A tiny amount of people own more wealth than most of humanity.
Gabriel Zucman brings receipts to show how wealth that has been accumulated at the very top has ballooned.
In the UK, just 50 families own more than half the population combined.
It's time for a wealth tax.
Alex Jones owed the Sandy Hook families more than $1.4 billion for calling the shooting a hoax and turning his audience on them for years. He has paid none of it. A court ordered it. He ignored the court. He moved his show to a different website and kept going.
The Onion bought the Infowars brand at auction, built a parody version using the same shock loops and supplement sales and rage triggers that made Jones' audience feel like something was always around the corner, and is opening by sending $100,000 to the families from merchandise revenue. Their attorney says every dollar Jones makes until the end of his life will be claimed by the families. Jones has been left, in the words of one of those attorneys, with an iPhone and a fancy microphone.
Robbie Parker's daughter died at Sandy Hook in 2012. He plans to read from his book about grieving and fighting Jones in the Austin studio where Jones used to sit. Not because it will change what happened. Because it is the one thing left available to them that Jones cannot take away.