Wealth has risen much faster than income since 1980. Global wealth-income ratios have risen dramatically from about 390% of world net domestic product in 1980 to over 625% in 2025. This surge reflects both higher savings and strong capital gains, especially in housing and equity markets
First global database of wealth accumulation covering 1800–2025 now available The source for global inequality data. Open access, high quality wealth and income inequality data developed by an international academic consortium.
average returns to capital declined moderately, from 7.5% to 5.6%, yet remained well above income growth rates
Private wealth is at record highs in all advanced regions. Public wealth, by contrast, has declined to turn negative in North America, fall near zero in Europe
Net private wealth has skyrocketed since 1980 - this is one of the main findings of a new @wid.world study overturning the Kaldor’s facts.More findings in thread 🧵🔗Study https://wid.world/news-article/first-global-database-of-wealth-accumulation-covering-1800-2025-now-available/[contains quote post or other embedded content]
Income from capital is much more concentrated than income from labor
Why is capital so concentrated and why so few have it?
剛剛看完Netflix 的《熱帶啟示錄》紀錄片，描寫巴西這近十多年來，巴西福音教派興起，且積極介入政治，與左派魯拉總統之間的極端化對抗過程，凸顯民主的脆弱。2022年的總統大選，敗選的現任福音派總統的支持者，衝進國會，要求軍方出動，推翻贏得勝選的魯拉，看得促觸目驚心。原來工人領袖魯拉，兩度擔任總統，中間被控入獄，是與福音教派有如此大的對抗，我從這部紀錄片才得知。...
勞動報酬變動趨勢分析
福利愈多貧富差距卻愈大，顯然還潛藏著另外一種形式的分配失序……從未水漲船高
今年(2023)的十月底，一則報導再度引起社會對所得分配的高度關注；...
勞工分配到的比例不但沒有顯著提升，在疫情期間還明顯縮水……台灣企業（和地主及股東）在疫情期間實在太賺錢了
2022年的台灣人均GDP，是20年來首次逆轉、超越韓國。如此的亮眼表現，卻和不少台灣人的「體感」存在落差；平均薪資的增長幅度，也難以跟上GDP的成長，為什麼？台灣的「疫情紅利」與經濟成長模式，還藏著哪些隱憂？
Fundamentalism is a tendency among certain groups and individuals that are characterized by the application of a strict literal interpretation to scriptures, dogmas, or ideologies, along with a strong belief in the importance of distinguishing one's ingroup and outgroup,[1][2][3][4] which leads to an emphasis on some conception of "purity", and a...
錢最重要，有錢就可以爲所欲爲，財富是一切
Falwell said: "To stand against Israel is to stand against God
Christian Zionism is a political and religious ideology that, in a Christian context, espouses the return of the Jewish people to the Holy Land.[1] Likewise, it holds that the founding of the State of Israel in 1948 was in accordance with biblical prophecies transmitted through the Old Testament: that the re-establishment of Jewish sovereignty in...
corporate cultures may encourage or accept deviant behaviors that differ from what is normal or accepted in the broader society ... compare the cultures of: mafias, cults, gangs and deviant corporations, each of which was assumed to be a type of deviant organization ... contain toxic leadership
In criminology, corporate crime refers to crimes committed by either a corporation (i.e. a legal person having a separate legal personality from the natural persons that manage its activities), or by individuals acting on behalf of a corporation or other business entity (for example see vicarious liability). Corporate crimes can be seen as...
a universal set of goals toward which all Americans, regardless of background and position, strive, chief among these is monetary success
Deviant organizations, engaging in organi-cultural deviance, were found to leverage their reputation through publicity to attract members
There is evidence that the private sector has as much responsibility for generating corruption as the public sector. Particular situations such as state capture can be very damaging for the economy
opponents of the minimum wealth tax totally lack historical perspective ... It is unrealistic to imagine that the working class and the middle class will calmly accept additional taxes or cuts to public spending. So long as the wealthiest individuals pay taxes that are trivial relative to their net worth, no one will accept the slightest sacrifice. Just as in the decades that came before 1789
If one builds a fortune while relying on the country’s infrastructure, education, and health systems, there is no reason that one should so readily escape the collective obligations that fund these systems
By opposing the 2% minimum wealth tax on billionaires, after the measure was adopted by France's Assemblée nationale (lower house of Parliament), the upper house, the Sénat, has shown …
Wealth is collective: It depends on the involvement of thousands of employees, not a handful of individual geniuses
According to Challenges magazine, which is hardly a bastion of left-wing thought, France’s 500 highest fortunes rose from €200 billion to €1.2 trillion between 2010 and 2025 – a 500% increase. With a 2% annual wealth tax, it would take a century to make them go back to their 2010 level. That’s assuming they receive no income in the meantime, which would make little sense, given that these fortunes have grown by 7% to 8% per year over the past 15 years
Bloc National (1919-1924) – one of the most right-wing legislatures in the French Republic’s history – that would raise the tax rate to 60% in 1920, and then to 75% in 1923
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这就是世界运作的机制。 我们这个世界，千变万化、诸法无常，好像没有一样东西是永恒的。仔细一看，不是，这个世界其…
正如之前说过的，德和道息息相关。道是变化的规律，德便是人类活了很长时间、经历了许多历史教训以后才发展出来的、合…
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