The world will have its first trillionaire within a decade, but poverty won't be eradicated for another 229 years, report finds

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The world will have its first trillionaire within a decade, but poverty won't be eradicated for another 229 years, report finds
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The current system we operate in requires poverty to function. It requires people to be desperate so that they work for the oligarchs and, it requires the absolute destitute to exist to serve as a warning to the masses. If poverty didn’t exist our capitalist world would simply create it.

The Nature of Capitalism

https://youtu.be/WseyrYuD8ao