What's Changing? - Equality

Please see below selected recent equality-related change.
See also:
In figures:
- Women’s unpaid care work has a monetary value of $10.8 trillion a year
- Homosexuality now legal in most countries
December 2020
Please see below selected recent equality-related change.
See also:
In figures:
December 2020
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Does Bitcoin herald a revolution in how we will create, exchange and spend money? Launched in 2009 by an anonymous developer, Bitcoin saw a c.1300% spike in value since the beginning of 2013, before recent steep falls suggested it might be a bubble. The Atlantic noted that starting your own currency is "not as complicated as it sounds.
World's wealthiest 1% control 43% of global assets:top 10% own 83%.Bottom 50% own only 2%.Unsustainable contrasts->revolutions - Patrick Dixon (on Twitter)
Who remembers the money barons of their day, or even knows their names? If you want your name to live after you, do not give all your thought to money - Edwin Baird
To rebel against the idea that income must come before intimacy is revolutionary indeed - Theodore Zeldin Intimate History of Humanity, p118
Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repairing - Billy Rose
Most people never feel secure because they are always worried that they will lose their job, lose the money they already have, lose their spouse, lose their health, and so on. The only true security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way, that you are increasing the calibre of who you are and that you are valuable to your company, your friends, and your family - Anthony Robbins