Just 42 people own the same amount of wealth as the poorest 50 percent worldwide, a new study by global charity Oxfam claimed.

In a report published Monday, Oxfam called for action to tackle the growing gap between the super-rich and the rest of the world. Approximately 82 percent of the money generated last year went to the richest 1 percent of the global population, the report said, while the poorest half saw no increase at all.

Wealth of billionaires had increased by 13 percent a year on average in the decade from 2006 to 2015. Last year, billionaires would have seen an uptick of $762 billion — enough to end extreme poverty seven times over.

The concentration of extreme wealth at the top is not a sign of a thriving economy but a symptom of a system that is failing the millions of hard-working people on poverty wages who make our clothes and grow our food,

Eight billionaires from around the globe had as much money as the 3.6 billion people who make up the poorest half of the world's population.


In normal world people did use Guillotine to fix that , it will be nice to use it again

Do you hold position 43 Tasman

charmoeren wrote: Do you hold position 43 Tasman

not yet , my current position is 7140456348 [ seven billion 140 million 456 thousand and 348 . number 43 , yes , from behind

tasman1 wrote:

charmoeren wrote: Do you hold position 43 Tasman

not yet , my current position is 7140456348 [ seven billion 140 million 456 thousand and 348 . number 43 , yes , from behind

$ 0.00 keep the balance tasman

position 43 from behind , not the worst..........as long as you not are the last on the list

In most countries the rich put up a government by financing a political system,in return a government makes policies to promote intrests of the rich naturally it means making anti people policies,common people vote for a government,even the media is controlled by the rich,very easily people are influenced by the media,an international organisations cannot change the facts it is in our hands to change it ,people make the same mistakes again and again ,there is a saying power is with the people which means only we can change things.

Yes, Very true indeed.

It seems like that people are getting more and more detached from the politicians and their practice, AND!! politicians are getting more more detached from the general public, And practically running their own business/show.

Let's just take my country as an example : Before the digital revolution (Nearly everything is digitalized in Denmark) People showed up physically in protest and demanded change if they felt something was wrong. And we still complain, But now wer'e hiding behind our monitors while yapping away at everything.

Somewhere between the lines we've gotten disconnected (While wer'e yapping on Facebook and other social media), From our dear politicians that's so far away, Somehow im actually thinking they've given up while a thunderstorm of angry facebookers, Instagrammers, Snapchatters, Redditer's accusing them for everything from A-Z (If they take 2 misteps it's Aaaaaaaaaaarrrgh reeeeeeeeeeee) What a bunch of filthy crooks.

Does the digital platform work for solving political issues??, I really really don't think it does.

We need to turn off our monitors and show up at political meetings and confront them with our very presence and have an actual debate face to face.

Were being bombarded with news everyday on the net so no one knows what's up and what's down anymore, Some think's Mr trump is trying to save the US while other's think that Hillary is the incarnation of the devil (666), All of us with our very own ecco-chambers and our self-induced truth, No one even bothers checking up what's the actual facts (And it's also nearly impossible knowing).

We need a revolution, But we need to show up ourselves (User-names dosn't work)

Even here in our country the government is trying to digitalise in the name of banning black money and corruption,in the past year millions have lost money with their credit cards,debit cards,mobile wallets,people getting leured by offers have found their bank account getting cleaned up,police is clueless about where the money has gone,they only understand its result of syber crime,people with IT expertise are involved,they have been able to recover very little money but still dont understand how and where the money has gone .

Once again
Eight billionaires from around the globe had as much money as the 3.6 billion people who make up the poorest half of the world's population.

Future, 10-20 biillionaires will have 100% of world wealth and NOBODY WILL CARE
Poor will have virtual world only and living on free drugs given by rich and govt

No justice and nobody care

Rich or Nature will destroy humans

My opinion ....... if we must be destroyed I will preffer Nature to destroy humans
That will be justice , We poor die but rich die to , we all die, justice done...R.I.P . all humans

One rich Elon Musk is enough to get rid of the most rich that matter,his Space X mission to Mars,will be affordable only to the very rich, will go on a never returning mission one small N Korean ICBM will accidentally hit it making a small hole in the space craft that will make it go crazy in space,mistakes do happen after all we are humans,next New Year will be the time to celebrate.

Arvind9 wrote: One rich Elon Musk is enough to get rid of the most rich that matter,his Space X mission to Mars,will be affordable only to the very rich, will go on a never returning mission one small N Korean ICBM will accidentally hit it making a small hole in the space craft that will make it go crazy in space,mistakes do happen after all we are humans,next New Year will be the time to celebrate.

The guy is absolutely mad.

Chances that the rocket will explode instead of launching is about 50/50

Latest news about space X

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Arvind9 wrote: One rich Elon Musk is enough to get rid of the most rich that matter,his Space X mission to Mars,will be affordable only to the very rich, will go on a never returning mission one small N Korean ICBM will accidentally hit it making a small hole in the space craft that will make it go crazy in space,mistakes do happen after all we are humans,next New Year will be the time to celebrate.

Yep , it will be nice to put all rich and all politicians on that rocket , pay North Korea to have a ,, mistake , vola , world saved

I will be first to contribute money for that matter