Excessive Wealth Disorder Institute
@ewdinstitute.bsky.social
EWDi is working to ensure that the excessively rich stop hoarding wealth. https://www.excessivewealth.org
Save the planet...tax billionaires.
#Billionaires and their luxury lifestyles have an outsized impact on #climate change.
#Billionaires emit more carbon pollution in 90 minutes than the average person does in a lifetime.
The excessively rich are endangering our future. 🌎 excessivewealth.org 🔄 #climatechange #climate #earth #planet #change #wealth #inequality #economy #usa #economics
“I don’t get why you need $200 billion, $500 billion, or even $1 billion.” Read @yahoofinance.com here: finance.yahoo.com/news/gen-xer... #billion #nonprofit #nonprofits #billionaires #money #economy #economics #taxtherich #taxbillionaires #finance #finances
A Gen Xer sold his company for $1.6 billion. He kept less than $100 million and gave the rest away because he doesn’t ‘believe in billionaires’
EXCLUSIVE: Brian O’Kelley says he’s capped his wealth to $100 million. The tech founder tells Fortune, billionaires are wasteful, out of touch, and “othered” from real life.
finance.yahoo.com
Grok spewing hate speech is a prime example of how extreme wealth sows division and spreads toxicity in everyone's lives. The richest man in the world shouldn't be allowed to poison public attitudes about racism and antisemitism with no accountability.
Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust
The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names.
theatlantic.com
America's 885 billionaires are now sitting on more than $7 trillion. Analysis by @4taxfairness.bsky.social shows that the combined wealth of billionaires in the United States increased 141% since Trump's tax laws went into effect in 2017.
June 2025 was the 3rd-hottest June on record. Extreme weather is wreaking havoc across the country. We know that just 57 cement or fossil fuel companies were responsible for 80% of CO2 emissions from 2016-2022 – and yet the GOP tax bill handed Big Oil a $1 billion tax break.
Americans didn't want billionaires to get another tax break. In fact, likely voters overwhelmingly agree that billionaires pay too little in taxes already.
We hope every member of Congress was paying attention to Mike Flood's town hall, because the message doesn't get any clearer than this.
AI is creating new billionaires at an unprecedented pace and everyday Americans are footing the bill. The data centers required for AI consume a massive amount of electricity and strain electrical grids, driving up energy costs for millions of people.
The AI explosion means millions are paying more for electricity
Across much of the eastern U.S., electricity bills have jumped. The reason? Data centers required for AI and other tech wonders are driving up electricity demand.
washingtonpost.com
Massachusetts collected nearly $3 billion more in tax revenue thanks to their millionaire surtax. Analysis by The Budget Lab at Yale shows that implementing a federal surtax of 10% on Adjusted Gross Income above $1 million could raise $1.5 trillion over the next ten years.
#repost via @taxgreed.bsky.social 💸 “Americans pay the cost of #billionaire greed. The majority of SpaceX revenue comes from federal contracts, AKA American #taxpayers, while the company exploits our system to avoid paying federal income tax. #SpaceX CEO Musk is the richest person in the world.”
"Everyone should know that we’re heading to a #climate disaster that can best be modified by immediate actions addressing the causes. But it doesn’t appear that the excessively #rich are feeling the heat and stepping up to the plate..." Read @fortune.com here: fortune.com/2023/10/04/u...
The ultra-rich are not just the worst polluters–their donations to climate action are also another way of hoarding money and gaming the system
Each year, only 0.5% of the money sitting in private foundations and donor-advised funds goes to climate action.
fortune.com
"A new study links emissions inequality to #climate warming and extreme #heat, finding that as much as two-thirds of global #warming between 1990 and 2020 is attributable to the wealthiest 10 percent of the global..." Read @popconnect.bsky.social here: populationconnection.org/blog/study-w...
Study: World’s richest are driving climate catastrophes
A new study links emissions inequality to climate warming and extreme heat, finding that the wealthiest bear most of the responsibility.
populationconnection.org
"Vast fortunes, inherited or otherwise, simply would not exist without the assaults now destroying our planet. Taxing those fortunes to fund climate action could give us a shot at survival." Read @inequality.org here: inequality.org/article/the-... #climate #taxtherich #wealth #wealthinequality
Inequality.org
Your online portal to data, analysis, and commentary on income and wealth inequality.
inequality.org
"One issue with resolving the climate crisis is that doing so would require the world’s wealthiest people to make lifestyle changes." Read more here: davidsuzuki.org/story/save-t... #climate #climatechange #wealth #wealthy #economy #economics #billionaires #billionaire #earth #taxtherich #taxes
Save the climate, tax the rich
Extreme wealth inequality, pollution, species extinction and climate chaos are all symptoms of a sick system, one that isn’t serving the needs of most people.
davidsuzuki.org
Read here: www.bbc.com/future/artic... #climate #carbonemissions #carbon #climatechange #taxes #USA #nonprofit #nonprofits
How the rich are driving climate change
The world's wealthiest people make a huge contribution to climate change through carbon-hungry activities. How can we reduce emissions from the rich?
bbc.com
"60% of #billionaire #wealth in 2024 came from #inheritance, #monopoly power, or crony ties, not merit."
"Elon Musk’s rocket company relies on #federal contracts, but years of losses have most likely let it avoid paying federal income #taxes, according to internal company #documents." Read @nytimes.com here: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/t...
SpaceX Gets Billions From the Government. It Gives Little to Nothing Back in Taxes.
nytimes.com