Has your fortune doubled since the pandemic started? It happened to the five richest men in the world. However, in the same few years, more than half of the world's population has become poorer. As a reader of this newsletter, you likely find yourself between these extremes, which is a good moment to remind ourselves how lucky we are in a world where hardship and hunger are a daily reality for many people worldwide.
You can call me a Socialist too because I also believe “we could do much better by having effective and fair governments that believe in a more equal world and are willing to regulate and reimagine the private sector.”
Seeing the unsurprising results in Iowa was difficult to digest even though it was expected. The incongruity of seeing voters dropping their ballots into a passed around paper bag was almost laughable considering the voter fraud the winner has screamed for three years. No ID required, no proof of residency, it was even possible multiple votes were cast by the same voter. And the ‘drill, baby, drill’ mantra was nauseating.
And the enormous disparity between the ultra wealthy and the ‘little people’ who help make their riches possible is obscene. These are people with no conscience, no sense of morality.
You have written an excellent article packed with so many points of immense importance it while take a while to digest it all. Thank you for the work you expended on behalf of the rest of us.
Thanks Lizzie, I just looked with a mixture of sadness and fascination to interviews with Trump supporters. It feels like they live on a different planet, like people who joined a religious cult; will they ever see that the emperor wears not clothes?
It’s genuinely appalling to see interviews of many of the Trump enthusiasts who obviously are uninformed and don’t wish to be. They’ve become so indoctrinated by his lies and disinformation they can’t see actual facts. Even more, it reveals a a vast number of people with shockingly low intelligence, education and/or afflicted by mental impairment.
"It is now five years later, and at the beginning of this new year, I feel frustrated that we know how to move towards a better, fairer, healthier, cleaner, and greener planet. However, we seem to be in a destructive cycle of running steadily further behind on what we should do while the masses run behind incompetent leaders with divisive agendas."
This, more than anything. I have always believed in hope, but watching 10,000+ children die at the hands of a madman my government supports has broken me. This has changed me and I'm working hard to determine how best to heal and move forward. My entire life has been spent walking among and on the fringes of the wealthy. I can see how this happened. I cannot see how to fix it.
I can so well understand how you must feel. Add to it a permanent feeling of guilt for living my wonderful life, while knowing what is happening just a few hours flying from here.
Anthony Blinken, actual 2024 US Secretary of State in his Davos symposium answers to Thomas Friedman, the NYT journalist, today expressed that leadership and leaders are an essential asset for a new and diplomatic compromise between people, countries and the rise of democracy.
Your newsletter stresses that same important principle everywhere possible.
It informs me about the candidates in the US 2024 election.
Plus it gives me homework since I read constitutional, historical and actual general information about the different states.
You also write infos about Trump that I came to despise and cut off
Both of you and Blinken are my heroes of the day !
“Mutual interest for a better future”; wouldn’t it be miraculous for the trillionaires to share a bit of their absurdly excessive wealth for the improvement of the lives of the most impoverished who did not choose to be born into impossible poverty with no road to economic equality? 🥲
I never understand why those ultra-rich do not even share more of their huge incomes with the people that make the income for them. Why not raise wages, improve working conditions, invest in your own employees happiness? They can do all that and still remain a billionaire. With only some 80 years to live on this planet, how much do you really need for your own happiness? Even from a purely selfish perspective, I believe my personal happiness as a billionaire would increase if I knew that my money would have made life better for many others. It may be part of the explanation why I'm still not a billionaire, but I keep writing my stories... ;-)
You can call me a Socialist too because I also believe “we could do much better by having effective and fair governments that believe in a more equal world and are willing to regulate and reimagine the private sector.”
Seeing the unsurprising results in Iowa was difficult to digest even though it was expected. The incongruity of seeing voters dropping their ballots into a passed around paper bag was almost laughable considering the voter fraud the winner has screamed for three years. No ID required, no proof of residency, it was even possible multiple votes were cast by the same voter. And the ‘drill, baby, drill’ mantra was nauseating.
And the enormous disparity between the ultra wealthy and the ‘little people’ who help make their riches possible is obscene. These are people with no conscience, no sense of morality.
You have written an excellent article packed with so many points of immense importance it while take a while to digest it all. Thank you for the work you expended on behalf of the rest of us.
Thanks Lizzie, I just looked with a mixture of sadness and fascination to interviews with Trump supporters. It feels like they live on a different planet, like people who joined a religious cult; will they ever see that the emperor wears not clothes?
It’s genuinely appalling to see interviews of many of the Trump enthusiasts who obviously are uninformed and don’t wish to be. They’ve become so indoctrinated by his lies and disinformation they can’t see actual facts. Even more, it reveals a a vast number of people with shockingly low intelligence, education and/or afflicted by mental impairment.
"It is now five years later, and at the beginning of this new year, I feel frustrated that we know how to move towards a better, fairer, healthier, cleaner, and greener planet. However, we seem to be in a destructive cycle of running steadily further behind on what we should do while the masses run behind incompetent leaders with divisive agendas."
This, more than anything. I have always believed in hope, but watching 10,000+ children die at the hands of a madman my government supports has broken me. This has changed me and I'm working hard to determine how best to heal and move forward. My entire life has been spent walking among and on the fringes of the wealthy. I can see how this happened. I cannot see how to fix it.
I can so well understand how you must feel. Add to it a permanent feeling of guilt for living my wonderful life, while knowing what is happening just a few hours flying from here.
I’m so sorry and share your pain.
🙏📜🌻🌏
I love this article.
Thank you, Alexander!!
you're welcome Marian :-)
Anthony Blinken, actual 2024 US Secretary of State in his Davos symposium answers to Thomas Friedman, the NYT journalist, today expressed that leadership and leaders are an essential asset for a new and diplomatic compromise between people, countries and the rise of democracy.
Your newsletter stresses that same important principle everywhere possible.
It informs me about the candidates in the US 2024 election.
Plus it gives me homework since I read constitutional, historical and actual general information about the different states.
You also write infos about Trump that I came to despise and cut off
Both of you and Blinken are my heroes of the day !
Congratulations :-))
Thank you Aida :-)
“Mutual interest for a better future”; wouldn’t it be miraculous for the trillionaires to share a bit of their absurdly excessive wealth for the improvement of the lives of the most impoverished who did not choose to be born into impossible poverty with no road to economic equality? 🥲
I never understand why those ultra-rich do not even share more of their huge incomes with the people that make the income for them. Why not raise wages, improve working conditions, invest in your own employees happiness? They can do all that and still remain a billionaire. With only some 80 years to live on this planet, how much do you really need for your own happiness? Even from a purely selfish perspective, I believe my personal happiness as a billionaire would increase if I knew that my money would have made life better for many others. It may be part of the explanation why I'm still not a billionaire, but I keep writing my stories... ;-)