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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday October 29 2017, @08:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the goose-and-the-golden-egg dept.

Wealth inequality stands at its highest since the turn of the 20th century - the so-called 'Gilded Age' - as the proportion of capital held by the world's 1,542 dollar billionaires swells yet higher. The report, undertaken by Swiss banking giant UBS and UK accounting company PwC, discusses the roles technology and globalization play in the status quo, and appears two weeks after the IMF recommended that the rich should pay more tax to address the enormous disparity.


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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by bzipitidoo on Sunday October 29 2017, @11:55AM (2 children)

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Sunday October 29 2017, @11:55AM (#589008) Journal

    You sure are posting lots in this discussion. So far, 12 comments and 4 of them are yours.

    Why are you focusing on just one or two people out of the thousands who made Gilded Age 2.0 happen? Your belief in the power of the US Presidency is blinding you. Like, there's the Supreme Court justices who ruled against the people in Citizens United, and, you know, Congress. And those are just the government officials and politicians. What about all those Wall Street financiers, lobbyists, the military industrial complex, the prison industrial complex, the mainstream media, and Big Oil?

    Fnord!

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday October 29 2017, @12:12PM (1 child)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday October 29 2017, @12:12PM (#589012) Homepage Journal

    It interests me and it's exceedingly likely to have a whole lot of outright idiotic things said that need correcting. Plus it's morning coffee time and there's nothing else going on.

    Why focus on Presidents? Because they're the loudest voices preaching helping the people while fucking them in the ass. I have nothing against people looking out for their own interests but I despise hypocrites.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 30 2017, @03:33PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 30 2017, @03:33PM (#589473)

      Toss your hypocritical ignorant self out an airlock then. Save us from your tiresome ass kissing rants.