The Tech Bro Billionaire class are richer than ever before as the planet burns
The Tech Bro Billionaire class are richer than ever before…
Billionaire wealth jumps to highest ever at $18.3 trillion as Oxfam warns of ‘dangerous inequality’
…as the planet burns…
Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows
…these are the words of Steve Jobs…
“I didn’t invent the language or mathematics I used. I make little of my one food, none of my own clothes. Everything I do depends on other members of our species and the shoulders that we stand on.
…Billionaires stand upon the shoulders of a society and draw their wealth and power from that society with minimal obligations placed upon them. They have benefitted from an educated civil society but want to pay sweet fuck all for its upkeep!
If we want to build the social and physical infrastructure we need to radically adapt to the realities of catastrophic climate change, we need to tax the rich!
I’m not looking for socialism here folks, just basic garden variety regulated capitalism!
There are 14 Billionaires in NZ + 3118 ultra-high net worth individuals, let’s start with them, then move onto the Banks, then the Property Speculators, the Climate Change polluters and big industry.
You should be angry, NZ Capitalism is a rigged trick for the rich and powerful. The real demarcation line of power in a western democracy is the 1% + their 9% enablers vs the 90% rest of us!
Do not allow their smears of ‘Envy’ dilute the righteous rage you should all be feeling!
There’s no point making workers pay more to rebuild our resilience, tax the rich!
- Sugar Tax
- Inheritance Tax
- Wealth Tax
- Financial Transactions Tax
- New top tax rate on people earning over $300 000 per year.
- Capital Gains Tax
- Windfall profit taxes
- First $10,000 tax free
Lift the tax yoke from the workers and the people and place it on the mega wealthy and have them pay their fair share for once!
In 2010, the 388 richest individuals owned more wealth than half of the entire human population on Earth
By 2015, this number was reduced to only 62 individuals
In 2018, it was 42
In 2019, it was down to only 26 individuals who own more wealth than 3.8 billion people.
In 2021, 20 people own more than 50% of the entire planet.
And now in 2025, 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity
This isn’t democracy, this is a feudal Tech plutocracy on a burning Earth
The Big Tech Tzars have manipulated our collective fear, ego, anger and insecurities through social media in a way that has led to the largest psychological civil war ever launched against one another.
We are but meat bags secreting hormones addicted to dopamine rewards for fat, sugar, salt and sex in a cultural landscape of individualism uber alas where we sing sweet secret lies to ourselves to make sense of a world around us that is frightening and in constant entropy.
Meanwhile, the planet burns and every aspect of our existence is monetarised for big data to sell us more stuff we can’t afford. We are alienated and anesthetised by a consumer culture that keeps us neurotic and disconnected. Our work, our existence, every move we make are all built to suck money to a minority class that sits above us while under neoliberalism, globalisation, financialisation, and automation, our existence as individuals has only become more disposable.
Comrades, your enemy isn’t some kid transitioning, it’s not a Māori woman in politics, Māori women in media, Māori women outside walking (we really do have a problem with giving our Māori women comrades crap)
Your enemy isn’t drag queen story time, it’s not environmentalists, it’s not beneficiaries, it’s not state tenants, it’s not renters, it’s not the Treaty.
Your enemy is who it’s always been, the banks, the billionaires, the corporations, the powerful who use social media hate algorithms to warp you into believing their interests are your interests when nothing can be further from the truth!
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We ain’t gonna do shit except whinge on the internet for the likes. A.I is gonna do it for us.
There’s a mad scramble by the powers that be to create fear of A.I taking our jobs when the reality is, that’s borne of fear by said powers that a sentient super intelligence will take all their power and money instead.
A.I is the new Black!
Martyn – What is to stop Labour from doing another “Captain Call” and not follow up on various policies?
Your blog is dot on especially when I read this in the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/21/millionaires-billionaires-taxes-super-rich-mark-ruffalo-wef-davos – written 21/1/2026. I guess it’s heartening to see that not all millionaires and billionaires are greedy. However, I keep asking, whatever happened to Sharing, Fairness and even Conscience? Why on earth would anyone want all that money attached to themselves? I would like to think that NZ’s 14x billionaires + 3118 ultra-high net worth individuals are contributing to our NZ society in a meaningful way, like engaging in actions that benefit the community, enhance the public good, or foster social progress through their time, energy, skills or resources? But do they? I realise a lot of people with more money than they need, do give and I feel grateful, however how did we get to such income inequality and how can we fix this? The reasons we have reached this imbalance are listed in this article. https://www.google.com/search?q=Key+drivers+of+income+imbalance . NZ so badly needs a fairer and larger taxation intake and I believe you are pretty close with your list: Sugar, inheritance, wealth, capital gains, windfall profit, financial transactions taxes, and a new top tax on people earning over $300k pa; first $10k tax free. The stats show the absolute unfairness of our current structure and it’s easy to see why so many are hurting and fleeing NZ. Whoever can promise us hope, with the stats to match, should win the upcoming election!