Property of the elite being bequeathed to descendants implies that the descendants do no work to acquire it. There is no economic reason for it to be a freebie for them. A reminder from these lines from a 1979 song from Golmaal "Paisa kamaane ke liye bhi paisa chahiye"

📣Back the campaign: Join the Demo! ✊We are calling on UNISON Scotland members and the people of Glasgow to stand with NHS staff next Tuesday at 12.30, Albion St, to demand NO cuts to NHS jobs in Glasgow’s HSCP 💪All welcome! Bring your banners and chants. Let’s defend the NHS!

“The system has failed, its time to step in.” Prabhat Patnaik Time to fight inequality. Time to put an end to policies that only work for the super rich. Time for change. #EndTheBillionaireRaj #LokSabhaElections2024 #TaxTheTop #TaxTheRich youtube.com/watch?v=bDec1B…

India's top 1% shares are at historial highs, surpassing even the levels under the British Raj. 👇 The top 0.001% (fewer than 10K persons) own *three times* as much wealth as the entire bottom 50% (over 46 crore persons). Time to #TaxTheTop and #EndTheBillionaireRaj!

In today's Hindu, we address some recent debates on household debt and savings, point out signs of structural shift and discuss some macroeconomic challenges. thehindu.com/business/Econo…

Indian billionaires are largely an upper caste club. Time to #TaxTheTop and #EndTheBillionaireRaj Nitin Kumar Bharti, Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty and I present new wealth tax & inheritance tax proposals on the wealthiest 0.04%. Short thread:

During the ongoing heatwave, Amazon warehouse workers are forced to rest in locker rooms due to lack of proper facilities. AIWA urges Amazon to provide decent resting areas and implement immediate heat protection measures. ✊🏽#AmazonWorkers #Heatwave #MakeAmazonPay

Gamifying health insurance is becoming a global phenomenon among gig employers! After India's Swiggy, here's Rest of World's dispatch from Nigeria about how Bolt is driving its gig workers towards risk by linking insurance to performance. By Jesusegun Alagbe restofworld.org/2024/bolt-nige…

30 travel stipends available! YSI pre-conference workshop on research & publishing in HET is scheduled a day before the ISHET conference. Young Scholars Initiative SHoET ysi.ineteconomics.org/event/ysi-pre-… W/ Rebeca G Betancourt 🏳️‍🌈 Richard Van Den Berg Scott Carter Ashwath KR Sushmita Rama Subrahmanyam Anwesha

8 workers from Latehar, Gumla and Palamu working on a pineapple farm in Kerala's Mudakkala village (Attingal municipality) are being threatened by the farm owner who's not letting them come back. Wages worth Rs 61,000 being held back by the owner. Champai Soren Adv. Adoor Prakash

Amazon India Workers Association (AIWA) supported by UNI Global Union responds to Amazon’s acceptance of labour law violations in Haryana warehouses. NHRC's intervention is crucial for justice. Amazon India must uphold labor standards. ✊

📢 ACTION ALERT 📢 In June, Uber began locking drivers out of its app mid-shift to avoid paying them a fair wage. Tomorrow at 1pm, 1,000+ drivers will march on Uber headquarters to demand an end to this egregious practice - the largest ever mobilization of this kind. Join us!

India has an unusual inflation. Average inflation is 5.2% but vegetable inflation 30%. Hence the rich, for whom vegetable is a tiny fraction of spending inflation is not that high. For the middle class & the poor who spend a large part on food & vegetables, inflation is sky high.

Do YOU trust @Amazon to protect workers? We didn’t think so. Tell Bernie Sanders to release the report on its safety record and hold CEO Andy Jassy responsible for fixing it. amazon-hurts.fftf.cat

Glasgow ready to not let hate divide us. Refugees are people of Glasgow.

"We are excited to present our new animated film, which vividly explains the theory of labor time calculation in just a few minutes." - Comrades from IDA libcom.org Notes from Below Endnotes Cosmonaut ☭ Calverts design and print Plan C The Virginia Worker en.labournet.tv/alternative-ca…

In today's The Hindu, Shravan_aakash and I write about the NDA government's obstinate refusal to focus on welfare expenditure

Skilling Alone Won't Save Us: The Alarming Rise of Unsecured Jobs in India m.thewire.in/article/econom… Happy to share this joint research co-authored with Manikantha Nataraj published in The Wire