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... in less than 3 days.
A 'Fundamentally Inhuman' Economy: 26 Billionaires Own as Much as World's 3.8 Billion Poorest People
While the wealth of billionaires increased by $900 billion last year, or $2.5 billion a day, latest Oxfam report on inequality shows "this bonanza has not been felt by the poorest half of the world, which saw its wealth decline by 11 percent."
[link:https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/01/21/fundamentally-inhuman-economy-26-billionaires-own-much-worlds-38-billion-poorest|]
We need to be paying attention to who is benefitting from the shutdown. I'm sure there is plenty of evidence of the billionaire "class" being the ones who gain the most while the rest of us transfer more of what little we have directly into their yacht fuel tanks.
grumpyduck
(6,232 posts)is only a down payment. I posted about this yesterday, but the post quickly got buried in the avalanche of new OPs.
meadowlander
(4,394 posts)John Oliver got a contractor who estimated at least 25 billion to build it and then yearly maintenance costs in the order of 3-4 billion a year.
debsy
(530 posts)They thrive in chaos...
Doodley
(9,088 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)By "Be Best" standards, we should be able to increase that to an even 110% with tax cuts.