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Just before the annual gathering of the global elites last January (at the Swiss mountain resort of Davos), the anti-poverty charity Oxfam released an eye-opening report that showed the world’s 85 richest billionaires hold as much wealth as 3.5 billion of humanity’s poorest half. That shocking statistic quickly went globally viral. Now there's a new report.
Last week the 72-year-old organization launched a new campaign called "Even It Up" with a new 136-page report showing that the combined wealth of the world’s top 85 multi-billionaires is increasing at the rate of a half million dollars a minute.
The reports says: “Oxfam’s decades of experience in the world’s poorest communities have taught us that poverty and inequality are not inevitable or accidental, but the result of deliberate policy choices.”
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deliberate. ya think?
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What I find interesting about last night is the utter despair and utter joy at all the stuff, while all the time this is going on the people in the report above are making $500,000 a minute.
The REASON I find this interesting is that despite this little war between two factions, both are just menu items for that group, regardless of your winner.
It's as if War of the Worlds came on for real, the Martians are marching through devouring or destroying everything in their path, and everyone just switched off the radio and started hurling curses and insults at their neighbors.
You are 100% right. Who you need to reach out to is your neighbor. Even if they are the horriblest, angriest, meaniest slime of a human (with a few exceptions), they are likely less of a threat than the 1%.
Heck, there's a 99% chance you should both be on the same side. If we don't find common ground none of us will survive.
(And, frankly, there's no reason why that can't start with the undoing of Citizens United. No one wants a corp telling them what to do, do they?)
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