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- politics@lemmy.world
cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/57305272
Total billionaire wealth in the EU reached €2.4 trillion by late November, exceeding Italy’s entire GDP of €2.2 trillion and approaching France’s €2.9 trillion economy, a new Oxfam report found.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20260118190308/https://euobserver.com/health-and-society/ara3abf5ee
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Poor people: “Well I guess there’s only one solution really.” Gestures to unpaid taxes and clears throat.
Billionaires: “Yes…” Looks at AI and fully automated societies before clutching pocketbook closer. “One final solution.”
I don’t think that, the difference that these guys and not rich anymore they are filthy rich. If someone is smarter than me they should deserve to be richer than me. But have hundreds of billions and etc. this is just to much.
Agree. I’d even go as far to say, they can get filthy rich, but not at an expense of people getting low quality product, low quality of life, and in the process messing up the environment too, but usually, when everything is said and done, that’s how they get ultra rich.
Liberty until it infringes on the liberty of others
He also assumed automation would be helpful for the working class because he thought it would mean we wouldn’t have to work to survive. I don’t think he saw billionaires just breeding the working class for wars or organ harvesting and completely replacing their labor with robots. I guess he didn’t really think about how low they will always stoop.
Now lets do another massively funded research project to figure out the next step a lot of people already know… LOBBYING!!
Rich people use Lobbying groups to manipulate countries and ruin the sovereignty of the nation, have done so since Lobbying groups were added to Capitilism…
Are we waiting to hear it from the news to believe it?
Who would be surprised that concentrating most resources in a few is the opposite of the common good…
No shit, Sherlock ©
Waiting for another news. Like water is wet and education should function well
Capitalism is a threat to democracy.
But thanks for getting on nearly the same page, Oxfam.
Most -ism’s are the problem, every hericarical civilization throughout all of sapien time has collapsed, destroyed the local enviorment etc. Inequality is the issue.
That’s like saying “He didn’t die from getting his head blown off he died because his blood circulation was interrupted for too long”.
Capitalism leads directly to inequality.
True but inequality wasn’t invented by or during capitalism, it existed in every heirarchy
I believe Plato pointed this out in The Republic.
He thought the richest citizen needed to have no more then 5x the wealth of the poorest citizen or you would inevitably slide into oligarchy.
How strange that some Texas university was recently banning a professor from teaching Plato to students because it had too much “equality” in it.
plato sounded DEI to them.
We crossed that threshold so long ago that you can make 5x the poverty level and still not be able to afford a house.
Well 5x0 is 0 so yeah. This sounds like a good system though. Desperate for that Billion clout? Make sure everyone else has 200mil first.
0 isn’t real, it is a social construct created by big math.
You add by 0 and its still the same… what?
You subtract by 0 and its still the same… why?
You multiply by 0 and you BECOME 0, the heck?
You divide by 0 and its… big not even a number just a concept… sure buddy!
No shit bro for real?
We’ve been pointing this out ever since the concept of currency became a thing, but I’m sure we will learn our lesson this time and stop doing it. This can’t just be how it will always be until we drive ourselves to extinction stuck on this miserable rock, Right?
We’ve been pointing this out ever since the concept of currency became a thing, but I’m sure we will learn our lesson this time and stop doing it.
I think that this became an issue even before currency. It happened as soon as agriculture allowed for accumulation of resources, power, and wealth. I sometimes think that that was really the point when humanity took the wrong turn.
“I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in human evolution. We became too self-aware; nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself."
Structural issues make egalitarian economic systems difficult. Wealth and social influence compound once another in a virtuous cycle. Wealth has a strong hereditary bias, even in socialist economic models. And violence is historically a powerful tool for accruing wealth. Very difficult to establish universal deterrence against violence.
This isn’t a question of people being smart or stupid. It’s an elaborate balancing act that becomes exponentially more difficult as population size expands.
As a very wise Irishman once so eloquently said it: “People. What a bunch’a bastards.”
Hey, the rock is fine, we’ve made society a miserable place. The pack is calling me…
Not a very good actor, but seems like a good person and he’s funny. He worked hard to be where he is so sure “the rock” is fine.
i think some german said this 100 years ago already
Rich people are also delicious with BBQ sauce.
