By Chuck Collins, YES! magazine
Some inheritors of wealth are redirecting this wealth to solve big problems, like climate disruption and racial inequity. And this has created a new ethos among some of the elite and their financial advisers: “wealth minimization.”
By Jody Tishmack, Anima/Soul
The dream of seeing your children attain a better life than you is a human dream of every parent. Equality and justice for all cannot exist when too few have too much, and the majority have too little.
By Laurie Macfarlane, Open Democracy
How the fruits of wealth creation should be divided between capital, land and labour has been subject of considerable debate throughout history. In 1817, the economist David Ricardo described this as “the principal problem in political economy”.
By Ugo Bardi, Cassandra's legacy
Today, a lot of the world's monetary wealth is in the hands of a tiny group of super-rich people; the virtual equivalent of Scrooge McDuck's money bin.
By Diego Mantilla, Cassandra's legacy
Would a fairer distribution of income worldwide diminish the damage humans are doing to the earth?