These days I’m finding it increasingly difficult to ingest the news without jumping up and pulling the hair out of my head and yelling at people. And this week, a report from Oxfam was giving me all the motivation I needed to start yanking my hair out in clumps.
Oxfam is an international confederation of charitable organisations working on alleviating global poverty. Basically, its report stated “world’s richest 1% get 82% of the wealth” created in 2017. Now, this is not that surprising – there are constantly stories in the news about economic inequality. But let’s really think about what this specific report means.
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