The world will have its first trillionaire within a decade, but poverty won't be eradicated for another 229 years, report finds
The world will have its first trillionaire within a decade, but poverty won't be eradicated for another 229 years, report finds
In the last three years, the population of the super wealthy has skyrocketed in the U.S. and around the world.
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The existence of a trillionaire nearly guarantees that poverty is never going anywhere
That’s what people don’t seem to get: you can’t have extreme rich without having extreme poor. That’s a baked-in side effect of our current strain of capitalism.
“We can’t not have poverty, it’s just not biblical”
-paraphrasing this one idiot nationalist christian whose slimy name escapes me atm
I sea what you did there, and I love it.
We need to build a parallel economy the rich are banned from.
It's really hard to do when they have politicians in their pocket
No it isn't. There's nothing stopping us from, for example, growing our own crops and trading them to each other. And we can do that whether or not it's legal.
Point in fact, triggering them into outlawing something so harmless would kind of be the point. Then it would force a confrontation they would lose because so many people would be negatively affected -- especially the right wing which already does this in their rural communities.
🤔 Come to think of it, it might be one of the better ways to solve the problem than any other idea anyone has come up with...
Yes, I will start subsisting on my own crops that I grow in a rented 1 bed apartment that I pay £1500 a month for
You don’t have to grow your own crops. You could buy vegetables from a neighbor with a garden, or offer a service. The point is more about subverting the multinational conglomerate machines that drive our current economy
You actually do likely have enough space to have a vertical aeroponic garden, or at least a window box.
We need to change this reality to that same end
"Sounds like that economy needs.... freedom" -America
It's the only way we'd be able to organize and fight a revolution to get them off of our backs though.
Plus it can be decentralized so that they can't take it down by force.
Like a cartel?