It offers a set of bold policy proposals, including hefty wealth taxes on billionaires, sharp reductions in working hours, a change in diets and a shift of investment from materially intense sectors like industry and mining to education and health.
If these and other measures are taken, the report says 89% of the world population would see their incomes double by 2100 and global heating would be kept below 2C above the preindustrial average.
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thats the answer, thanks.
Jesus, while I admire the effort that must be the most frustrating job in the world.
Them: “Here’s the solution to saving humanity and our planet and creating equity and end suffering.”
Our leaders: “No.”
Our leaders: let me ask my boss
Gates, Bezos and Musk: “No”
The report will be unveiled and discussed at the World Inequality Conference from 4-6 June in Paris, with speakers including Ha-Joon Chang, Jean Drèze, Jayati Ghosh, Mariana Mazzucato, Branko Milanović, Lea Ypi and Gabriel Zucman.
Jason Hickel, a professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a visiting senior fellow at LSE, said: “It’s an important and timely intervention. All of this is technically feasible to achieve – we can have good lives for all within planetary boundaries – but it will require organised political struggle to make it happen.”
But how does it preserve shareholder profits?
And some poor CEO really needs a new yacht
All well and good but the wrong people are in charge and those people and the people that follow them are not simply going to step aside. A realistic policy to deal with that is also needed. I suppose it might be dealt with by education.
I suppose it might be dealt with by education.
No amount of education is going to get them to relinquish power voluntarily. They will use every tactic at their disposal, from propaganda to violence, to cling to it, and we must be prepared to counter that force.
Jason Hickel, a professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a visiting senior fellow at LSE, said: “It’s an important and timely intervention. All of this is technically feasible to achieve – we can have good lives for all within planetary boundaries – but it will require organised political struggle to make it happen.”
Very correct, and I think that it’s important that we have cohesive, economy wide experts collaborating to work on solutions to all of these issues.
This report will never come to fruition, but it helps to combat the narrative that “all this green leftist shit is just not feasible”. Because it starts to untangle that by demonstrating feasibility and paving the way for discourse that could at least improve the trajectory we are on
In US billionaires also control the education. In Europe it’s not much better.
