Sam Pizzigati: Satisfaction and Smiles in an Unequal World
If President Obama played basketball with the king of Bhutan, would the world have a better shot at becoming a happier place?
Articles by Sam Pizzigati
Sam Pizzigati: A Promising Path for Pummeling Plutocracy
Looking for a quick fix to inequality? Stop your searching. We need to strategize instead for the long-term. A riveting new work helps us see how.
Sam Pizzigati: From a Sloppy Spreadsheet, an Eternal Truth
The lesson of the Reinhart-Rogoff affair: If we let wealth continue to concentrate — and corrupt our societies — we’ll all end up crying ‘96 tears.’
Sam Pizzigati: Not the Picture Picasso Would Have Painted
A colossal gift from a fabulously rich patron of the arts has the museum world buzzing. But hold the hosannahs. The rich aren’t saving us.
Sam Pizzigati: Brazil and the United States: A Shrinking Gap
Luxury fortresses. Armored cars. Helicopter commutes. The abominably unequal ‘good life’ may be closer than you think.
From Inequality, We Can’t Take a Vacation
What more vivid symbol of the indignity our contemporary corporate-driven inequality imposes than the Carnival Triumph. Thousands of people adrift, going nowhere in a nightmare of sewage and stench, while a billionaire chief executive sits far away in a courtside seat and cheers.
Sam Pizzigati: Why Some No Longer Sing the Beltway Blues
How do unequal societies solve the problems — like traffic congestion — that make us miserable? They come up with solutions that make life easier for rich people.
Sam Pizzigati: A Billionaire Obsesses, Our Politics Regresses
How much can a billion dollars buy? The undivided attention of America’s entire political and chattering classes. Case in point: our ongoing national fixation on debt and deficit.
Sam Pizzigati: Five Plutocracy-Busting Ideas from America’s Progressive Past
Americans today can take more than inspiration from the struggles against plutocracy that progressives waged years ago. They can take a host of still relevant — and cutting-edge — policy proposals, explains the newly published book, The Rich Don’t Always Win.
Sam Pizzigati: Finish This Sentence: The Rich Get Richer . . .
Yes, the poor have struggled mightily while our rich have become phenomenally flush. But middle-income American households haven’t been able to jump off the treadmill either.