The world will have its first trillionaire within a decade, but poverty won't be eradicated for another 229 years, report finds - eviltoast
In the last three years, the population of the super wealthy has skyrocketed in the U.S. and around the world.
  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    201·
    10 months ago

    Poverty will never be eradicated. At no point in human civilization have we managed to eliminate poverty, and as long as there are rich people needing to extract maximum profits from fellow humans there will always be poor people.

    • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
      2·
      10 months ago

      Poverty is needed for the rich to be rich. That’s the basic foundation of the system. That was really a dumb report. Except the trillionaire-thing. We will witness that