# extreme wealth (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover extreme wealth. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Stressed Bee | The Bee's Mind part3](https://beesbeyond.substack.com/p/the-stressed-bee-the-bees-mind-part3) _2026-08-20 · Bees & Beyond · Bees & Beyond 🐝_ What chronic stress does to a hive from the inside, why it is harder to see than you think and what the biology says about recognising it before visible decline. ## [5 Bee Research Papers Everyone Should Read](https://beesbeyond.substack.com/p/5-bee-research-papers-everyone-should) _2026-08-17 · Bees & Beyond · Bees & Beyond 🐝_ Studies that changed what we understand about bees. ## [Four locked doors](https://www.faircomment.co.uk/p/four-locked-doors) _2026-08-17 · Will Snell · Fair Comment_ What it will take for the Burnham government to build a fairer Britain ## [Four locked doors](https://www.faircomment.co.uk/p/four-locked-doors) _2026-08-17 · Will Snell · Fair Comment_ What it will take for the Burnham government to build a fairer Britain ## [Did the Trees Know the Eclipse Was Coming?](https://beesbeyond.substack.com/p/did-the-trees-know-the-eclipse-was) _2026-08-13 · Bees & Beyond · Bees & Beyond 🐝_ Three spruce trees, fourteen hours and what the science says about bees. ## [Who Gets to Decide Which Species Deserve to Exist?](https://beesbeyond.substack.com/p/who-gets-to-decide-which-species) _2026-08-10 · Bees & Beyond · Bees & Beyond 🐝_ My thoughts on eco fascism ## [Three ways to skin a cat](https://www.faircomment.co.uk/p/three-ways-to-skin-a-cat) _2026-08-10 · Will Snell · Fair Comment_ Taxing wealth has to be part of our response to wealth inequality, but we also need to spread wealth wider at source and put 'guardrails' in place to minimise the negative spillovers ## [Why Bees Make Bad Decisions | The bee's mind part2](https://beesbeyond.substack.com/p/why-bees-make-bad-decisions-the-bees) _2026-08-06 · Bees & Beyond · Bees & Beyond 🐝_ Cognitive biases, irrational choices and what it means that a bee with one million neurons makes the same mistakes you do. ## [Apitherapy and the Art of Lying to Ourselves, Sincerely](https://beesbeyond.substack.com/p/apitherapy-and-the-art-of-lying-to) _2026-08-03 · Bees & Beyond · Bees & Beyond 🐝_ My thoughts on forcing bees to sting us ## [Why is no one asking billionaires difficult questions?](https://www.faircomment.co.uk/p/why-is-no-one-asking-billionaires) _2026-08-03 · Will Snell · Fair Comment_ High levels of wealth inequality are damaging our society, economy and democracy. But these arguments are rarely rehearsed when billionaires are challenged about their wealth, giving them a free pass. ## [Dissecting Series A Rounds (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/7puoDonXG7Ut) _2026-08-03 · **Sponsored**_ Two real Series A cases: timelines, investor sequencing, and common founder mistakes. ## [Does a Bee Feel Pain? | Bee's Mind PART1](https://beesbeyond.substack.com/p/does-a-bee-feel-pain-bees-mind-part1) _2026-07-30 · Bees & Beyond · Bees & Beyond 🐝_ The science behind how bees think, decide and respond ## [I Am Not Making Bee Merch](https://beesbeyond.substack.com/p/i-am-not-making-bee-merch) _2026-07-27 · Bees & Beyond · Bees & Beyond 🐝_ Why I chose not to turn my love for bees into another thing to buy. ## [July 2026 roundup](https://www.faircomment.co.uk/p/july-2026-roundup) _2026-07-27 · Jason Bunting · Fair Comment_ From the billionaire wealth machine of private equity to the tax system’s built-in bias against work, we make the case for making fairness the organising idea of a Burnham government ## [July 2026 roundup](https://www.faircomment.co.uk/p/july-2026-roundup) _2026-07-27 · Jason Bunting · Fair Comment_ From the billionaire wealth machine of private equity to the tax system’s built-in bias against work, we make the case for making fairness the organising idea of a Burnham government ## [The Bee Knows Where North Is. We Are Still Working Out How | The Bee's World 4](https://beesbeyond.substack.com/p/the-bee-knows-where-north-is-we-are) _2026-07-23 · Bees & Beyond · Bees & Beyond 🐝_ The evidence that bees can sense the Earth’s magnetic field, what it tells us about navigation and why this sense may be their most overlooked vulnerability. ## [What Actually Happens Inside a Plant During a Heatwave](https://beesbeyond.substack.com/p/what-actually-happens-inside-a-plant) _2026-07-20 · Bees & Beyond · Bees & Beyond 🐝_ The science behind why flowers can bloom while nectar becomes scarce ## [Ordinary wealth in every postcode](https://www.faircomment.co.uk/p/ordinary-wealth-in-every-postcode) _2026-07-20 · Jason Bunting · Fair Comment_ Why tackling extreme economic inequality will be the defining test of Andy Burnham's government and how he could do it ## [Beekeeping Diaries: When the old beekeeping calendar stops working](https://beesbeyond.substack.com/p/beekeeping-diaries-when-the-old-beekeeping) _2026-07-16 · Bees & Beyond · Bees & Beyond 🐝_ A strange season of delayed swarms, heatwaves, and adapting alongside the bees ## [Wealth Is Not Just Unequal. It Is Ecologically Destabilising.](https://beesbeyond.substack.com/p/wealth-is-not-just-unequal-it-is) _2026-07-13 · Bees & Beyond · Bees & Beyond 🐝_ What happens when you stop treating extreme wealth as a moral question and start treating it as a pressure on living systems ## [AI will kill off the lingering myth of meritocracy](https://www.faircomment.co.uk/p/ai-will-kill-off-the-lingering-myth) _2026-07-13 · Will Snell · Fair Comment_ We've gaslighted ourselves for years into believing that people's life trajectories owe much more to merit than luck. By removing our ability to measure merit, AI will finally put paid to that idea. ## [From any door to your door (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/aj8gpWEBnSls) _2026-07-13 · **Sponsored**_ Book rides, errands, deliveries, groceries and home help in one app ## [Bees Are Speaking Through the Wax. Here Is What They Are Saying | The Bee's World 3](https://beesbeyond.substack.com/p/bees-are-speaking-through-the-wax) _2026-07-09 · Bees & Beyond · Bees & Beyond 🐝_ Inside the vibrational language that runs through honeycomb, and the research that revealed a communication channel we barely knew existed. ## [What the Bees Already Knew About a Trillion Dollars](https://beesbeyond.substack.com/p/what-the-bees-already-knew-about) _2026-07-06 · Bees & Beyond · Bees & Beyond 🐝_ A beekeeper’s note on extreme wealth, ecological collapse and a system that confuses accumulation with progress ## [The billionaire factory](https://www.faircomment.co.uk/p/the-billionaire-factory) _2026-07-06 · Will Snell · Fair Comment_ Jack Jeffrey interviews Hettie O'Brien about private equity in the UK ## [The billionaire factory](https://www.faircomment.co.uk/p/the-billionaire-factory) _2026-07-06 · Will Snell · Fair Comment_ Jack Jeffrey interviews Hettie O'Brien about private equity in the UK ## [The Hidden Signal Inside Every Flower | The Bee's World 2](https://beesbeyond.substack.com/p/the-hidden-signal-inside-every-flower) _2026-07-02 · Bees & Beyond · Bees & Beyond 🐝_ Bees can detect electric fields in flowers. Here is what that changes about pollination. ## [June 2026 roundup](https://www.faircomment.co.uk/p/june-2026-roundup) _2026-06-29 · Jason Bunting · Fair Comment_ From the impacts of extreme wealth at the very top of society, to the experiences of young people navigating an unequal economy, this month we continued to examine how wealth shapes all of our lives. ## [June 2026 roundup](https://www.faircomment.co.uk/p/june-2026-roundup) _2026-06-29 · Jason Bunting · Fair Comment_ From the impacts of extreme wealth at the very top of society, to the experiences of young people navigating an unequal economy, this month we continued to examine how wealth shapes all of our lives. ## [The Chemical Language of Honey Bees | The Bee's World 1](https://beesbeyond.substack.com/p/the-chemical-language-of-honey-bees) _2026-06-25 · Bees & Beyond · Bees & Beyond 🐝_ How bees communicate through a chemical world so complex it took decades of chemistry to begin to map. ## [The old beekeeping calendar is breaking](https://beesbeyond.substack.com/p/the-old-beekeeping-calendar-is-breaking) _2026-06-22 · Bees & Beyond · Bees & Beyond 🐝_ And my records are not the only ones showing it ## [Wealth, power and fairness: in conversation with Mike Brewer](https://www.faircomment.co.uk/p/wealth-power-and-fairness-in-conversation) _2026-06-22 · Will Snell · Fair Comment_ The Resolution Foundation's Deputy Chief Executive on why the absolute size of wealth gaps matters as much as the relative ones, what extreme wealth does to power, and much more... ## [Find it on Amazon (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Hzp3xwJ416ER) _2026-06-22 · **Sponsored**_ Open the Amazon product listing to see details and availability ## [Watch Scottish Honey Bees In a Bucket Of Sticky Wax](https://beesbeyond.substack.com/p/watch-scottish-honey-bees-in-a-bucket) _2026-06-20 · Bees & Beyond · Bees & Beyond 🐝_ A recording from Bees & Beyond's live video [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/202857538/0e8e0017c8827b2404e3cb0ba61a62c2.mp3) ## [The Bee Sting Is Not a Weapon. It Is a Mistake | The Bee's Body 4](https://beesbeyond.substack.com/p/the-bee-sting-is-not-a-weapon-it) _2026-06-18 · Bees & Beyond · Bees & Beyond 🐝_ The evolutionary origin of the sting, why using it is fatal for the bee and what the venom is actually doing inside your skin. ## [Bees Are Not About Honey. They Are About Everything.](https://beesbeyond.substack.com/p/bees-are-not-about-honey-they-are) _2026-06-15 · Bees & Beyond · Bees & Beyond 🐝_ Here is why bees matter to every ecosystem on earth, and why cities might be their unexpected lifeline.\*\* ## [Growing up in the Unequal Kingdom](https://www.faircomment.co.uk/p/growing-up-in-the-unequal-kingdom) _2026-06-15 · Will Snell · Fair Comment_ Examining what the research suggests that children think about inequality ## [Watch these Scottish native bees 🐝](https://beesbeyond.substack.com/p/watch-these-scottish-native-bees) _2026-06-14 · Bees & Beyond · Bees & Beyond 🐝_ A recording from Bees & Beyond's live video [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/202000525/36a38960b4e744b4896c0a0dc21b6148.mp3)