• RubberDuck@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 months ago

    He adds: “The idea that squeezing a tiny elite of billionaires will pay for everything that we want and everything that we need is fantasy and we do need to expose that.”

    The fact that we have a society with billionaires while millions are living in poverty means simply that the policies of the last 50+ years have failed our society.

    Anyone defending billionaires is part of the problem and not looking for real solutions

    • Tenebris Nox@feddit.uk
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      2 months ago

      Yes. He seems to forget that “officially” the top 10% hold around 43-45% of all wealth, while the bottom 50% hold only about 9-10% of total wealth in the UK. And that doesn’t account for all the wealth they have hidden away offshore etc.

      There is a LOT that can be squeezed out of a not-so-tiny elite. Or, to be better phrased, redistributed justly.

    • maam@feddit.uk
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      2 months ago

      Guy must be worshiping Margaret Thatcher’s neoliberalism.

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      2 months ago

      billionaires

      *multi millionaires

      Nobody needs to earn more than above £1m and there should be 90% tax above this figure (irrespectively if the earnings are from work or capital gains etc).