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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
(Score: 1) by Gault.Drakkor on Wednesday January 23 2019, @02:39AM
There is a huge difference to WW1, WW2 vs Napoleon's invasion of Russia. The scale of the events.
WWs had many cities destroyed(e.g. Dresden), far larger areas directly involved in conflict. Much greater levels of destruction. Large amounts of equity was lost/ used. The intensity of the fighting in the WWs meant large amounts of capital was consumed over many years.
After doing some quick google searches in terms of capital expense it looks to me like WW1 cost 2 maybe 3 orders of magnitude more capital.
Who owns most of the capital? The wealthy. So inequity was decreased.