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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhere have all the nuts gone?
26 People Have As Much Wealth As Half World Population
Capitalist greed has gotten out of control. The rich continue to get even richer, while the poorest half of the world population gets even poorer. That cannot be sustained.
Here's how Robert Reich (pictured) describes the problem:
http://robertreich.org/post/182220288505
The annual confab of the captains of global industry, finance, and wealth is underway in Davos, Switzerland at the World Economic Forum.
Meanwhile, Oxfam reports that the wealth of the 2,200 billionaires across the globe increased by $900 billion last year or $2.5 billion a day. Their 12 percent increase in wealth contrasts with a drop of 11 percent in the wealth of the bottom half of the people of the world. In fact, the worlds 26 richest billionaires now own as much as the 3.8 billion who comprise the bottom half of the planets population.
If Davoss attendees ignore all this, and blame the rise of right-wing populism around the globe on racism fueled by immigrants from the Middle East and from Central America, theyre deluding themselves.
The real source of the rise of repressive authoritarianism, nativism, and xenophobia in the United States as well as Italy, Spain, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Denmark, Bulgaria, Greece, France, and Britain is a pervasive sense that elites are rigging the world economy for themselves. And, guess what? They are.
Message to Davos Man (and Women): Either commit to pushing for broader prosperity and democracy, or watch as trade wars, capital controls, and isolationism erode global prosperity (including yours) and global peace.
http://jobsanger.blogspot.com/2019/01/26-people-have-as-much-wealth-as-half.html
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Where have all the nuts gone? (Original Post)
kpete
Jan 2019
OP
The Revolution against the wealthiest is building as it always has throughout history.
democratisphere
Jan 2019
#1
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)1. The Revolution against the wealthiest is building as it always has throughout history.
Smackdown2019
(1,183 posts)2. Trump administration
Trump administration is were they went
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)3. Trump has accelerated the process, but
this has been going on (getting perpetually worse) for decades.
Lots of guilty parties.
Many of whom will still be players in this game after Trump is gone.