Duif - Columba livia domestica (by peacay)
My Debilitating Anxiety Decodes My Unread Work Emails
“Hi.”
This sounds friendly at first, sure. But the curt punctuation confirms that the sender is actually pretty pissed off about GOD KNOWS WHAT. I devote the next three hours speculating, pouring over everything I’ve said and done near and around this person in the past six months. (more)
“Societies with more income inequality have higher infant death rates than other societies:
Societies with more income inequality have higher rates of mental illness than other societies:
Societies with more income inequality have a higher incidence of drug use than other societies:
Societies with more income inequality have a higher high school drop out rate than other societies:
Societies with more income inequality imprison a larger proportion of their population than other societies:
Societies with more income inequality have a higher rate of obesity than other societies:
Individuals in societies with more income inequality are less likely to be in a different class of than their parents compared to other societies:
Individuals in societies trust others less than people in other societies:
Societies with more income inequality have higher rates of homicide than other societies:
Societies with more income inequality give less in foreign aid than other societies:
Children in societies with more income inequality do less well than children in other societies:
The authors sum it up pretty simply: : “Th[e] dissatisfaction [measured in this data is] a cost which the rich impose on the rest of society.”
Fantastic info - this is why we should focus on income inequity.
oh my god. is this real life?
Free Market = Unicorn
True. All these billionaires have made their wads because of government intervention — tax dollars that paid for roads, research grants, defense contracts, the establishment of the Internet, the judicial system that allows financial firms to do their predatory thing and much, much more.
All this anti-government, anti-tax rhetoric is really opposition to select government activities that don’t benefit me.
(Source: robot-heart-politics)
There as a study in which it comes out that thirty of the largest companies in the United States are now spending more on lobbying than they pay in federal taxes. …Who really pays for that? And the answer is America’s middle class — they’re the ones who are left to pick up all the pieces, to pay the taxes to keep the country running. And, more to the point, they’re the ones who are paying for the fact that there’s not enough money left to invest in our kids’ future.
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Massachusetts Senate candidate ELIZABETH WARREN, on The Daily Show (via andyouhavetogivethemhope) (Source: inothernews) |
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Romney’s money: how long would it take him to make what you earn in one year?
Here’s a fun game from Slate — enter YOUR annual income to see how long it would take Mitt to sit back and wait for that amount of money to appear in his many bank accounts around the world…
I put my income as 100,000. Guess what this said:
“In 2010, Mitt Romney made $100000 in 1 days 16 hours 26 minutes and 26 seconds.
It would take you 216 years 7 months 10 days 23 hours 44 minutes and 3 seconds to make what Mitt made in 2010.”
