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"Governments should heed widespread demands to tax the rich—and match it with a vision to build public goods from healthcare to energy," said the executive director of Oxfam International.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.commondreams.org/news/global-one-percent-wealth


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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

I guess that explains why everyone else is so broke.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah because they're squeezing every last penny despite the fact that they've already got more than they can spend. They should be put in labor camps.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They’d die in a week due to never really doing any actual labor.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago
[–] nonentity 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

You mean humanity? Because we don’t actually live on a planet that has borders and walls for the rich.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'm feeling peckish. Anybody else?

[–] n3m37h 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I just ate, but I can build a mean guillotine

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Perfect for cutting cucumbers… and necks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I could eat the absolute PANTS off some shrimp. or maybe whales? what do whales taste like?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago