Aspen Anti-Billionaire Society

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A community dedicated to spreading awareness of the negative impacts of the billionaire class, especially the 250 richest people on the planet

We believe that the existence of the 0.01% comes at a cost to the rest of us, even multi-millionaires, and hope to spread awareness of this problem among the 1% (who have the most resources to affect change)

All discussion and links related to wealth inequality and related activism are welcome. We hope that this community can serve as an easily accessible repository of information about wealth inequality

Please meet disagreement with civility so we can foster productive discourse

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Where Did All Your Money Go? (midwest.social)
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See the stickied comment below for an explanation and statement of our purpose, based on simple back-of-the-napkin math

E: if someone could please link this community to r/aspen and r/roaringforkvalley I would greatly appreciate it. I’ve been IP banned by the all powerful AI mod monster, like many folks on Lemmy

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The U.S. is Giving Up on Taxing Inheritances (www.washingtonpost.com)
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The Number of Unhoused Young Children Is at Crisis Level. It’s Set to Get Worse. (truthout.org)
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cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/3168364

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Why America Sucks at Everything (tymon@lemmy.zip ) (www.youtube.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/41167231

I produced this video for The Gravel Institute a few years back before the organization folded.

It’s popped off again recently for some reason. Maybe because everything has gotten worse?

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The Wealth Pixel - Visualizing Wealth Shown To Scale (eattherichtextformat.github.io)
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A classic tool for visualizing just how rich the 0.01% are. This has been around for many years and may not be updated to 2025, but is still a very effective tool for visualizing just how rich a billionaire is

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Raising the Minimum Wage Through Tax Policy - Emmanuel Saez (Professor of Econ, UC Berkley) and Gabriel Zucman (eml.berkeley.edu)
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Interesting paper that offers one perspective of using tax policy to achieve the same overall effect as a minimum wage increase, and worth some discussion IMO. Link is directly to a pdf of the paper itself

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Minimum Wage Needed to Meet Cost of Living in US States (OC) (midwest.social)
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cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/29856302

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/29825277

By popular demand, one last map to examine the absurdity of the American economy.

If you saw my map from yesterday that was up most of the day, please see the corrected version below. I done goofed hard on copying a column of state names. The original post has been corrected, but I will also post my previous two maps on this post for easy comparison.

Edit: the red map, for anyone unaware, is based on current individual state minimum wages and not the current federal minimum wage