return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 10 months agoThe world will have its first trillionaire within a decade, but poverty won't be eradicated for another 229 years, report findswww.cnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square68fedilinkarrow-up1412arrow-down112cross-posted to: aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
arrow-up1400arrow-down1external-linkThe world will have its first trillionaire within a decade, but poverty won't be eradicated for another 229 years, report findswww.cnbc.comreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 10 months agomessage-square68fedilinkcross-posted to: aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
minus-squarePat_Riot@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up107arrow-down1·10 months agoThe existence of a trillionaire nearly guarantees that poverty is never going anywhere
minus-squareSkeezix@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up27arrow-down1·10 months agoThat’s what people don’t seem to get: you can’t have extreme rich without having extreme poor. That’s a baked-in side effect of our current strain of capitalism.
minus-squarecreamed_eels@toast.ooolinkfedilinkarrow-up7·10 months ago“We can’t not have poverty, it’s just not biblical” -paraphrasing this one idiot nationalist christian whose slimy name escapes me atm
minus-squareTokenBoomer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoI sea what you did there, and I love it.
The existence of a trillionaire nearly guarantees that poverty is never going anywhere
That’s what people don’t seem to get: you can’t have extreme rich without having extreme poor. That’s a baked-in side effect of our current strain of capitalism.
“We can’t not have poverty, it’s just not biblical”
-paraphrasing this one idiot nationalist christian whose slimy name escapes me atm
I sea what you did there, and I love it.