Time to change the rules of the game for extreme wealth
In this edition of the Monitor, we collaborated with the Resource Movement, a youth-led community of upper-middle class and wealthy people who are working toward the redistribution of wealth, land, and power.
In this Monitor, it’s their voices that you will hear. It’s their ideas that you will read. And, hopefully, it’s their passion—and compassion—to reduce inequality that you will share.
Extreme wealth: Time to change the rules of the game
This edition of the Monitor collaborated with the Resource Movement, a community working toward the redistribution of wealth, land, and power.
The Resource Movement members share stories about how they ended up wealthy—and the responsibility they feel to do good with their situation.
Exposing the myth of meritocracy
Over the past three or four decades, Canada has seen skyrocketing inequality, coupled with a growing ‘stickiness’ in wealth and opportunity.
The $1 trillion question: Why we are asking you to tax our inheritance
An estimated $1 trillion is moving from the bank accounts and real estate portfolios of the Baby Boomers into the hands of their children.
What if we viewed tax time as a harvest festival?
Where we collectively gather the resources to support one another
Solidarity philanthropy: Changing how we give to support social change
Philanthropic donors need to step up as advocates to change the system that created the need for philanthropy in the first place.
Street smarts: Lessons from <em>Sesame Street</em>
Throughout its existence, Sesame Street prioritized and was rooted in community.
Extreme wealth is deactivating our democracy
We must address the root of the problem: the distribution of power and wealth
