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Sometimes a simple message tells you a lot.... the concentration of wealth in the UK, in one simple graphic.

#inequality #land #wealth
Graphic from Equality Trust. Shows hand grabbing & distorting a contour map of the UK, with the slogan: <1% of the UK's population owns 70% of the land
#inequality #wealth #land

If only the ultra rich were able to manipulate business and society this would’t happen… Hold on?

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/18/more-than-one-in-three-uk-children-poverty-deprivation-record-high

#UkPolitics #Inequality #Poverty
#poverty #inequality #ukpolitics

Its sometimes been said that rather than being a rich country, the UK is a poor country with a rich elite living in enclaves... now you might think that's a politically-driven exaggeration, but looking at new figures on the incidence of poverty you'd be hard pressed to deny there is some truth to that depiction....

#poverty #inequality

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/18/more-than-one-in-three-uk-children-poverty-deprivation-record-high
#poverty #inequality

Wealth concentration

Under our current way of doing things, extreme wealth can be seen as a dark hole - loose analogy - dragging and destroying everything within it’s reach.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/nov/18/be-brave-and-impose-minimum-tax-on-worlds-billionaires-urges-spanish-minister

#Taxation #Inequality #ExtremeWealth
#inequality #extremewealth #taxation

Torsten Bell is right on the button; we can only improve the plight of the poorest (both workers & those not in work) if our Govt. fully understand their plight.

They are more likely then the rich to be out of work for health reasons - so repairing the NHS is vital for them;

They'er too often in precarious & low-paid work, so their working lives need to be bettered;

The cost of living crisis continues & needs to be addressed properly!

#workers #poverty #inequality

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/17/to-turn-britain-around-we-need-a-proper-understanding-of-life-for-poorer-workers
#poverty #inequality #workers

Inequality 1/2:

In the Observer today, Eliza Filby (in an article summarising her new book, not yet online) uses a term I'd not heard before & like (but which doesn't originate with her):

the Inheritocracy

As she points out int he article & in her book, Britain has become a society patterned by what you inherit from your parents, alongside what after net they can provide as you build your life.

In other words (as I've posted on before) inheritance is an engine of inequality.

#inequality
#inequality

The consolidation of inequality via property wealth inter-generational transfers (via inheritance) will continue (or may even intensify) in the next twenty years... no wonder so much effort is made by the rich to convince the less well off that inheritance tax is an unjust imposition on the moderately well-off.

Until we start to deal with iniquities of the housing market & its mechanism of inequality solidification, we'll never tackle inequality!

#inequality #housing

https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2024/nov/16/middle-class-millennials-set-to-gain-most-from-unprecedented-wealth-transfer
#inequality #housing

Memes R Us
[meme-maker unknown]

See the flaws in this oversimplified meme and read the comment by @jrefior

#economics #education #inequality #billionaires #college #taxes #press #meme #PovertyTax
People who are not rich must borrow to afford college. So, in the long run, they wind up paying *more* than rich people who pay out of pocket upfront. In this way, student debt operates as a 'poverty tax' — a form of punishment for being poor & wanting a higher education,
#billionaires #meme #education #press #inequality #economics #taxes #college #povertytax @jrefior

While the budget offered a boost to the minimum wage & a smaller rise in universal credit levels (as well as some shifts in UC sanctions), the model for dealing with workplace-related economic inequality remains broadly in place.... which, perhaps at this stage in a new Parliament is understandable, even if actually its a system that really doesn't work well for anyone, other than the low-wage firms govt. policy is effectively subsidising.

#welfare #inequality

https://northwestbylines.co.uk/business/how-uk-policy-on-income-inequality-is-failing-low-paid-workers/

How UK policy on income inequality is failing low paid workers

The UK’s approach to tackling income inequality in the UK may be harming as much as it helps by subsidising profits while workers are stuck in low paid jobs.
Chris May (North West Bylines)
#inequality #welfare

Librarians are (social) heroes; stepping up when other social services have fallen away, to help those with few other places to go...

No wonder the Right wants to defund the libraries (via attrition against local authorities), when you look at the pragmatic but vital social support they are offering to the vulnerable & isolated.

[this is a long read but worth it]

#Libraries #inequality
@bookstodon

https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/jun/25/how-britains-libraries-provide-more-than-books
#libraries #inequality @bookstodon group

Latest comic: Floored

#inequality #unhoused #homeless #cartoon #comic #travel
Floored 1. On a recent foundation-funded trip to DC, I was starkly reminded of America's growing economic divide. Jen walking past unhoused person sleeping on street with jewelry store window in the background 2. While people slept on the sidewalk nearby, I was put up in a hotel that catered to every conceivable human desire for comfort* *a rare occurrence Jen in large bed with high thread count sheets and mints on the bedside table. Thought balloon reads "This is so great." 3. The next night, I found myself sleeping on an airport floor alongside hundreds of people whose flights were canceled. Jen uncomfortably lying on airport floor using a backpack as a pillow. Outside the window it is snowing on the tarmac Thought balloon: "I would never survive on the streets." At least I still had access to bathrooms and $15 prepackaged sandwiches. 4. It occurred to me that this is the only public space where it's socially acceptable to have no place to sleep. Wide shot of several people lying on airport floor and flopped on chairs ... a tiny bourgeois taste of the real thing.
#comic #travel #Cartoon #inequality #Unhoused #homeless

Over six years after the #GrenfellTowerfire the remediation of faulty & dangerous #building materials remains desperately slow, with building contractors dragging their feet, and Govt. slow to act.

However, when compared with the #HorizonIT & #infectedblood scandals, it reinforces the picture of UK #political #inequality;

when normal people are effected the socio-legal systems of sanction & restitution are slow to move & usually incomplete!

Powerlessness is fatal!

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/09/life-critical-fire-issues-found-in-56-of-grenfell-cladders-residential-blocks
#inequality #political #GrenfellTowerfire #building #horizonit #infectedblood

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