Every night, dozens of billionaires curl up with an underfed model, wondering where their next plate of wealth-affirming foie gras will come from. But heartless Americans don’t care. They want billionaires to pay for universal healthcare, universal basic income (UBI), free college, and a pocket comb for Bernie.
What if they met every demand? Would we be satisfied? What if the real problem is something far more sinister? Find out what it is – and what we can do about it – on the latest episode of The McFuture Podcast with Steve Faktor.
Links from the episode:
Further reading
Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel, Stanford professor, on the four 'fixes' for inequality
What Money Can’t Buy by Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel (and related article) Forget Socialism Versus Capitalism. Here’s the Real Debate We Should Be Having.
My take on inequality - Inequality We Trust
Videos
That recycling video from World Economic Forum of all the amazing things you can do with plastic water bottles
Brilliant illustration (video) of corruption in our system by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez...and the irony.
Some sources/stats
FIJI Water Leads Bottled Water Industry In Looking Green(er) - Where are the riots??
I warned us in 2011 the 99%-ers are coming
Nick Hanauer wrote in 2014 The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats
62% of American millionaires and 67% of the world’s billionaires are self-made
“there are approximately six million unfilled skilled labor jobs in America” - Entrepreneur
The US has 585 billionaires with a combined net worth of around $2.5 trillion
