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.
    • cecilkorik@lemmy.caEnglish
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      20 days ago

      The stupidity is happening because it benefits rich people to fill the world with stupid people. Stupid, gullible people are the key to their endlessly growing profits and wealth extraction.

      We already know how to solve stupidity. We have always known it. Education has been one of the core pillars of human civilization since antiquity. It wasn’t the first man to discover fire who changed everything, it was the person who discovered how to teach the next generation to control fire at least as well if not better than they originally did.

      Education has not failed us. Education has been sabotaged and dismantled. By rich and powerful people, for their own purposes.

      First we get rid of those rich and powerful people who have set themselves against us, then we rebuild everyone’s education and if we’re lucky, we might get to move on with our civilization eventually. Nobody promised it’s going to be easy. But it is necessary, if we wish the human race to continue, and traditionally we’ve been pretty stubbornly invested in that.

    • LOGIC💣@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      20 days ago

      One reason that people are stupid is because rich people need slave labor, so they set up a system where people don’t learn to think for themselves.

            • dubyakay@lemmy.caEnglish
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              19 days ago

              I was just playing along with their use of language. Irregardless, it doesn’t strike me as Xi would be among billionaires.

              • thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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                18 days ago

                Actually Xi is probably the richest person on earth.

                Why? Because China is the world’s 2.5th biggest economy (2nd only to the US when counting countries, but the EU is richer than China and is often counted), and it’s the biggest dictatorship (for now, since the US is at risk of dictatorship). Being a dictator, he COULD just sell parts of the country and I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t be stopped if he tried. And when something can be sold and thus converted to money, it counts as wealth.

                • dubyakay@lemmy.caEnglish
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                  18 days ago

                  It’s a good thing then that he uses his power to redistribute wealth, alleviating poverty and building infrastructure.