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In The Great Leveler, Walter Scheidel argues that over thousands of years, only mass violence and catastrophes have triggered significant reductions in inequality. From the book’s introduction: For thousands of years, civilization did not lend itself to peaceful equalization. … stability favored economic inequality. This was as true of Pharaonic Egypt as it was of Victorian England, as true of the Roman Empire as of the United States. … Four different kinds of violent ruptures have...

The Swiss Sovereign Money Initiative targets the Swiss banks, that already today are quite conservative in giving new loans.  It fails to target the real responsible of the massive Swiss money creation, the Swiss National Bank. “If you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.” –Josiah Stamp Isaac Davis, Staff...

Une révolution silencieuse et feutrée a eu lieu. Le mot est fort? Il l’est si vous bénéficiez encore d’une certaine sécurité. Mais il ne l’est pas si vous appartenez à la catégorie des retraités, des working poors, des intérimaires, des bénéficiaires d’un contrat de travail de zéro heure, des chômeurs actuels ou potentiels qui ne risquent pas de retrouver un emploi à plus ou moins brève échéance. le Larousse définit la révolution de différentes manières. Nous en retiendrons 2: « Changement...