Imagine:
The bottom half of the world’s population has increased its wealth to 30 per cent from two per cent — a 15-fold increase.
The wealth share of the billionaire class has fallen from six per cent to 0.05 per cent
Instead of living in a culture where status depends on endless consumption, people are content with enough.
The idea sounds like science fiction.
But it is a very serious proposalput forward by French economist
Thomas Piketty and his colleague…
The Climate and Capitalism Can Be Fixed, Say These Brilliant Economists
Thomas Piketty and colleagues lay out a road map to reversing current dire trends.
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/06/29/Climate-Capitalism-Can-Be-Fixed-Say-Economists
"Unrealistisch ist vielmehr die Vorstellung, wir könnten einfach so weitermachen wie bisher."
https://www.fr.de/kultur/gesellschaft/vermoegenssteuer-fuer-milliardaere-soll-weltweiten-klimafonds-finanziere…
How anyone could possibly not foresee the aims and values of #BankerDaddy and #OilKaren is precisely the reason I gave up on voting. Given the spouse of the NDP leader calls Piketty a fringe kook leaves me then with who?
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/07/23/Mark-Carney-Red-Tory/
Im Gespräch mit dem Starkökonomen Thomas Piketty geht Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer der Frage nach, was sich ändern muss, um Demokratie und Klima zu schützen.
#Wirtschaft #economy #Reichtum #Armut #Umverteilung @… @…