The Guardian pubblica i nomi degli otto stronzi:
Oxfam said it was “beyond grotesque” that a handful of rich men headed by the Microsoft founder Bill Gates are worth $426bn (£350bn), equivalent to the wealth of 3.6 billion people.
Oxfam said the world’s poorest 50% owned the same in assets as the $426bn owned by a group headed by Gates, Amancio Ortega, the founder of the Spanish fashion chain Zara, and Warren Buffett, the renowned investor and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway. The others are Carlos Slim Helú: the Mexican telecoms tycoon and owner of conglomerate Grupo Carso; Jeff Bezos: the founder of Amazon; Mark Zuckerberg: the founder of Facebook; Larry Ellison, chief executive of US tech firm Oracle; and Michael Bloomberg; a former mayor of New York and founder and owner of the Bloomberg news and financial information service.
Notasi, mancano Apple e Google… c’è meno disparità all’interno di queste ditte?
Last year, Oxfam said the world’s 62 richest billionaires were as wealthy as half the world’s population. However, the number has dropped to eight in 2017 because new information shows that poverty in China and India is worse than previously thought, making the bottom 50% even worse off and widening the gap between rich and poor.
“From Brexit to the success of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, a
worrying rise in racism and the widespread disillusionment with
mainstream politics, there are increasing signs that more and more
people in rich countries are no longer willing to tolerate the status
quo,” the report said.
“While one in nine people on the planet will go to bed hungry tonight, a
small handful of billionaires have so much wealth they would need
several lifetimes to spend it. The fact that a super-rich elite are able
to prosper at the expense of the rest of us at home and overseas shows
how warped our economy has become.”
Interessante che il WEF a Davos conferma:
The World Economic Forum (WEF) said last week that rising inequality and social polarisation posed two of the biggest risks to the global economy in 2017 and could result in the rolling back of globalisation.
The body that organises the Davos event said rising inequality was not an “iron law of capitalism”, but a matter of making the right policy choices.
Intanto Falkvinge si appiglia alle uscite degli istituti autodichiarati di economia:
Mark Littlewood, director general at the Institute of Economic Affairs
thinktank, said: “Once again Oxfam have come out with a report that
demonises capitalism, conveniently skimming over the fact that free
markets have helped over 100 million people rise out of poverty in the
last year alone.”
Si, è vero, ma al prezzo di ingiustizia ed un imminente collasso ecologico.