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Wealth Inequality: Who wants More Inequality?

August 18, 2019 August 18, 2019

The Wikipedia article on Wealth inequality in the United States describes wealth inequality as a problem almost every would like to see reduced. Yet wealth

August 18, 2019

The Economy: Farming Humanity or Seeking Happiness?

Farming Humans & Trickle Up Economics: How the wealthy get wealthy.

Commenced: January 26, 2017 Updated: April 9th, 2023

2023 April 9 th: Synopsis updated and new image

It was a reference to the wonderful children's politician's fairy tale of 'trickle down economics' that started me on the question: How do the wealthy get wealthy? The answer is by collecting wealth from many people, the more people contributing wealth, the more wealth to be gained. The effective path to great wealth is farming humans to collect a small amount of wealth or 'egg' from a percentage of humans 'in the farm', so the more humans in the farm, the more wealth for the farmer.

Wealth Tax: Good Idea? Bad Idea?

Commenced: October 17, 2019

Yes, another post on finances…but the Democrat candidates debate gets one thinking….now to the point. I do not like the idea of wealth tax. There is an enormous wealth inequality problem and while a wealth tax sounds like a direct solution, I feel there are problems with any implementation, such that there just must be […]

Wealth Inequality: Who wants More Inequality?

Commenced: August 18, 2019

The Wikipedia article on Wealth inequality in the United States describes wealth inequality as a problem almost every would like to see reduced. Yet wealth inequality is increasing, not decreasing. What gives? Is humanity unable to address this problem? Or is will to address the problem not as universal at it might appear? Either consensus […]