有77萬元；兩族群差距高達66.9倍，明顯比民國80年差距16.8倍大很多。
後20％家庭佔不到1％財富， 平均欠債卻最高達405萬元
早些年遺贈稅的確採用累進方式，最高稅率達50％，後來馬政府卻大幅調降至10％單一稅率，即使蔡政府將遺贈稅些微提高到20％（中間有分15%級距）
睽違30年，主計總處再次公布家庭財富分配統計，顯示貧富差距擴大，外界關注下一次公布統計是何時，主計總處主計長朱澤民表示，隨著調查技術與大數據發展，接下來會定期發布統計，「我認為4年做一次很恰當」。
the deliberate weakening of social protections has produced greater financial and economic insecurity
Joseph E. Stiglitz considers what 40 years of anti-government, low-tax, deregulatory advocacy have wrought around the world.
people suffering from precarity, which means existing without predictability or security, affecting material or psychological welfare ... lack of job security
In sociology and economics, the precariat (/prɪˈkɛəriət/) is a neologism for a social class formed by people suffering from precarity, which means existing without predictability or security, affecting material or psychological welfare. The term is a portmanteau merging precarious with proletariat.[1] Unlike the proletariat class of...
蒲公英族（英語：precariat；/prɪˈkɛəriət/)，或譯作「流眾」[1]、「不穩定無產者」[2]、「殆危族」、「飄零族」[3][4]等，在社会学和经济学中，是由飽受不稳定之苦的人组成的階級。蒲公英族是不稳定（precarious）与无产阶级（proletariat）的混成词。 [5][6]...
A growing body of research shows that the corporate rate cut has delivered large gains to top earners but done little for everyone else.
Policymakers and the public should understand that the 2017 Trump tax law was skewed to the rich, was expensive and eroded the U.S. revenue base, and failed to deliver promised economic benefits. A 2025 course correction is needed.
