World’s five richest men double their money as poorest get poorer
World’s five richest men double their money as poorest get poorer
Oxfam predicts first trillionaire within a decade, with gap between rich and poor likely to increase
How many more years of these news stories do I have to read before we actually do something about this?
I'm so fucking sick of this happening constantly.
The sad thing is we’ll keep reading stories like this until we die. I can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel and I’m tired of being that guy talking about this issue.
we die
Or they do. This level of wealth inequality is a new phenomenon, and it is already showing how great it goes, with fascism and other fringe ideologies on the rise.
The chance that Trump or a similar idiot being elected and turning dictator is a possibility in the US is a direct consequence of these fuckwits gutting society itself. It is very well possible that these guys will either become sock puppets of a Trump-like figure, and keep some of their wealth in exchange for losing all of their power, or commit grisly murder-suicides of their whole family in droves like in Russia.
They either don't see or don't care that they are cutting down the branch that they (and everyone else) are sitting on.
We have to stop voting for rich or wanna-be-rich business people. It's the only way. Combined votes for the best of the worst to eliminate the tyrants, then vote out the wealth focused. Can't believe that's the situation we are in.
Voting alone will not get us out of this situation. Maybe implementing rank choice of voting might do it. I just don't see good solutions because the politicians were all about sold anyway it doesn't matter which one gets voted in, voters never get the final say.
Forever. If people haven't figured it out by now, they never will.
The economy is a fucking joke.
always has been
And yet the majority of Trump voters will cite it as the reason they're voting for him.
People are unredeemingly stupid.
It's not irrational to depend on the economy (as defined by news media) because a good economy does mean a lot of good things for even the lowest level workers. The problem is a good economy means the rich get richer and a bad economy means poor people lose their jobs. There is no consequence for the rich except maybe having to reorganize their investments and lose a marginal amount of their wealth. Whereas in comparison poor people can end up on the streets.
It's put very simply here:
The world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes to $869bn (£681.5bn) since 2020, while the world’s poorest 60% – almost 5 billion people – have lost money.
... the world’s billionaires were $3.3tn (£2.6tn) richer than in 2020, and their wealth had grown three times faster than the rate of inflation.
Divided you beg - the Republican way. United you bargain - the Democrats way. Keep voting Republican and keep making the rich richer.
It will trickle down any moment now. Any moment.
Something d-o-o economics. Voo-doo economics.
Frye.. Frye.. Frye..
This is such a good visualization of big numbers and big bank accounts.
It's also a good way to really see the bull shit argument that it's unfair to tax the wealthy at a higher rate. Even if they get taxed at 90% (which I don't think will happen in my lifetime) they still will have enough money for them and their decedents to live a lavish lifestyle. And that extra money could really make America into the country that it pretends to be.
This is from 2021 so remember that the biggest boxes there need to be twice as big now. Your box, however, is the same size or smaller.
That makes me infurious rex.
And just think that the article said this decade we're expecting to have our first trillionaire. That'd be a hell of a lot more scrolling.
People think for some reason working themselves to death will move them upwards. Fuck this stupid system.
What about those that are being forcefully coerced into doing so? I’m broke, and I’ll be working until the day I die, but it sure as hell isn’t because I want to.
That is understandable. I meant mostly people who say you can grind your way out of poverty through hardwork. Like work-life balance isn't important.
I’m sure electing a billionaire will fix things right up in the US.
No actual billionaires are in the election.
How about we stop calling it their fucking money. It's inconceivable that someone can look at what has got to be at least 50% of all wealth ever made by humankind and say, "this is mine and just mine". That isn't what sane rational people think
Having that amount of money makes you lose all rational thinking my dude.
Elon Musk, Bernard Arnault, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison and Mark Zuckerberg
Coincidentally, those same 5 are 2024's "who's who of sociopathic shitheads", a title they've earned with lifetimes of dedication to the craft
Kill them.
fuck capitalism
Wait Musk is still such a strong first place? I thought with twitter bombing, people starting to dislike Tesla, general weird behavior, he was losing quite a bit? I'm probably way out of touch but isn't someone catching uo to him?
Tesla shares constitute something like 70% of Elon's total fortune. Twitter is overall not that relevant for his big picture wealth, and weird behavior even less so.
At the moment Tesla's stock price is in decline because of competition from China and the overall EV market not growing as fast, so Bezos or somebody else could indeed overtake Musk in the near term. But this could easily change again next month, the stock market is fickle.
Rich assets grow exponentially. They will exceed government budgets if they haven't yet. Then, they will have far bigger budget than governments.
Maybe the world will all become North Korea.
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You spelled working wrong.
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You guys ready to eat em yet?
space billionaires. well defined, much more fun.
Yes, but I wouldn't eat a rich person. All the chemicals and drugs in the meat. Gross. We need to just cull the rich.
Eat the rich
Nothing new nowadays.
Well, when the TSHTF they’ll die just like the rest of us trapped on the globe, cooked and starving thanks to the climate.
Ain't we got fun?