Graphs and charts showing how inequality and household debt in the USA have risen since 1980, especially compared to the more equitable period from 1945-80.
via Phil
Another warning: Do not ask your guests what they would like to drink. They have no idea, even if they think they do. If you listen to them, you will be assaulted with a sorry combination of indecisiveness, insecurities, uncertainties, and misinformation.
“I also know it’s wrong that every few years we’re faced with an “emergency” that could have been prevented, that aid groups must frantically try to raise money to respond, that journalists need to find emaciated babies at death’s door and film and photograph and write about them before the world gives a damn.
[…]
He comes with an iPad, I come with a notebook.
Both of us steal dignity and neither of us belong.”
Oh my lord I want this
