[ExI] The INCREDIBLE acceleration of the wealth gap

Dylan Distasio interzone at gmail.com
Mon Jan 16 22:33:01 UTC 2017


What is your suggestion for resolving this terrifying situation?

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 5:27 PM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> Holy shit! I said the wealth gap was huge and I said it was accelerating,
> but my posts vastly underestimated it. Take a look at today's New York
> Times:
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/world/eight-richest-
> wealth-oxfam.html?_r=0
>
> In the carefree innocent days of last week I said
> ​that ​
> in 4 or 5 years the number of people that would equal the wealth of the
> poorest half of the human race, 3.6 Billion people
> ​,​
>
> ​could​
> be in the teens, but as of today that number is *8*! And I don't mean 8
> factorial I mean *8*.
>
> In 2010 it took 388 people to equal 3.6 billion
> ​ people​
> , in 2014 it was 85, last year it
> ​was​
>> 62, *AND NOW IT IS 8*. I suppose nobody should have been surprised that
> people are getting so angry they do irrational things, like voting for
> Donald Trump, even though Trump's policies, to the extent that he has
> policies, will only accelerate the acceleration of the acceleration of the
> gap. Anybody who is not terrified by this doesn't understand the situation.
>>
>  John K Clark​
>
>
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