cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/57305272
Total billionaire wealth in the EU reached €2.4 trillion by late November, exceeding Italy’s entire GDP of €2.2 trillion and approaching France’s €2.9 trillion economy, a new Oxfam report found.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20260118190308/https://euobserver.com/health-and-society/ara3abf5ee
Rich people are a very solvable problem, so let’s focus on problems we can solve first okay?
Who knows, maybe the other problems will be easier to solve without billionaires making them worse!
ALL the rich people, right? Including pootin and Pooh bear?
Again, let’s focus on problems we can solve first. That means taking the beam out of our own eye before we go around criticizing the motes in others, or however that parable goes. We have far worse problems in our own home.
What makes you think that Pooh is rich?
Racists like to compare President Xi to a yellow animal.
I was just playing along with their use of language. Irregardless, it doesn’t strike me as Xi would be among billionaires.
Actually Xi is probably the richest person on earth.
Why? Because China is the world’s 2.5th biggest economy (2nd only to the US when counting countries, but the EU is richer than China and is often counted), and it’s the biggest dictatorship (for now, since the US is at risk of dictatorship). Being a dictator, he COULD just sell parts of the country and I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t be stopped if he tried. And when something can be sold and thus converted to money, it counts as wealth.
It’s a good thing then that he uses his power to redistribute wealth, alleviating poverty and building infrastructure.
He doesn’t need private wealth when he controls an entire nation for life.