Future Index

Topics

Inequality and poverty

Attention around Inequality and poverty is about usual, and has risen over the last 24 hours.

EconomyGLOBAL

Signals

What moved

The largest movements across forecasts, attention, discussion sentiment and reporting in the last 24 hours, each compared with how much that topic usually moves.

  1. Discussion sentimentPublic discussionHacker News

    Discussion turned more negative sharply

    5.3× its usual variation — far larger than usual

    -32

    −37.4 ptsdown over the last 24 hours

10 changes were compared.

Across signals

No relationships between signals were detected this week. Checked 1 topic: 1 had a forecast contract moving well outside its usual range and 1 had unusually high public attention, and none of them showed a second layer doing something measurable at the same time.

What was reported

Occurrences reported on this topic, the most widely reported first. One entry per occurrence, however many outlets carried it, and the count on each is the outlets that reported it independently.

  1. Billionaire Palmer Luckey isn’t leaving California over the wealth tax opens in a new tab

    1 independent origin · low confidence

    TechCrunch

  2. California’s billionaire tax faces a precarious road from rich opposition opens in a new tab

    1 independent origin · low confidence

    Al Jazeera English

What people are discussing

Posts and shared links on the discussion platforms this site reads that are about this topic, over the last two days, the most discussed first. Titles are the platform's own. Counts are the platform's where it publishes them, and otherwise the comments or shares this site read; none of it is a figure this site calculates.

  1. Top Democrats are fighting a billionaire tax in California. Their voters are on the other side | opens in a new tab

    27 commentsLemmydiscussion opens in a new tab

  2. Support dwindles for wealth tax, voter ID ballot measures, new poll shows opens in a new tab

    16 commentsLemmydiscussion opens in a new tab

  3. Billionaire tax: how a union leader’s ‘crazy’ idea became the defining issue of California’s midterms opens in a new tab

    4 commentsLemmydiscussion opens in a new tab

7 more posts — show them
  1. Billionaire tax: how a union leader’s ‘crazy’ idea became the defining issue of California’s midterms opens in a new tab

    3 commentsLemmydiscussion opens in a new tab

  2. Support dwindles for wealth tax, voter ID ballot measures, new poll shows opens in a new tab

    2 commentsLemmydiscussion opens in a new tab

  3. Billionaire tax: how a union leader's idea became defining issue of CA midterms opens in a new tab

    2 comments1 pointHacker Newsdiscussion opens in a new tab

  4. Top Democrats are fighting a billionaire tax in California. Their voters are on the other side opens in a new tab

    shared in 1 postMastodon

  5. Billionaire tax: how a union leader’s ‘crazy’ idea became the defining issue of California’s midterms opens in a new tab

    1 commentLemmydiscussion opens in a new tab

  6. These Bay Area counties have the highest income inequality in the state — San Francisco Chronicle opens in a new tab

    shared in 1 postMastodon

  7. India's Extreme Poverty Drops From 27.1 percent To 2.6 percent In 12 Years: World Bank opens in a new tab

    1 commentLemmydiscussion opens in a new tab

Forecast contracts

One row per source's own question. These are listed side by side for comparison and are not combined into a single figure — each source is answering its own question, in its own words.

  1. Forecast marketsManifold Markets
    26%somewhat unlikely±0.0 ptsunchanged over the last 24 hours
  2. Forecast marketsPolymarket
    27%somewhat unlikely+5.0 ptsup over the last 24 hours

Readers' discussion on this site

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Sources

5 contributing sources — view breakdown

Attention

  • Hacker NewsPublic discussion46.9
  • Future Index internal search and pageviewsSearch & activity50.0
  • LemmyPublic discussion60.1
  • MastodonPublic discussion38.3
  • Wikimedia Pageviews (Analytics API)Search & activity67.7

How the attention figure is calculated · method version 3.0.0 · What these figures do not say