Aspen Anti-Billionaire Society

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/41783507

The investigation shows that billionaires have become ‘ludicrously’ wealthier.

"People are fed up with billionaires' greed eroding the environment and communities we depend on," said one supporter of the new initiative. "It's time for world leaders to listen and act."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32306750

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32235916

Jessica Corbett Jun 26, 2025

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/46779711

"We are very proud of this! We are nobodies, we have no money, nothing!" Tommaso Cacciari, from a group calling itself No Space for Bezos, told the BBC.

Without additional funding from Congress, close to 60,000 households are at risk of losing assistance, undoing years of progress in their lives and possibly increasing homelessness across the country by as much as 10 percent on average, and by even higher rates in some states.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/22250376

Head of U.S. rates strategy at TD Securities, Gennadiy Goldberg, said that the crux of the $37 trillion problem is that no one knows at what level the debt becomes unsustainable. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent acknowledged that the U.S. government has a spending problem, not a revenue problem.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-28/wealthy-americans-fuel-half-of-us-economy-consumer-spending (https://archive.ph/bdJ04)

And by haters I just mean folks who think $12B isn’t a low enough cap…

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31656095

Mr Bezos, 61, is expected to arrive in the lagoon next week aboard his 417ft yacht the Koru. The largest sailing yacht in the world, it boasts three tall masts and cost $500 million (£372 million) to construct.