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posted by takyon on Tuesday January 22 2019, @10:32AM   Printer-friendly
from the self-made-trillionaire dept.

Global wealth inequality widened last year as billionaires increased their fortunes by $2.5 billion per day, anti-poverty campaigner Oxfam said in a new report.

While the poorest half of humanity saw their wealth dwindle by 11%, billionaires' riches increased by 12%. The mega-wealthy have also become a more concentrated bunch. Last year, the top 26 wealthiest people owned $1.4 trillion, or as much as the 3.8 billion poorest people. The year before, it was the top 43 people.

[...] To address many of these ills, Oxfam advocated raising taxes. It estimated that a 1% wealth tax would be enough to educate 262 million out of school children and to save 3.3 million lives. As of 2015 returns, Oxfam says that only four cents in every tax dollar collected globally came from tariffs on wealth, such as inheritance or property. The report also claims that the rich are hiding $7.6 trillion in offshore accounts

Previously: Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth


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  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 22 2019, @04:32PM (13 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday January 22 2019, @04:32PM (#790120) Journal

    Did a black man steal your girlfriend in college or something? (Because if so, serves ya right...)

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  • (Score: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 22 2019, @04:54PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 22 2019, @04:54PM (#790133)

    >> Did a black man steal ...

    Way to continue propagating negative racial stereotypes.

    thatsracist.gif

    • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 22 2019, @05:21PM (2 children)

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday January 22 2019, @05:21PM (#790144) Journal

      Hurr hurr hurr...shut up. No it's not. What it is is an only half-joking attempt to figure ou where this guy's constant anti-black "scientific" racism comes from. I'm trying to imagine how his mind works and just not coming up with anything coherent aside from a trauma model.

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      • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 23 2019, @04:55AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 23 2019, @04:55AM (#790466)

        Fuck off, Azuma. You're a notorious SJW hyper-troll on here and you're not fooling anyone. Facts don't care about your feelings. Go fuck yourself.

        • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday January 23 2019, @07:23AM

          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday January 23 2019, @07:23AM (#790498) Journal

          Wrong on two counts, "SJW" and "troll" of any description. We are in a sad state when someone who has the courage and moral fortitude to stand up to the rising tide of authoritarian right-wing batshit sludge that's slowly dissolving this place is called "troll." You, good sir, and I am *certain* you are a "sir," can go fuck YOURself. If you can get ahold of that microscopic excuse for genitalia, I mean.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by khallow on Tuesday January 22 2019, @05:27PM (8 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 22 2019, @05:27PM (#790148) Journal
    That's an interesting concept - preemptive karma. You're going to be good/bad in the future, so let's punish you now.
    • (Score: 0, Troll) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 22 2019, @05:48PM (7 children)

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday January 22 2019, @05:48PM (#790164) Journal

      Maybe this needs some further explanation here: it's fairly obvious the guy's *always* been a racist, but this constant posting, in every goddamn thread, about the exact same thing, smacks of the zeal of the newly-converted. In other words, this guy is basically the equivalent of someone who always thoughtlessly voted Republican, then one day lost his job and went completely batshit Dominionist insane.

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      • (Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 22 2019, @07:20PM (6 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 22 2019, @07:20PM (#790224)

        Khallow has a long slow process of discovery ahead. I guess it is just so easy for hints of racism to slide past, explained away by "they're just bringing up uncomfortable topics stop being so sensitive!" VLM, Jmorris, and Ethanol Fueled are the most clearly racist users around here. EF might get a pass by being just a massively stupid troll, but I doubt someone could pull that off for years without actually being racist. Runaway1956 is a closeted racist. Those are the only ones I have clear memories of racist postings but there are quite a few others that probably are as well.

        So khallow, ready to realize that its only been a short time since the Civil Rights Movement when it was ridiculously obvious how racist parts of the US are? Things have gotten better but yes, there really truly 100% actually are a lot of racists still hanging around.

        • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by khallow on Tuesday January 22 2019, @07:54PM (5 children)

          by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 22 2019, @07:54PM (#790258) Journal
          And yet, you say not one word about why I should care that there are racist posters on SN. Bigotry doesn't become better because there's a classification of it into approved and disapproved bigotry.
          • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 23 2019, @01:52AM (4 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 23 2019, @01:52AM (#790408)

            And yet, you say not one word about why I should care that there are racist posters on SN.

            Well, I can't speak for the original AC but I don't want them on SN because (a) they are tedious and damned annoying and (b) I don't want people to think I am one of them (guilt by association).

            Bigotry doesn't become better because there's a classification of it into approved and disapproved bigotry.

            True, as far as that goes.

            • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday January 23 2019, @03:13AM (3 children)

              by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday January 23 2019, @03:13AM (#790438) Journal

              and (b) I don't want people to think I am one of them (guilt by association).

              How does "guilt by association" work?

              It sounds to me (yes, I'm WAGging here), like you are claiming that if someone advocates a loathsome idea on a forum that has your name in it somewhere that somehow you risk being associated with that. Would it be something like an HR grunt typing in "John Doe" into their Google search, seeing some SN article on wealth inequality, and then reading a scary VLM screed elsewhere on the web page as a John Doe post, then vetoing your employment due to scary racist post that you had nothing to do with?

              I suppose, if that were true, this is my take [xkcd.com] on that, especially given that we're giving pseudonyms anyway.

              • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday January 23 2019, @07:00AM (2 children)

                by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday January 23 2019, @07:00AM (#790490) Journal

                Guilt by association: You fucking racist, khallow! Did you repudiate Ethanol_filleted? No? Racist. Did you renounce VLM's call to round up and exterminate all left-handed Americans? No? Racist! And did you stick a red-hot poker up jmorris's ass, for saying all the bigoted and racist things he has said, including suggesting that some races are more racier than others? No? You are a racist, khallow. Racist by association, Racist by ommission, Racist by lack of repudiation of racism! And if I did not personally know that you are African-American, I might think you are racist by white privilege. So, there, you racist bastard.

                • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday January 23 2019, @07:39AM (1 child)

                  by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday January 23 2019, @07:39AM (#790508) Journal
                  Thank you. That was pretty definitive. But in my defense, I'll have to say that I still don't give a shit. My view on this? Tolerate the intolerance. Don't tolerate the endless string of felonies.