Summary
Oxfam’s 2024 inequality report revealed a record $2 trillion increase in billionaire wealth, reaching $15 trillion, while global poverty rates remain stagnant.
The top 1% own 45% of all wealth, and 44% of people live on less than $6.85 daily.
Oxfam predicts five trillionaires within a decade, citing inheritance and cronyism as key wealth drivers. Elon Musk may become the first trillionaire by 2027.
Oxfam calls for tax reform, monopoly regulation, and income redistribution to address inequality.
Critics warn unchecked wealth concentration threatens democracy and economic fairness.
That’s the thing about history. I think if you were standing in Imperial Russia in the early 1900s (or France in the late 1780s/early 1790s), you would have never guessed what was coming, even with the chain of catastrophes that seemed to continuously arise from Nicolas being an self-assured idiot.
That’s also the thing about history, there’s always some dead person to blame everything on while doing absolutely nothing now to stop it