Billionaire wealth surged by over $300 billion in the first month of the year. It would take 15 million workers an entire
Billionaire wealth surged by over $300 billion in the first month of the year. It would take 15 million workers an entire year to make as much money.
Since G20 Finance Ministers agreed to work together to effectively tax the super-rich in July 2024, billionaires have pocketed over $1 trillion in new wealth.
More than 50 organizations from across the world are urging G20 leaders to tax the super-rich to end extreme inequality, and invest in climate, environmental and social action.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: guillotines are not the answer. Modern people won't respond to it. Too old school, too boring, you need a spectacle.
On an unrelated note, woodchippers are cheaper than you'd think.
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you.
Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten.
Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire.
You have laid up treasure in the last days.
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence.
You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you.
It truly is a brilliant way to make bribes and under-the-table payments... just pump up a guy's stock. You make him richer, and you could potentially get richer as well. And it's legal.
The billionaires are already in the business of inventing new currencies as a method of wealth extraction. So unless the new currency is billionaire scalps, it's not going to do anything.
Awe fuck. Time to go back to grow our food and learn a trade so we all can trade our skilled labor/services in some sort of online marketplace that doesn't use a currency.