About EWDi
Our Mission
We research, educate, and organize to build a broad-based movement that dismantles the social, economic, and environmental dangers posed by excessive wealth.
Our Vision
We seek to create a just and inclusive economic system rooted in shared prosperity, government accountability, and societal well-being.
Our Actions
Organize, network, educate, and empower allies and partners
Change the narrative about excessive wealth
Co-create a more just and equitable tax system
Amplify and augment wealth equity research and policy solutions
EWDi was created in 2022 by Chair of the Board and Founder, Alan S. Davis, to address our growing culture of excessive wealth and reduce the impact of compulsive greed.
We want to live in communities that are safe, healthy, have green spaces, clean air, with homes priced within reach. We want to live in communities with quality, affordable healthcare, childcare, and education.
For the American Dream to be available for average Americans, this extraordinary economic balance must be addressed, gluttonous wealth must be reduced, and runaway billionaires must be held accountable for improving the communities from which they profit.
What is Excessive Wealth Disorder?
We define Excessive Wealth Disorder (EWD) as a societal sickness resulting in the insatiable need to acquire more. EWD affects not only the excessively wealthy, but everyone in our society. EWD poses a massive threat to our planet, our society, and our wellbeing as individuals. We live on a planet with finite resources, yet EWD pushes the people who own corporations toward unfettered growth and unrestricted extraction of natural resources. As Americans with EWD, we are more interested in glorifying billionaires than supporting solutions for the public good. It doesn’t matter how much we have, we always feel that it isn’t enough. The cure for this disorder exists. We must change the American Dream from an individualist fantasy to one that defines success by how well we care for each other.
