return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 5 months agoThe world will have its first trillionaire within a decade, but poverty won't be eradicated for another 229 years, report findswww.cnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up1377arrow-down110
arrow-up1367arrow-down1external-linkThe world will have its first trillionaire within a decade, but poverty won't be eradicated for another 229 years, report findswww.cnbc.comreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 5 months agomessage-square72fedilink
minus-squareskeezix@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up24arrow-down1·5 months agoThat’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.
minus-squarecreamed_eels@toast.ooolinkfedilinkarrow-up7·5 months ago“We can’t not have poverty, it’s just not biblical” -paraphrasing this one idiot nationalist christian whose slimy name escapes me atm
minus-squareTokenBoomer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoI sea what you did there, and I love it.
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.