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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 01:21 AM

ND-Dem (4,571 posts)

Oxfam: 80 people control more wealth than 3.5 billion; global top 1% more than the 99%

Global wealth is becoming increasing concentrated among a small wealthy elite.
Data from Credit Suisse shows that since 2010, the richest 1% of adults in the
world have been increasing their share of total global wealth. Figure 1 shows that
2010 marks an inflection point in the share of global wealth going to this group.

In 2014, the richest 1% of people in the world owned 48% of global wealth,
leaving just 52% to be shared between the other 99% of adults on the planet.1

Almost all of that 52% is owned by those included in the richest 20%, leaving just
5.5% for the remaining 80% of people in the world.

If this trend continues of an increasing wealth share to the richest, the top 1% will have more wealth than the remaining 99% of people in just two years, as shown on Figure 2, with the wealth share of the top 1% exceeding 50% by 2016...

The wealth of these 80 individuals is now the same as that owned by the bottom
50% of the global population, such that 3.5 billion people share between them the
same amount of wealth as that of these extremely wealthy 80 people.

http://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/file_attachments/ib-wealth-having-all-wanting-more-190115-en.pdf

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Oxfam: 80 people control more wealth than 3.5 billion; global top 1% more than the 99% (Original post)	ND-Dem	Feb 2015	OP
Message auto-removed	Name removed	Feb 2015	#1
There is no "moral right" to take more than your due.	Bonobo	Feb 2015	#2
the 'strong' have a different idea of what they are due than the 'weak'.	ND-Dem	Feb 2015	#5
I agree with your premise but am not so sure "THAT is an invention of the modern age" as applied	pampango	Feb 2015	#8
You are right of course.	Bonobo	Feb 2015	#9
This will not end well	newfie11	Feb 2015	#3
I hope to god it will end.	ND-Dem	Feb 2015	#4
We're not going to ''FIX'' this by dicking around with these wankers.	DeSwiss	Feb 2015	#6
The 1% has more because they are working hard. The 99% are hardly working.	Enthusiast	Feb 2015	#7
lol. i don't think people are going to buy that too much longer. at least, not the bottom 90%.	ND-Dem	Feb 2015	#10
But why isn't this on the top of EVERY news show EVERY DAY?????	a kennedy	Feb 2015	#11
why would it be on the news? who owns the news? 'they' do. the only way it gets	ND-Dem	Feb 2015	#12
its lie	your bunny wrote	Feb 2015	#13
i think the poster was being sarcastic	ND-Dem	Feb 2015	#17
ah , really .	your bunny wrote	Feb 2015	#18
Wonder if the names of these 80 individuals is available?	jwirr	Feb 2015	#14
Meet The 80 People Who Are As Rich As Half The World	ND-Dem	Feb 2015	#15
Thank you. Interesting and not all from the USA.	jwirr	Feb 2015	#16
kick	woo me with science	Feb 2015	#19
Pure theft	Ramses	Feb 2015	#20
+1000000 Murderous greed.	woo me with science	Feb 2015	#21

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 03:58 AM

Bonobo (29,257 posts)

2. There is no "moral right" to take more than your due.

THAT is an invention of the modern age.

Throughout history, such matters were dealt with differently.

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 05:01 AM

ND-Dem (4,571 posts)

5. the 'strong' have a different idea of what they are due than the 'weak'.

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 08:34 AM

pampango (24,690 posts)

8. I agree with your premise but am not so sure "THAT is an invention of the modern age" as applied

to the strong taking more than their due, is accurate. Kings, emperors and others have taken have exercised a 'moral right' to take more than their share.

Some here argue that it is still acceptable, not so much that the financially rich have that right, but that the militarily 'rich' have more rights than the militarily 'poor'.

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 08:52 AM

Bonobo (29,257 posts)

9. You are right of course.

What I meant to say and should have said is that it is only fairly recently that the upper class had such overwhelming military power that they could maintain this inequity.

For the longest time, 100 people with axe handles and torches could have gotten a lot done. I think you know what I mean. Look at the Shay's Rebellion for example. Decide that the taxes are unfair, a mob takes some clubs and torches and they burn the tax records and strong arm the magistrate. Not possible now.

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 04:58 AM

newfie11 (8,159 posts)

3. This will not end well

And it will end.

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 05:00 AM

ND-Dem (4,571 posts)

4. I hope to god it will end.

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 05:48 AM

DeSwiss (27,137 posts)

6. We're not going to ''FIX'' this by dicking around with these wankers.

This modernized system of feudalism must go!

No one owns shit!

Least of all these poor excuses for human-DNA repositories, called 1%ers.

How the hell can we elect our way out of this shit in a system they own and control?

Not possible.

- The only thing you have to fear is fear itself.

K&R

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 07:37 AM

Enthusiast (50,983 posts)

7. The 1% has more because they are working hard. The 99% are hardly working.

Very simple.

Don't start with the politics of envy.

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 12:52 PM

ND-Dem (4,571 posts)

10. lol. i don't think people are going to buy that too much longer. at least, not the bottom 90%.

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 01:32 PM

a kennedy (25,334 posts)

11. But why isn't this on the top of EVERY news show EVERY DAY?????

Why isn't this being talked about over and over until it sinks in that they ARE OUT TO GET US, or at least get all of our money.

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 01:34 PM

ND-Dem (4,571 posts)

12. why would it be on the news? who owns the news? 'they' do. the only way it gets

talked about on the news is if one faction is fighting another. once one wins, 'they' roll up the sideshow again.

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 01:49 PM

your bunny wrote (9 posts)

13. its lie

just 1% is very cunning
and 99% isnt cunning .

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 02:21 PM

ND-Dem (4,571 posts)

17. i think the poster was being sarcastic

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 02:36 PM

your bunny wrote (9 posts)

18. ah , really .

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 01:52 PM

jwirr (39,215 posts)

14. Wonder if the names of these 80 individuals is available?

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 02:03 PM

ND-Dem (4,571 posts)

15. Meet The 80 People Who Are As Rich As Half The World

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016111960

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 02:18 PM

jwirr (39,215 posts)

16. Thank you. Interesting and not all from the USA.

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 08:46 PM

woo me with science (32,139 posts)

19. kick

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 08:54 PM

Ramses (721 posts)

20. Pure theft

greed is arguably the worst human attribute

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Sat Feb 21, 2015, 05:11 AM

woo me with science (32,139 posts)

21. +1000000 Murderous greed.

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