Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems | Economics | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/15/neoliberalism-ideology-problem-george-monbiot

Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump – neoliberalism has played its part in them all. Why has the left failed to come up with an alternative?

Taxing The Rich: The Evolution Of America’s Marginal Income Tax Rate [Infographic]
https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2021/04/26/taxing-the-rich-the-evolution-of-americas-marginal-income-tax-rate-infographic/?sh=ab2ce055fdcc

+ aktuálně v Británii:

(...) Britská vláda vyvolala zmatek na finančních trzích poté, co ministr financí Kwasi Kwarteng 23. září oznámil plán snížení daní výhodné především pro bohaté (...)

Rich still gain 40 times more than poor from Budget, even after Kwasi Kwarteng U-turn | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/kwarteng-truss-budget-tax-uturn-b2191602.html

Miliardář a šéf společnosti Meta Platforms Mark Zuckerberg prožil svůj nejlepší den v životě, alespoň co se jeho bohatství týče. Za den zbohatl o 11 miliard dolarů

Zdroj: https://www.idnes.cz/ekonomika/zahranicni/mark-zuckerberg-meta-facebook-akcie.A220429_110532_eko-zahranicni_rie

Pluralistic: 13 Apr 2022 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/13/taxes-are-for-the-little-people/#leona-helmsley-2022

But the real winners are tech billionaires, those rapacious, mediocre monopolists who have homogenized the internet into five giant websites filled with screenshots of text from the other four. Their "charitable contributions" of stock (which can simply be donations to their own family foundations) let them deduct the full value of the stock without any capital gains tax.

The top 400 American earners each make at least $110m/year. That's 2,750 times the average American annual wage. The richest 11 US earners make more than $1b/year. A typical American would have to work for 25,000 years to make that much.

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by: Cory Doctorow

The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow review – inequality is not the price of civilisation | History books | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/23/the-dawn-of-everything-by-david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-review-inequality-is-not-the-price-of-civilisation

An archaeologist and an anthropologist dismantle received wisdom about the way early societies operated

(....) All of these books share a common assumption: as societies become larger, more complex, wealthy and “civilised”, they inevitably become less equal. Early humans, it is said, lived like the foragers of the Kalahari, in small, mobile bands that were casually egalitarian and democratic. But this primitive idyll or Hobbesian hell (views differ) disappeared with settlement and farming, which required the management of labour and land. The emergence of early cities, and ultimately states, demanded even steeper hierarchies, and with them the whole civilisational package – leaders, administrators, the division of labour and social classes. The lesson, then, is clear: human equality and freedom have to be traded for progress.

Graeber and Wengrow see the origins of this “stagist” narrative in Enlightenment thought, and show that it has been so persistently appealing because it can be used by radicals as well as liberals. For early liberals such as Adam Smith, it was a positive story that could be deployed to justify the rise in inequality brought by commerce and the structure of the modern state. But a variation on the story, put forward by philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, proved just as useful to the left: in the “state of nature” man was originally free, but with the coming of agriculture, property and so on, he ended up in chains. (...)

Světoví multimiliardáři si loni polepšili. Jmění pěti set nejbohatších lidí na planetě se v roce 2021 dohromady zvýšilo o bilion dolarů.

World's Richest Added $1 Trillion in Year Dominated by Musk, Bezos, Hwang - Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-31/the-year-of-the-super-billionaire-marked-by-1-trillion-in-gains