Apossum
09-21-2006, 11:11 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5369460.stm
was gonna put this in the OT forum, but fuck it.
sighs and mumbled swears all around for this one.
The tip of the top 1% are worth $1.25 trillion fucking dollars. It's good that some of them are philanthropists, but still, IIRC, that's about 80% of the rest of the U.S.' wealth or more....as in almost everybody. The total number of people you see tomorrow, every single person you lay your eyes on, might not even have a combined income of a billion or two.
if that's not fucked up, I don't know what is.
(and yes, I know what capitalism is...doesn't make these figures any less off-putting.)
was gonna put this in the OT forum, but fuck it.
sighs and mumbled swears all around for this one.
The tip of the top 1% are worth $1.25 trillion fucking dollars. It's good that some of them are philanthropists, but still, IIRC, that's about 80% of the rest of the U.S.' wealth or more....as in almost everybody. The total number of people you see tomorrow, every single person you lay your eyes on, might not even have a combined income of a billion or two.
if that's not fucked up, I don't know what is.
(and yes, I know what capitalism is...doesn't make these figures any less off-putting.)