The “eat the rich” movement is destructive, and seems designed by the lesser of the upper echelons to hide themselves from the public’s wrath.
For all the left talk about “privilege”, their attitudes on core issues are increasingly those of the privileged, not the deprived.
The missing factor here is perhaps an absence of political will created by an abandonment of any foundational vision of what an independent Ireland might be.
One of the metrics that charted the improvement in working people’s lives over the past century or more was the increase in home ownership. From a situation where most people lived in rented or otherwise non private accommodation, home ownership rose steadily in the western democracies to a situation where most people in most countries […]
“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft, where we are hard, cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand.” Did F. […]
China has seen the wealth of its billionaires soar, despite the global economic collapse which was caused by the Covid-19 virus originating in the Wuhan province. With GDP growing 5% at a time when European nations are seeing double digit decline, China added 257 members to its billionaires club. In total China’s super-rich got €1.5 trillion […]
A new report has shown that even as economies are contracting and concerns about employment rise, the richest people in the world have seen their wealth rocket by a massive 27% during the COVID-19 crisis. A report by Swiss bank UBS and accounting firm PwC, found that global billionaire wealth climbed to a staggering $10.2 trillion […]
Sinn Féin’s spectacular and unforeseen triumph in the general election has brought new focus on the party and the way in which it is run. That has intensified as post-election polls would seem to point to an even better result in the event of coalition talks failing and a new election being called. All this […]
Published in the prestigious Lancet Psychiatry journal, the study found that exercise is more beneficial to one’s happiness than wealth, with those who exercise being markedly happier than those who have higher incomes but don’t exercise.