Fining #UnitedHealthcare $165 million is a #joke. $165 million is about 0.055% of their total #wealth...it would be like an average #American being arrested for speeding and the police send them a ticket demanding they pay a #fine of a fraction of one cent.
https://www.boston.com/news/health/2025/01/07/unitedhealthcare-insurers-to-pay-165-million-over-deceptive-practices/

America Is Locked in a New Class War

https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/07/class-demographics-trump-harris-election/

#WEALTH #EDUCATION #TRUMP #BABYLON #KEWLNEWS #PRESS

Exclusive: The Russian billionaires whose chemical factories fuel Russia's war machine

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-billionaires-whose-chemical-factories-fuel-russias-war-machine-2024-12-30/

Chemicals factories founded or owned by some of Russia's wealthiest men are supplying ingredients to plants that manufacture explosives used by Moscow's military during the war in Ukraine, an analysis of railway and financial data shows.

#Russia #chemicals #war #wealth #press

The number of people going hungry or otherwise struggling around the world is rising, while the amount of money the world’s wealthiest nations are contributing toward helping them is dropping. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/24/world/society/global-hunger-crisis-deepens/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #wealth #aid #food #hunger #syria #sudan

The #media these days: «why killing the ultra-rich responsible for your malaise is bad, actually (sponsored content)»

#CEOmurder #UHC #wealth #inequality #justice

Ten ways in which rich, white, straight, educated males aren't lucky.

A thread.

https://mas.to/@KatyElphinstone/113483290183581137

#Power #Heirarchy #Oppression #Wealth #Discrimination

Sycophant Trump Donor With No Military Experience Tapped to Run US Navy

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trump-picks-republican-megadonor-to-lead-navy-despite-no-military-experience/

#GOP #wealth #nationalsecurity #press

“ People don't have a strong intuitive sense of how much bigger 1 billion is than 1 million. 1 million seconds is about 11 days. 1 billion seconds is about 31.5 years.” @Paul_Franz #meme #quotes #time #wealth #math

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

#inequality #land #wealth

Small violin klaxon:

Quoted in FT regarding tax measures in Rachel reeves' budget, specifically various inheritance tax reliefs:

'Historic Houses, which represents more than 1,000 independently owned and operated houses, castles and gardens in the UK, said its members were in effect “rural small- and medium-sized enterprises” that were “often asset rich but cash poor”.'

If I was looking to secure sympathy over tax rises, stately home owners would not be my choice of example.

#taxes #wealth

Some years ago FT's How To Spend It supplement (now HTSI) was saved by reader pressure (many seemed to read it ironically).... nowadays it is a window into the walled garden of the liberal wealthy, who would reject the nouveau riche looks of Hello & the crass gold plated consumerism of the vulgar rich.... but who have the money to shelter them from the vicissitudes of contemporary life.

I used to read it & wryly smile at the relentless 'good taste'... now I more often grind my teeth

#wealth

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/07/investing/billionaires-net-worth-trump-win/index.html

Wednesday wasn’t just a good day for Trump. The wealth of the world’s 10 richest people also soared by a record amount. The world’s 10 richest people got a record $64 billion richer from Trump’s reelection.

- Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index

#wealth #richestpeople #investing #billionaires

#UN #wealth #humanity #capitalism #imperialism #oligarchy #finance #debt #money #power #blackrock #vanguard #deepstate #banksters #poverty

The richest 1 percent grabbed nearly two-thirds of all new #wealth worth $42 trillion created since 2020, almost twice as much money as the bottom 99 percent of the world’s population, reveals a new #Oxfam report today. During the past decade, the richest 1 percent had captured around half of all new wealth.

1% of people captured 2/3 of all wealth.

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/richest-1-bag-nearly-twice-much-wealth-rest-world-put-together-over-past-two-years

#Irish #workers #pay fell 3.9% behind inflation last year, equivalent to a €2,107 pay cut or working 8.3 days for free.
Most alarmingly, extreme #wealth and extreme #poverty have both increased - for the first time in 25 years
#Oxfam said there is an urgent need for#Ireland to discuss taxing #ExtremeWealth to balance #executive pay and #workers pay.

#InternationalWorkersDay

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2023/0501/1380010-inflation-oxfam/