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Wealth-hoarders bring our world to the brink
That Oxfam’s revelations on wealth fail to shock shows just how far we’ve fallen, writes RABBIL SIKDAR
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EVEN as we are no longer shocked by it, the latest Oxfam figures on inequality still feel shocking. The richest 62 individuals in the world now own as much as half of humanity. Last year that number was 86, so wealth is being consolidated into ever-fewer hands. You could fit the owners of half the world’s wealth into a plane without a sweat — maybe even a coach.
What a world this is where the unfair, unjust and unequal status quo has convinced people that it is born of economic rationality. Yet calling for a more even distribution of wealth, so not everything is hoarded in the pockets of a few dozen people, is deemed a wish for economic chaos and travesty.
We are heading towards another financial crash. This extremely lopsided balance of wealth, ensured by a collapsing financial system constantly resuscitated and propped up by public money, cannot sustain itself. The free-market politics, eight years after it nearly drove itself over the cliff, is veering in the same direction this time.
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