The Super-Rich And Us – Part 2 (2015)
Jacques Peretti investigates how the super-rich are transforming Britain. In the final part, he looks at how inequality was pinpointed as a business opportunity. The post The Super-Rich And Us – Part 2...
View ArticlePoor Us: An Animated History (2012)
If we want to make poverty history, we need to understand the history of poverty. A funny and sinister animated odyssey through time. You fall asleep and dream, traveling across centuries and...
View ArticleThe Super-Rich And Us – Part 1 (2015)
BBC documentry in which Jacques Peretti investigates how the super-rich are transforming Britain. Britain has more billionaires per head than any other country on earth, yet we’re also the most unequal...
View ArticleEnough Is Enough (2014)
Enough Is Enough lays out a visionary but realistic alternative to the perpetual pursuit of economic growth-an economy where the goal is enough, not more. “Based on the best-selling book by Rob Dietz...
View ArticleTED Talks: Thomas Piketty – New Thoughts On Capital In The Twenty-First Century
French economist Thomas Piketty caused a sensation in early 2014 with his book on a simple, brutal formula explaining economic inequality: r is greater than g (meaning that return on capital is...
View ArticleStephen Hawking Warns About The Greatest Threat To Humanity
Source: www.theantimedia.org | Original Post Date: October 13, 2015 – Stephen Hawking has been outspoken in recent years about the catastrophic dangers humanity faces in the 21st century. He said we...
View ArticleThe 85 richest people in the world now control as much wealth as the poorest...
October 2015 – March 2015 – The post The 85 richest people in the world now control as much wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion. The question is, what are they going to do with all that money? ॐ appeared...
View ArticleMeet The 80 Billionaires Who Own As Much As Half Of Humanity
Source: www.usuncut.com | Original Post Date: October 30, 2015 – Much is currently being made over widening income disparity and wealth inequality as the middle-class continues to shrink. But with all...
View ArticleHow Rich People Get Rich (According To Rich People) Vs. How Rich People Get...
The post How Rich People Get Rich (According To Rich People) Vs. How Rich People Get Rich (For Real) appeared first on ॐ Collectively Conscious ॐ.
View ArticleThere are many who believe that instead of taxing labor/income, we should tax...
November 2015 – The post There are many who believe that instead of taxing labor/income, we should tax wealth. How do you feel about this notion? ॐ appeared first on ॐ Collectively Conscious ॐ.
View ArticleWealth Inequality In America (VIDEO)
Infographics on the distribution of wealth in America, highlighting both the inequality and the difference between our perception of inequality and the actual numbers. The reality is often not what we...
View ArticleDo you think there should be a redistribution of wealth in your country? Why...
November 2015 – The post Do you think there should be a redistribution of wealth in your country? Why or why not? If so, how do you think it could or should be done? ॐ appeared first on ॐ Collectively...
View Article400 people in the United States now control as much wealth as the poorest 150...
December 2015 – April 2015 – October 2014 – The post 400 people in the United States now control as much wealth as the poorest 150 million. The question is, what are they going to do with all that...
View ArticleThere are some who think that there should be a “No Billionaires” tax which...
December 2015 – The post There are some who think that there should be a “No Billionaires” tax which would automatically redistribute a person’s wealth into public programs every time it surpasses the...
View ArticleRussell Brand – Is It Your Fault You’re Poor? (VIDEO)
Reaction to a Fox News segment on poverty in the US and UK, and the common argument that welfare displaces work. The post Russell Brand – Is It Your Fault You’re Poor? (VIDEO) appeared first on ॐ...
View ArticleHow do you feel about the concept of making traffic fines proportional to...
December 2015 – The post How do you feel about the concept of making traffic fines proportional to one’s income so that poor people pay less and rich people pay more? Do you think this would be a good...
View ArticleSustainable Human – End In Equality (VIDEO)
“End In Equality” makes the moral case to those in power to do what is within their power to do – end global hunger and poverty. What other problems could we solve if we simply worked together? The...
View ArticleReport: Richest 62 Billionaires As Wealthy As Half The World’s Population...
Source: www.theguardian.com | Original Post Date: January 17, 2016 – Charity says only higher wages, crackdown on tax dodging and higher investment in public services can stop divide widening. The vast...
