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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 29 2017, @05:18PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 29 2017, @05:18PM (#589125)

    The more I see TMB posting in a discussion, the more confident I can be that reading it is a waste of time.

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday October 30 2017, @04:21AM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday October 30 2017, @04:21AM (#589344) Journal

    Indeeeed. And the best/worst part is that the stupid carrion-molesting dipshit is too much of a terminal Dunning-Kruger case to see this and *shut the fuck up.* It's got to be some kind of cluster B personality disorder or something.

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