Trillionaire…

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We’re fast approaching the era of the trillionaire. What can we do to stop it?

In the fight for a balanced economy and healthier democracy, the increasing power of the ultra-rich is a calamity we cannot afford

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Feb 5/24 The Guardian

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‘To celebrate the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, Oxfam releases a study of how much of the world’s wealth the ultra-rich own. This year’s was a doozy. The five richest men in the world were revealed to have doubled their wealth in the years since 2020. Seven of the 10 biggest corporations in the world have a billionaire as their CEO or principal shareholder. Combined, the value of these companies – which include Apple, Microsoft and Saudi Aramco – exceeds the GDP of every single country in Africa and Latin America combined. That’s 87 countries: virtually everything bought, sold, consumed produced and dreamed up by two billion people in a whole year.

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