View ArticleHere Are The Real Terrorists We Should Be Worrying About
Source: www.commondreams.org | Original Post Date: January 11, 2016 – They consist of 16,000 individuals, about the size of a crowd at a professional basketball game. The inequality horror they’ve...
View ArticleThis Billionaire Thinks You Should Be Paid More (VIDEO)
We asked billionaire Nick Hanauer about being rich, but he’d rather talk about increasing the minimum wage. The post This Billionaire Thinks You Should Be Paid More (VIDEO) appeared first on ॐ...
View ArticleRichest 62 People Now As Wealthy As Half Of World’s Population. Tell Me Why...
The post Richest 62 People Now As Wealthy As Half Of World’s Population. Tell Me Why We Can’t Raise Minimum Wage Again? appeared first on ॐ Collectively Conscious ॐ.
View ArticleTED Talks: Chrystia Freeland – The Rise Of The New Global Super-Rich
Technology is advancing in leaps and bounds — and so is economic inequality, says writer Chrystia Freeland. In an impassioned talk, she charts the rise of a new class of plutocrats (those who are...
View Article62 People Have More Wealth Than Half The World, Top 1% Have More Than All Of Us
Source: www.theantimedia.org | Original Post Date: January 18, 2016 – Just 62 individuals now hold the same amount of wealth as 3.6 billion people, the bottom half of the entire planet — a shocking...
View ArticleTED Talks: Nick Hanauer – Beware, Fellow Plutocrats, The Pitchforks Are Coming
Nick Hanauer is a rich guy, an unrepentant capitalist — and he has something to say to his fellow plutocrats: Wake up! Growing inequality is about to push our societies into conditions resembling...
View ArticleIn order to solve the problem of economic inequality in the United States, we...
March 2016 – July 2015 – January 2015 – October 2014 – The post In order to solve the problem of economic inequality in the United States, we need to ______. appeared first on ॐ Collectively Conscious ॐ.
View ArticleThe Panama Papers: The Biggest Leak In History Reveals Corruption By...
Source: www.trueactivist.com | Original Post Date: April 5, 2016 – The Panama Papers, the biggest leak in history, reveal the secrets of billionaires and their offshore accounts. In what’s being called...
View ArticleWhy The Panama Papers Could Catapult Bernie Sanders To The White House
Source: www.usuncut.com | Original Post Date: April 5, 2016 – The Panama Papers may be the defining story of the 2016 Democratic Primary. And Bernie Sanders is on the right side of history. The 11.5...
View ArticleStuff They Don’t Want You To Know – What Are The Panama Papers? (VIDEO)
When a massive leak of internal documents from a Panama-based law firm revealed a web of offshore tax-dodging outfits across the planet, millions of people began to wonder how much – or how little –...
View ArticleDo you think wealth should be redistributed? Why or why not? If so, from who...
May 2016 – August 2015 – The post Do you think wealth should be redistributed? Why or why not? If so, from who to who? ॐ appeared first on ॐ Collectively Conscious ॐ.
View ArticleTED Talks: Richard Wilkinson – How Economic Inequality Harms Societies
We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too...
View ArticleIn your own words, what is class warfare? ॐ
May 2016 – The post In your own words, what is class warfare? ॐ appeared first on ॐ Collectively Conscious ॐ.
View ArticleInequality: Why Are The Rich Getting Richer? (VIDEO)
A video from Positive Money UK explaining how the design of the monetary system causes widening inequality. 1. The current money system distributes money from the bottom 90% to the top 10% Because 97%...
View ArticleIn order to solve the problem of economic inequality throughout the world, we...
June 2016 – August 2015 – February 2015 – April 2014 – The post In order to solve the problem of economic inequality throughout the world, we need to _______. appeared first on ॐ Collectively Conscious...
View ArticleThe War On The Poor And Working Families In Less Than 3 Minutes (VIDEO)
Robert Reich connects the dots to show how a range of positions, on issues ranging from the minimum wage to unemployment insurance to food stamps, work together to keep poor and working families in...
View ArticleTED Talks: Dan Ariely – How Equal Do We Want The World To Be? You’d Be Surprised
The news of society’s growing inequality makes all of us uneasy. But why? Dan Ariely reveals some new, surprising research on what we think is fair, as far as how wealth is distributed over societies…...
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