#Inequality

Tom Forth

thomasforth

Fantastic thread by Jacob which argues for shifting vaccine emphasis in the EU away from recent bickering aimed at increasing supply (and unlikely to boost supply by much) towards "spreading

Nikhil Bukowski

NikhilBukowski

𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗 Ever wonder why π takes the specific value it does?Well … this thread isn’t about that. Instead, I’ll discuss other values that “pi” might take. Spoiler: it can be

Arthur Wyns

ArthurWyns

71 countries have now submitted new or updated national climate commitments (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement.But how does the COVID-19 pandemic feature in these climate plans?A thread 1/ The

Merise Sedai

AlexWestSedai

Reluctant heroes are classist as fuck (also racist, sexist, and generally any other -ist that is employed to defend and preserving systemic inequality)- a ranty thread: #TwitterOfTime I grew up

Andrew J. Hawkins 🚇🚌🚲🛴

andyjayhawk

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is about to be interviewed by @karaswisher & @profgalloway guy-rubbing-hands-together-and-licking-lip-dot-gif Uber/Lyft/DoorDash have committed $100M to pass Prop 22 to allow it to bypass AB5. Union-backed gro

Kanekoa

KanekoaTheGreat

1/ In @RayDalio's perspective, we are at the very late stages of the long term debt cycle. These long term debt cycles typically take 50-75 years to play out. This

Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab

saragoldrickrab

Good morning! Did you attend college? Are you attending now?Tell me— during that time, ever encounter an expense you struggled to afford? Short on money for rent? Books? #RealCollege How

Prof Juju 🌍🌹🌱💙 #FreeDishaRavi #FarmersProtest

JKSteinberger

Just your friendly reminder that the notion we have to replace current energy supply levels with low-carbon sources is a fossil fuel industry talking point, which purposefully ignores (1) efficiency

Seán Jones

seanjonesqc

Brexit was sold on an implicit (and occasionally explicit) promise: that it was a solution to a problem. The root problem was inequality and the destitution that resulted from austerity.

Dexter Roberts

dtiffroberts

Anecdotally, I had heard that the pandemic was hitting China’s migrants much harder; this research by @kamwchan and team shows worst fears confirmed.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15387216.2020.1791726#.XxJEdL_FUt1.twitter 2

DREW DANIEL

DDDrewDaniel

If you want to understand why boomer accusations of millenial "entitlement" are so enraging, take a look at this chart. (if it was just a matter of investments rising in

John Hayward

Doc_0

Privileged elites always want to assert their status by indulging in pleasures denied to the lower classes. This often leads them into immoral, deranged, and even criminal behavior. They're desperate

Roaring Rudy Havenstein

RudyHavenstein

"...when you look at the wealth disparity today, which by the way, in my opinion, the biggest accelerant of has been QE, it's not even debatable..." - Stan Druckenmiller on

Jonathan Smucker

jonathansmucker

The story of who was key in defeating Trump is a critical contest in framing Biden’s popular mandate.A message strategy thread: Trump’s defeat is the result of a massive multiracial

Sam Easterby-Smith

samscam

There’s an internal @TheGreenParty election going on, including positions for leader and deputy leader. Here’s my stream of consciousness (a thread) The context right now is pretty awful: COVID-19, actual

RealScientists | Counts

realscientists

Hey it's @AstroRickman here I wanted to chat about how I ended up becoming a scientist Because scientists are just normal people that have to start out somewhere in the

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