We are in a billionaire economy, influenced by billionaires and designed to serve the interest of billionaires, at our expense.
Workers from the Global South provide 90% of the world's work and receive only 21% of the revenue.
We need to dismantle the billionaire economy.
More in our report.
Workers from the Global South provide 90% of the world's work and receive only 21% of the revenue.
We need to dismantle the billionaire economy.
More in our report.
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PRESS RELEASE: Billionaire wealth surges by $2 trillion in 2024, 3 times faster than the year before, while the number of people living in poverty has barely changed since 1990.
At this pace, we won’t see 1 trillionaire in a decade, but 5.
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At this pace, we won’t see 1 trillionaire in a decade, but 5.
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#WEF2025
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Adam Smith used the word 'education' EIGHTY Times in Wealth of Nations & wrote "read, write and ACCOUNT" multiple times.
The book is free on the Internet, anybody can search it.
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/3300
Marx used the word 'depreciation' 35 times in the first two volumes of Das Kapital.
Marx & Smith never saw a planned obsolescence economy. Our economists leave out Net Domestic Product.