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funeralcrasher ([personal profile] funeralcrasher) wrote2006-12-06 09:35 am

Wealth

2% own 50% of all the wealth in the world.
1% own 40%
50% own 1%



More tax cuts for the rich!!!!

[identity profile] perpetual-lent.livejournal.com 2006-12-06 03:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, if we all work together, we can go for a record 1% owning 50% of the wealth! Everyone pull together now!
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[identity profile] johnbutler.livejournal.com 2006-12-06 04:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, now that the Democrats have won, everything will get fixed, and you can stop depending on Rich People for your paycheck and figure out how to live without them.

[identity profile] trans-mag.livejournal.com 2006-12-06 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Doing the math, does that mean that 47% of the world's population owns the remaining 9% of the wealth?

The distribution of wealth tends to regulate itself over time -- albeit, relatively long periods of time... The pendulum swings back and forth. At one extreme, if 1 per cent owned 90% of the wealth, the other 99% would not have enough wealth to buy anything. The *stuff* that the 1% had, which defined their wealth, would be worthless, if thre was no prospect of selling it or converting it into a freely exchangeable form (such as money). Not to mention the *outrage of the masses* factor. And the *system*, as such, would collapse. How would the collapse manifest itself? The Russian Revolution and the French Revolution, before it, are prime examples... And the Fall of Rome, come to think about it... :-)