62 people have more wealth than half the worlds population

[TheHateful62]

Nothing wrong with capitalism (along with science, it's responsible for much of our standard of living) - as long as its purpose is bettering people..

That's not the purpose, is it

 

[Rotayjay]

That's not the purpose, is it

What I meant was capitalism creating wealth in society for those who work for it, rather than generating obscene wealth for a small minority and leaving scraps for the rest.

 

[Subutai]

They have hidden the true extent of their wealth since about 1820, who even knows how wealthy they are. I do know though that when Yukos boss khodorkovsy got jailed he tried to sign over that entity to Jacob Rothschild . Yukos was worth at least fifty billion. Hidden power.
us president, George bush senior was referring to a plan for the effective reality of one world government in his infamous new world order speech . liberal capitalist democracy sounds nice but another, more accurate way to describe what we really have is media-controlled faux democratic two party rotational system oligarchy. Hey I'm doing just fine for now, but it's a sinking ship we are on here and inequality of voice above all is one of the major causes. Apparently within 50 odd years all the fish in the sea will be drunk with co2 and surely they will be dead not long after, followed by us, in my calculations, not long after that, so let's not let wealth be the highest value survival sounds better to me

President Jimmy Carter says America, a once-free nation, is now an oligarchy, and that’s not just his opinion. It is provable, and backed up by the research of top political experts and scholars. An oligarchy is a government run by a small group of wealthy and influential people, rather than the majority. A Princeton University study, Affluence & Influence, by Martin Gilens, backs up former president Carter’s oligarchy statement about unlimited money in politics, such as allowed by Citizens United, upheld by the Supreme Court, as reported on Your News Wire.

“It violates the essence of what made America a great country in its political system. Now it’s just an oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting the nominations for president or to elect the president. And the same thing applies to governors and U.S. senators and congress members.”



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President Jimmy Carter sits down for a conversation on the first day of the Civil Rights Summit at the LBJ Presidential Library [Photo by Ralph Barrera-Pool/Getty Images]
President Jimmy Carter points to the ideal, that our government’s Constitution was based on the concept of democracy and freedom, at least as freedom and democracy were understood in the eighteenth century. Modern understanding of those may vary, but that was the overall goal. America was to be a government “by the people, of the people and for the people.” Experts are saying that is not what we have today. Carter states this in no uncertain terms.


“So now we’ve just seen a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors, who want and expect and sometimes get favors for themselves after the election’s over.”


Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/2850287/pr...lls-the-u-s-an-oligarchy/#p5udOZjVG60Zix1M.99

 

[Dry Rot]

I've just spotted this offensive thread, and as one of the 62 I've just purchased your entire suburb which I will bulldoze including its schools and churches.

Your kids can go and work in coal mines or become street hookers, ditto your wife. You can go live under a railway bridge.

It's not easy being in the top 62 - you should see the utter bitching from the next 62 rich chaps. It gets very heated at Illumanti meetings, which you plebs simply can't appreciate.

 

[chelseacarlton]

It's not easy being in the top 62 - you should see the utter bitching from the next 62 rich chaps. It gets very heated at Illumanti meetings, which you plebs simply can't appreciate.

What's the food like?

 

[Dry Rot]

What's the food like?

Well, I like it.

I now have my team of chefs from 2 or 3 hat restaurants specialising in rare and endangered animals and fish.

They come up with the damnedest stuff, washed down with aged Grand Cru burgundy.

And that's just breakfast.

 

[chelseacarlton]

Well, I like it.

I now have my team of chefs from 2 or 3 hat restaurants specialising in rare and endangered animals and fish.

They come up with the damnedest stuff, washed down with aged Grand Cru burgundy.

And that's just breakfast.

What was that movie again about that exact same theme?.
Weird,but I was thinking about it the other day,late 80's early 90's?!!.
I hope that Cru is Gevrey Chembertin or Romanée-Conti?
What's for lunch 33?

 

[nut]

Nothing wrong with capitalism (along with science, it's responsible for much of our standard of living) - as long as its purpose is bettering people. If people pay reasonable prices for products and services so entrepreneurs make lots of money, that's good. If people are gouged in prices and already-rich entrepreneurs benefit from these rip-offs, that's bad (For example: Petrol companies who are paying decade-low prices for oil but still charge us the same price for fuel. Power companies which charge you an arm and a leg for electricity but give you bugger-all when you feed it back into the grid. Banks who charge so much more interest than they give, while making billions of dollars per year).

In other words its bad and its broken.... you just named the sectors that have the greatest influence on peoples standard of living.

 

[Hawk Dork]

Asher Edelman, who inspired the Gordon “greed is good” Gekko character in Oliver Stone’s Wall Street
“When you have the top one percent getting money, they spend 5-10 percent of what they earn,” said Edelman. “When you have the lower end of the economy getting money, they spend a 100, or 110 percent of what they earn.
As you’ve had a transfer of wealth to the top, and a transfer of income to the top, you have a shrinking consumer base, basically, and you have a shrinking velocity of money.”

 

[Leeda]

I've just spotted this offensive thread, and as one of the 62 I've just purchased your entire suburb which I will bulldoze including its schools and churches.

Your kids can go and work in coal mines or become street hookers, ditto your wife. You can go live under a railway bridge.

It's not easy being in the top 62 - you should see the utter bitching from the next 62 rich chaps. It gets very heated at Illumanti meetings, which you plebs simply can't appreciate.

Do you have your own bike rack around town?

Can you tell your dog to shut the bitch up when it becomes impossible?

Handlebars on your shotting um shopping trolley are also required and turn the fwd into a dumb waiter...

As usual you drive the post DryRot and turned it into a freeforall.. Loveyourwork..

 

[Subutai]

Asher Edelman, who inspired the Gordon “greed is good” Gekko character in Oliver Stone’s Wall Street
“When you have the top one percent getting money, they spend 5-10 percent of what they earn,” said Edelman. “When you have the lower end of the economy getting money, they spend a 100, or 110 percent of what they earn.
As you’ve had a transfer of wealth to the top, and a transfer of income to the top, you have a shrinking consumer base, basically, and you have a shrinking velocity of money.”

You also have the upside, of not having the law applying to you when you reach the highest levels - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_and_sentencing_of_Robert_H._Richards_IV