Pretty soon that devine right of kings and thing is going to look laughable by comparison.
Kings were nowhere near this rich, or powerful.
Sounds like an easy problem to solve: seize their assets and enact Pinochet-style methods to make them shut up if they complain too much.
FYI (and I expect to be downvoted because y’all don’t want to hear this), but when an article talks about the “global 1%” it’s probably talking about YOU.
Yes, you. And me. And probably most of the people reading this, who live in the US or another Western country and consider themselves “middle class.” WE are the global 1%.
From https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/9/15/23874111/charity-philanthropy-americans-global-rich :
If you earn $60,000 a year after tax and you don’t have kids, you’re in the richest 1 percent of the world’s population.
Also, if you prefer to measure by wealth instead of income, that’s lower than you think, too. I’m having trouble finding a more recent figure, but as of 2018, the threshold to be considered global 1% in terms of net worth was only $871,320. No, didn’t typo: it really is only hundreds of thousands, not millions or billions.
(The billionaires are more like the 0.01%.)
Yes, you. And me. And probably most of the people reading this, who live in the US or another Western country
Not quite. 1% of global population is ~80 million people. There are about a billion people in the highly developed nations (US, Canada, Western Europe, Japan, South Korea, and some minor others). So the top 8% of the golden billion, if we assume all in the US, the top ~25% of the country.
Middle class people worth 800 grand these days, and earn over 60 grand where you live? Damn.
Upper middle class maybe, sure, but middle class mostly doesn’t exist any more, mostly it’s people scraping by on a mortgage trying to act like they’re still middle class :-(
This is some wild reverse temporarily embarrassed millionaire bullshit right here.
No matter how many times you repeat this responsability shifting nonsense, it won’t ever make the people earning 60k responsible for what billionaires are doing.
Maybe visualising the scale of the numbers being discussed will help you see what a joke your comment is.
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Yes, billionaires are bad, but so are you.
You are just butthurt to find out that you are part of the 1% problem.
Except we’re not and you’re just wrong.
We control our weath. We decided where to spend and where to invest.
We are the baddies.
Ok my investments have all tanked so I guess I’m an insurgent working to tear down the system from within 🤷♂️
This has some hardcore original sin vibes. If the argument is that we are bad people merely for existing in this country regardless of our actions, then the argument is in bad faith and is only intended to tear down people who would otherwise wish to help.
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Oh thank God I’m still not the 1%. Average wage in the US is 45k and I’m not even making that
wheres my superyacht
Only $800k net worth? Who the hell in middle class America has that? If they did, then homeownership would be less of an issue.
Only $800k net worth? Who the hell in middle class America has that?
Homeowners near retirement age, basically. Much of that net worth would be their home value, and the rest would be in their 401k/IRA.
(Keep in mind that in order to achieve a “modest but comfortable” $40k/year middle-class retirement, you need $1M assets (not including your residence) to achieve a 4% safe withdrawal rate. Basically, you have to be a millionaire by retirement just to avoid poverty.)
i personally don’t know any of those people
That “study” is a charity trying to guilt people into giving money. When you adjust for PPP it becomes quite a different story. The media loves it because it drives clicks but it’s literally just a calculator to guilt you and a list of approved charities.
This is what Oxfam has to say, from the actual article.
The immense concentration of wealth, driven significantly by increased monopolistic corporate power, has allowed large corporations and the ultrarich who exercise control over them to use their vast resources to shape global rules in their favor, often at the expense of everyone else.
The immense concentration of wealth, driven significantly by increased monopolistic corporate power, has allowed large corporations and the ultrarich who exercise control over them to use their vast resources to shape global rules in their favor, often at the expense of everyone else.
This is literally everything.
Aside from the bullshit religion is responsible for, the vast majority of the issues with the whole world is down to this. Government of the corporation, by the corporation, for the corporation.
In addition to the problems with this that others have stated, this also ignores the wealth distribution among that 1%. Like how much does that 95% go down if we limit it to the top 0.1%? 0.01%?
1% of 8 billion is only 80 million. I wouldn’t say most Americans are in the 1% when the 80 million is spread around the world.
I don’t know how this keeps getting trotted out and up voted. I swear it gets dunked on every time.
Not just Americans. First world nations in general. That’s about 20% of the population in there, so the top 5% of US, Europe, Japan, Australia, etc. We’re talking the upper middle class. $100K pre-tax gets you there easily, and thanks to rising prices of housing, I doubt most of them feel very rich at all.
The billionaires are holding big numbers as well, and there’s a few of those dotted around the world, but I’d imagine they’re mostly concentrated in first world countries. If you can live anywhere, why would you live in a craphole?
I don’t feel like an oligarch.
Yeah, where’s my yacht?
Most Americans won’t have that much wealth even in retirement.
I’d say it’s also relative to an area’s COL. Not technically, but practically. Sure I’m living great compared to many. The kleptocrats are the ones killing us all, including the habitat they need to survive. But hey, as long as they live longest with the most money, it’s all cake.
Then tax the first world?
Huh. I feel like I recall that “95” as a “70” in the disconcertingly recent past.
Wheeeeeee hypercapitalism 😑
came here to comment just this.
it couldnt have been earlier than 2016 that this number was close to 60%.
COVID did wonders for the wealth concentration of billionaires… Mom and pops close down, billionaires can ride it out and if anything made profit.
‘Global Oligarchy’ Reigns as Top 1% Controls More Wealth Than Bottom 95% of Humanity
Excellent wording.
The swine have gorged their fill
Three thousand masters,
all demanding their till
They’ll call us savages
Cause we eat what we kill
Very nice. Is that a quote from something, or you come up with it yerself? (Yes I Googled it, but that doesn’t turn up shit these days.)
I mashed it together from some Fit For An Autopsy songs. Every lyric they write just slaps with the times.
Let’s invite them all to a wedding of a fake international pop star and start playing the rains of castemere.
I hear billionaire pot pie tastes great. The ketamine cooks right out.
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