Richest 0.001% Now Own Three Times More Wealth Than Poorest Half of Humanity Combined

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• orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Cool. Nobody doing shit about it.

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  • some_designer_dude@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Not until their Internet is offline. Then shit’ll get real. Or maybe not even then.

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    • ThunderQueen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Im still hoping people will learn to use the internet as a tool for organizing. Probably wont happen on mainstream socials though

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    • bizzle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Watch out, I learned that there are some guy here that are VERY defensive about their grass allergies.

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  • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    .001% is doing a lot!

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• flandish@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So name them. Stop referring to numbers so small we use them to “scare” people.

  NAME. THESE. CAPITALIST. MONSTERS.

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  • AntiBullyRanger@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They’ve been named.
    The entire planet full of homo sapiens are too illiterate to do anything about banks.

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• circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I rememeber when “the 1%” was a thing. It wasn’t that long ago.

  And no one really cared. The rich just do want they want and entire countries just spend and spend and pretend like a Balenciaga T-shirt that took them 100 hours of labor to afford is worth mountains of systematic injustices.

  I’m so tired of this timeline.

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  • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The issue with “the top 1%” term is that most people can name 100+ people, so it feels as though being in that group is attainable.

    Especially when you realise that in the US, there would be ~3.3m 1%’ers.

    The reality is that we should be focusing on the top 1% of the top 1% of the top 1% (~330 US individuals); the top 0.0001% - if you will.

    They hold outsized political and economic power; you are not part of that group, you will never be part of that group, and they can/will squeeze you for every penny they can.

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  • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Lots of people cared.

    The 1% didn’t.

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• Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This must be the A+++++ economy Trump was talking about.

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• chosensilence@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  countries riot and rebel over less

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  • AntiBullyRanger@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Whichs?

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• DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Imagine all this money funneling into AI when they couldve funneled it into you know humanity instead of for profit. Almost like a lesson of fear is needed instead of taxes now.

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• Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Now do 0.000001%!

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  • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    How about every year, the richest person gets beheaded.

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    • tanisnikana@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Change it to “hourly” and I’m on board. Musk he’s chopped immediately, and Bezos suddenly has fifty-nine minutes and fifty-seven seconds to splash his entire net worth on the public.

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• ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Taxing the rich is the same as going where the money is. Why get blood from a stone when there are a few sacrificial blue blooded lambs that can provide?

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  • AntiBullyRanger@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    came🧵 to post ☝️:
    The sign holder fails to comprehend the problem.

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• nonentity@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

  Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

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• pdxfed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Sounds like a good chance to optimize capitalism to make sure they get the other 49% as well!

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• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t doubt it.

  But how does one measure this exactly?

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  • AntiBullyRanger@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    GDP and debt calculations.

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