Wealth, power, and influence: Issues and solutions

An inquiry into values, beliefs and actions

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Hello! 👋

My name is Victoria Stuart (she/her/hers) - a mature trans woman 🏳️‍⚧️ , determined to make the world a better place.

This page introduces my independent research on social justice advocacy - with a focus on universal human, social, and environmental rights.

Vision

I envision a world in which all people live in harmony with one another and sustainably within their environment. A world replete with universal human, social and environmental rights and practices - free of disease, poverty, hunger, discrimination, and inequality.

Mission

My mission seeks to address pressing issues and challenges, including misinformation and disinformation, divisive rhetoric, polarizing ideologies, wealth concentration and inequality, unsustainable economic practices, climate change, and ecological destruction.

Approach

My aim (purpose) is to identify and document socially harmful practices, and to identify and advocate solutions to those practices.

In our post-truth age, I seek to curate factual information so that global citizens may seek, find, and understand the issues they face, and to identify ways to address those issues.

My approach is a sandboxed knowledge engine in which material is carefully vetted, curated, and processed (information extraction).

To accomplish this, I am building a nonprofit educational and advocacy organization - Persagen.org - that includes:

an ebook: Wealth, power, and influence: Issues and solutions, readily accessible to all persons;
a textual knowledge base: Pg-Solr, with advanced search capabilities
an ontology: Eureka!, for categorical placement and understanding of key entities: persons, organizations, ...; and
a knowledge graph: Leibniz, which allows discovery and understanding of semantic relationships among entities.

Research areas

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Entities relevant to this project^a
^a Partial list: see the Eureka! ontology for a comprehensive listing. ^b Abbreviations: ISLT: independent~state~legislature~theory; MAGA: Make America Great Again; REITs: real estate investment trusts
Wealth	Power	Influence
• capitalism	• corporations	• advertising
\| • corporations	\| • legal personhood	• advocacy
• economics	\| • monopolies	\| • activism
\| • finance	• government	\| \| • lobbying
\| \| • equity	\| • judiciary	• charity
\| \| \| • private equity	\| \| • U.S. Supreme Court	\| • donor-advised funds (dark money)
\| \| \| \| • REITs^b	\| • legislation	\| • philanthropy
\| • political economy	\| \| • state legislatures	• ideology
• wealth	\| \| \| • ISLT^b	\| • alt-right; right-wing; far-right
\| • billionaires	• politics	\| • authoritarianism; totalitarianism
\| • meritocracy	\| • law	\| • capitalism
\| • oligarchy	\| • political corruption	\| • Christian right; Catholicism
\| • plutocracy	\| \| • regulatory capture	\| • communism
	\| \| • state capture	\| • conservatism; social conservatism
		\| • democracy; social democracy
		\| • eco-socialism
		\| • environmentalism
		\| • extremism, violent extremism
		\| • fascism
		\| • feminism
		\| • fundamentalism
		\| • imperialism
		\| • Islamophobia
		\| • liberalism
		\| • libertarianism
		\| • militarism
		\| • nationalism
		\| • Nazism; neo-Nazism
		\| • neocolonialism
		\| • neoliberalism
		\| • pacificism
		\| • populism
		\| • post-truth
		\| • socialism; eco-socialism
		\| • theocracy (dominion theocracy)
		\| • totalitarianism
		\| • Trumpism (MAGA)^b
		\| • white nationalism, supremacism
		\| • xenophobia
		• majority-minority relations
		• mass media

