Monday, January 20, 2020

Obscene Wealth, Obscene Poverty

The ultra rich are obscenely rich:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-davos-meeting-inequality-idUSKBN1ZJ00B

Meanwhile, millions of Americans live in poverty:

https://youtu.be/JHDkALRz5Rk

And people in 20 countries around the world make less than $500 per month:

https://www.worlddata.info/average-income.php

These are the wages of capitalism and the Chicago school of economics.

Does anyone really believe that the only way to motivate people in life is to starve them if they don't work hard enough?

1 comment:

  1. And yet hardly anyone demonstrates when these rich bastards gather in Davos to celebrate their wealth and plan how to suck more blood from the rest of us:

    https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2020-01-20/davos-bolsters-security-as-protesters-march-toward-venue

    Pitiful !!!

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