#politics #plutocracy

The plutocratic class captured political power, destroys the world (the richer you are, the more environmental damage you’re responsible of) and simply shouldn’t exist. Don’t talk about liberty, there is no freedom without equality. We must rid the world of plutocrats.

We’re living in plutocracy:

In the US:

• Gilens & Page (2014) “Testing Theories of American Politics” https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B
• Gilens (2005) “Inequality and Democratic Responsiveness” https://www.jstor.org/stable/3521574
• Bartels (2016) “Unequal Democracy - The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age”, https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781400883363/html

Same in EU:

https://unequaldemocracies.unige.ch/files/1616/3775/1413/wp31.pdf

Why we must limit wealth drastically:

• Robeyns (2017) “Having Too Much” https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2736094
  • Axelsen & Nielsen (2023) “What’s Wrong With Extreme Wealth?” https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14789299231195453
• Robeyns (2022) “Why Limitarianism?” http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0338.07

I have tons of other papers. The point is proven. Eat the rich.