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Entities relevant to this project^a
^a Partial list: see the Eureka! ontology for a comprehensive listing. ^b Abbreviations: anti-DEI: anti-diversity, equity, & inclusion; anti-SOGI: anti-sexual orientation & gender identity; GOP: Grand Old Party (U.S. Republican Party); MAGA: Make America Great Again; REITs: real estate investment trusts
Economic / Environmental ... issues	Social issues	Solutions
Economic	• addiction	• academia
• capitalism	\| • gambling	\| • academic scholarship
\| • corporations	\| \| • sports gambling	\| • higher education
\| \| • legal personhood	• apathy	\| • peer review
• finance	\| • post-truth	\| • social philosophy
\| • private equity	• belief	\| \| • critical theory
\| \| • REITs^b	\| • dogma	• accountability
• wealth	• censorship	\| • open government
\| • distribution of wealth	\| • book bans	\| • trust
\| \| • poverty	\| • drag bans	\| \| • trust networks
\| \| \| • child poverty	• civil rights \& liberties	\| • whistleblowing
\| \| \| • homelessness	\| • social rights	• dialogue
\| \| \| • hunger	\| • gender identity	\| • common ground
\| \| • wealth concentration	\| • self-determination	• economy
\| \| • wealth inequality	\| • self-expression	\| • labor
Environmental	\| • 2SLGBTQIA+ rights	\| \| • employment
• ecological destruction	• discrimination	\| \| \| • labor movement
\| • desertification	\| • anti-2SLGBTQIA+	\| \| \| \| • trade unions
\| • pollution	\| • Islamophobia	\| \| \| • strikes
\| \| • endocrine disruptors	\| • xenophobia	• education
\| \| • forever chemicals	• education	\| • learning
\| \| • plastics	\| • anti-critical race theory	\| \| • applied learning
\| \| \| • microplastics	\| • anti-SOGI^b	\| \| \| • active learning
• environmental health	\| • erosion of public education	\| \| \| • authentic learning
\| • anthropogenic climate change	\| \| • charter schools (vouchers)	\| \| • critical thinking
\| • global warming	• extremism	• factual knowledge
\| • extreme weather	\| • alt-right	\| \| • curation
Governmental / Geopolitical	\| • far-right	\| \| • evidence-based medicine
• government	\| • Islamophobia	\| \| • public archives
\| • authoritarianism	\| • violent extremism	\| \| • trust networks
\| • democracy	\| • xenophobia	• nudge theory
\| \| • democratic backsliding	• inequality (social; wealth)	\| • etiquette
\| • oligarchy	\| • social inequality	\| • positive reinforcement
\| • theocracy	\| \| • discrimination	• pacificism
Ideological	\| \| • economic inequality	• protest
• ideologies	\| \| \| • affordable housing	\| • civil disobedience
\| • political ideologies	\| \| \| • food security	\| \| • rent strikes
\| \| • conservatism	\| \| • oligarchy	• socialism
\| \| \| • anti-affirmative action	\| \| • plutocracy	\| • eco-socialism
\| \| \| • anti-DEI^b	• misogyny	\| • social democracy
\| \| \| • Christian right	\| • anti-abortion movement	\| \| • welfare state
\| \| \| \| • Catholicism	\| • anti-feminism	\| \| \| • taxation \& redistribution
\| \| \| \| • conscientious objection	\| • incels	\| \| \| \| • wealth tax
\| \| • social conservatism	\| • transphobia
\| \| \| • parental rights movement	• polarization
\| \| • totalitarianism	\| • discrimination
\| \| \| • fascism	\| \| • culture wars
Technological	\| \| • wedge tactics
• artificial intelligence	\| \| \| • weaponization of language
\| • synthetic media	• propaganda
\| \| • deepfakes	\| • advertising
• information fatigue	\| • deception
• privacy	\| \| • disinformation
\| • mass surveillance	\| \| \| • conspiracy theories
\| \| • data brokering	\| \| \| • fake news
	\| \| • misinformation
	\| • denialism
	\| \| • election denial
	\| \| • climate change denial
	\| • greenwashing, sportswashing
	• pseudoscience
	\| • climate change denial
	\| • intelligent design
	\| • QAnon
	\| • GOP^b / Trumpism
	• social media
	\| • populism
	\| \| • influencers
	\| • deception
	\| \| • disinformation
	\| \| \| • conspiracy theories
	\| \| \| • fake news
	\| \| • misinformation
	• structural violence
	\| \| • systemic racism
	• women’s rights
	\| • feminism
	\| • reproductive rights

Solutions

Beyond the scope of this landing page, I document potential solutions to societal challenges. Please see the "Solutions" section (Part V) in the table of contents in my Wealth, Power and Influence: Issues and solutions" ebook.

Please donate 🙏

Please donate to support this work and our shared values and outcomes

Mentioned in my biographical profile, I am fully dedicating to addressing societal challenges - largely a solo effort.

I have faced profound age-related discrimination in my search for employment.

Your support enables me to work on this project (research and advocacy), and develop and advance this nonprofit organization, Persagen.org.

Land acknowledgement

I acknowledge with gratitude that I live and work on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples - the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

Across Canada, we operate on the unceded, stolen and treatied traditional territories of hundreds of diverse Indigenous nations, which include Two-Spirit and LGBTQIA+ Indigenous communities. If you are unsure on whose lands you are currently working on and living on, please refer to Native Land Digital to learn more.

Lastly, as an ally inform yourself on the historical trauma - e.g. the Canadian Indian residential school system and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (Wikipedia) | Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (Government of Canada)), treaty violations, colonialism - and persistent institutional (systemic) racism and structural violence perpetuated upon Indigenous peoples.

Kathleen DuVal's excellent 2024 book Native Nations: A Millennium in North America provides a scholarly (U.S.-centric) overview of Native American civilizations and societies pre- and post-European colonialization.