[Zardoz]

We knew it was bad, but not this bad:

...the poorer half of the world's population own barely 1% of global wealth.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')hat they mean by wealth in this study is what people own, less what they owe - their debts. The assets include land, buildings, animals and financial assets.

[lateStarter]

The only chance we have to change where we are heading is in the hands of the '2% Club'. What are the odds of that happening? As always, those in power will do nothing to jepoardize the status quo. We are doomed...

[rogerhb]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lateStarter', 'T')he only chance we have to change where we are heading is in the hands of the '2% Club'.

[lateStarter]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rogerhb', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lateStarter', 'T')he only chance we have to change where we are heading is in the hands of the '2% Club'.

[NEOPO]

all that yet zionist NWO theories dont fly here?

[mmasters]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 't')his is apocalyptic. That fanastic wealth is parked in 'instruments.' Securities, real estate, stocks, etc. etc. etc. It does nothing. It contributes nothing. And it is getting rusty and will crumble into nothing unless it is cycled and recyled through the productive economy.

[Daculling]

I think it's been said before here... the middle class is the wall that keeps the poor from the throats of the rich. If that goes all you can do to maintain order is mass murder.

[PrairieMule]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', '[')url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6211250.stm]...the poorer half of the world's population own barely 1% of global wealth.[/url]

[lotrfan55345]

2% is ¬130,000,000 people though.

[mmasters]

IIRC the top 1/100th of 1 percent (about 500,000 people or a small to medium size city) own about 10% of the planet.

[gego]

Do you know what this statistically abnormal distribution of wealth indicates?

Here is a clue: The distribution of wealth on a pre US Civil War southern plantation; the master and his family with the majority of the wealth, a few middle class hired overseers, and the majority of the people being slaves with almost no wealth.

I say the world maldistribution of wealth is an indication of slavery, otherwise we would have a normal distribution of wealth.

This slavery is created and enforced by the masters in power. The only difference between slavery on a southern plantation and the worldwide plantation we live on now is the chains are now invisible; the chains are embodied in the laws that grant privilege to the few at the expense of the many. The chains are so much a part of everyday life that nobody sees them; they are just hiding in plain sight, so ordinary and usual.

And the absolutely most absurd part is that in the "democratic" nations we actually willingly vote for the master class who then enforce this system of plunder upon us.

[NEOPO]

Oh just stop it with your wacky conspiracy theories will ya!!

Yer making peak oil look bad!!

:edit: forgot to add the following:
"why do we talk about it if we cant do anything about it?"
"how does this matter?"
"dont say things like that unless you want to end up in some detention center!"

<sarcasm off>

[gego]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Daculling', 'I') think it's been said before here... the middle class is the wall that keeps the poor from the throats of the rich. If that goes all you can do to maintain order is mass murder.

[TommyJefferson]

NPR said yesterday regarding this story that anyone with $6,100 in assets is in the top 10%.

WhooHoo!

I have that much assets in guns alone, not to mention my land, motorcycle, MRE's, roto-tiller, etc. I'm in the top 10% of the richest people on the planet!

Suck it peasants!