Catch up
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We’re closing in on the last couple of newsletters in my Wealth series, but I know some of you joined our little tea party (not that one!) mid-journey, so I’m giving you a little breather today, and an opportunity to catch up on all the glorious prior detail.
We started this series talking about where money came from, and an overview of why we should be discussing the dangers of excessive wealth in society. Plus a little glimpse into ways that wealth uses ✨magic✨ to suppress those discussions…
✨Begone, rich fu*ks!✨
Once upon a now-and-then, some masochist brings up the subject of a wealth tax. And, boy, is there a pile on! If “wealth tax” is somehow a foreign term to you, I envy your sheltered life. But it’s probably fair to understand it as a way to claw back a bit of the:
Next, we looked at why we use taxes, and what’s wrong with the way we use them. We rolled around in all manner of muckiness about how income and consumption taxes are a bit of a con, then started the work of scrubbing ourselves clean in the big-bubbly-bath of ‘wealth vs. value’…
Earn. Own. Do.
In my previous newsletter, I talked about how taxes were born…And, consequently, where money comes from.
The third part was all about why wealth is so compelling. We took a brief trip back to Judea, and tried to decypher some ancient wisdom to see if it had any relevance to our current concerns…
What about the poor rich people?
Growing up, we went to a local Anglican church, although, not for especially long: For various reasons I was barely old enough for Holy Communion before we became a Church@Christmas family and then a #NoChurch family. I toyed with religion, via friends, right through until my late teens, but my foundational knowledge of the Bible remains the stories-tol…
After that, we got into a 2-parter about how the things that exacerbate inequality require a conscientious effort to avoid. Excessive wealth, without some kind of circuit-breaker, is as inevitable as the aftermath of an apple dropped from the Empire State Building…
The bit between, part 1
One thing that always gets me about living in modern capitalism is the way some people become multi-millionaires by accidentally poking themselves in the eye while trying to pick their nose and, temporarily blinded, stumble over their own shoelaces into a pile of cow shit…
The bit between, part 2
My last newsletter was about how we are pretty good at talking about people having money, and we’re pretty good at talking about a nation being unequal. We have plenty to say about high prices or seemingly-unfair earnings. And we have even more to say about poverty and inequality.
And, if you’ve made it that far, you should also read the latest instalment about how the things we choose to look at can make the things we should understand about the world less clear…
Have you ever noticed
Around the crest of the millennium, I worked as an editor (feel free to laugh heartily, based on my typos and grammar!) for the Department of Statistics (or ‘Stats’ to the cool kids). I worked in the publishing department, where we turned terabytes of charts and data about the whole economy into human-sized brochures, a fledgling online presence, and ot…
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-T