Do We Need Another Rolls-Royce Showroom?
from Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality:
Do We Need Another Rolls-Royce Showroom?
October 19, 2013
A tiny tax on global personal wealth over $1 million could ensure that no child anywhere on the planet has to live in extreme poverty.
By Sam Pizzigati
The folks at Rolls-Royce have just opened a brand-new dealership in the poverty-stricken Philippines.
This nation of nearly 100 million people now hosts 334 deep pockets worth at least $50 million, more than enough, the Rolls-Royce CEO noted earlier this month in Manila, to guarantee a robust market for the ultimate in super luxury.
One stab at that ultimate, the Rolls Ghost model, will retail to Filipinos of means at $602,000 to start. Thats over $600,000 more than the $1,879 personal net worth of the median, or most typical, Filipino adult.
In the Philippines today, says the just-released Global Wealth Report 2013 from the Credit Suisse Research Institute in Switzerland, 88 percent of adults have less than $10,000 to their name. Just 0.9 percent have over $100,000. ...................(more)
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