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
May 2020
Assets
Imagining the world in miniature
If the world were a village of 100 people, what would it look like? Various answers have circulated around the internet for years, but a set of 20 posters provides a visual perspective on this fascinating hypothetical question.
On how people really live
Dollar Street is a powerful and fascinating site, showing how people really live around the world. Dollar Street is a project from Gapminder, the foundation set up by the late, great Hans Rosling, who died a year ago from pancreatic cancer, aged only 68. He is missed.
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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)
Imagining new forms of currency
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.
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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)
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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
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To rebel against the idea that income must come before intimacy is revolutionary indeed - Theodore Zeldin Intimate History of Humanity, p118
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Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repairing - Billy Rose
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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