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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

 

Since 2015, the richest 1% owns more than the rest of humanity. Eight mega-billionaires are as wealthy as humanity’s 3.6 poorest.

 

“Over the next 20 years, 500 people will hand over $2.1 trillion to their heirs - a sum larger than the GDP of India, a country of 1.3 billion people.”

 

From 1988 - 2011, the incomes of humanity’s poorest 10% increased by less than $3 a year - less than nothing when adjusted for inflation.

 

Over the same period, the incomes of humanity’s richest 1% increased 182 times as much.

 

“A FTSE-100 CEO earns as much in a year as 10,000 people in working in garment factories in Bangladesh. A Dow CEO likely earns as much as 20,000 or 30,000 impoverished third-world workers.

 

Over the last 30 years, income growth of the world’s bottom 50% was zero. The top 1% tripled their income over the same period.

 

“In Vietnam, the country’s richest man earns more in a day than the poorest earns in 10 years.”

 

Super-wealth in the hands of a select few used to make obscene greater amounts is incompatible with peace, equity and justice - what so-called Western civilization abhors, exploiting the many by every means imaginable for greater riches, war-profiteering a favorite way.

 

Mass slaughter and destruction enriches them, unspeakable human misery considered a small price to pay.

 

Here’s the Oxfam infamous 8:

 

Bill Gates: Net worth $75 billion

 

Amancio Ortega: NW $67 billion

 

Warren Buffet: NW $60.8 billion

 

Carlos Slim: NW $50 billion

 

Jeff Bezos: NW $45.2 billion

 

Mark Zuckerberg: NW $44.6 billion

 

Larry Ellison: NW $43.6 billion

 

Michael Bloomberg: NW $40 billion

 

Beyond the infamous 8, the two Koch brothers have a net worth of nearly $80 billion. The world’s billionaire class in total has a staggering net worth of $6.5 trillion.

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