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'Global Oligarchy' Reigns as Top 1% Controls More Wealth Than Bottom 95% of Humanity
(www.commondreams.org)
this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2024
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OK so I'm a millennial worth $-35,600, that's a negative net worth thanks to student loans and the fact that owning anything is outside of my shirt on my back is basically been priced out.
So a net worth of close to $900,000 is feeling a lot like a whole fuck ton of money to me. And probably a lot of other people nowhere fucking near that.
Just cause we live in "western" countries does not make it immediately that we are anywhere near the 1% either. It's 1% for a reason. Just more of that 1% live in western worlds cause that's where they want to live. Don't think of it as some slam dunk.