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Firstly, your maths is wrong. The top 2755 people have wealth of $13 trillion.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2021/04/06/forbes-35th-annual-worlds-billionaires-list-facts-and-figures-2021/?sh=68c901555e58
The total wealth of Earth is $454 trillion.
https://www.credit-suisse.com/about-us/en/reports-research/global-wealth-report.html
13/454=0.028
So less than 3%. Nowhere near 94%.
Secondly, in the UK at least, the wealthy already pay a disproportionately high amount of the bills.
https://www.lse.ac.uk/research/research-for-the-world/economics/how-much-tax-do-the-rich-really-pay
Does that change your mind?
Terence Eden /
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2024-03-03 08:12:45
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