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Title: 62 people now own as much wealth as half of the world's population
Post by: Stalin on January 19, 2016, 10:19:00 PM
  :shh

 - 12 months ago, 80 people owned half the wealth on earth
 - in 2010, the 388 richest people owned 50%

 :shh
 


source:  both oxfam
Title: Re: 62 people now own as much wealth as half of the world's population
Post by: 🏅Dooks on January 20, 2016, 02:36:25 AM
Extreme Capitalism. The table is tilted.
Title: Re: 62 people now own as much wealth as half of the world's population
Post by: Dougeytherichmondfan on January 20, 2016, 01:44:12 PM
Revolution could be around the corner. When the bourgeois start to take notice and rally. get the guillotines out....
Title: Re: 62 people now own as much wealth as half of the world's population
Post by: 🏅Dooks on January 20, 2016, 06:15:44 PM
Revolution could be around the corner. When the bourgeois start to take notice and rally. get the guillotines out....

Was talking to a mate about this very thing today with the french example too
Title: Re: 62 people now own as much wealth as half of the world's population
Post by: Stalin on January 21, 2016, 11:20:40 AM
The stats don't take into account the true wealth of some people; Rothschild, Putin

it'd be fascinating to see the proper numbers
Title: Re: 62 people now own as much wealth as half of the world's population
Post by: Francois Jackson on January 21, 2016, 04:11:33 PM
The stats don't take into account the true wealth of some people; Rothschild, Putin

it'd be fascinating to see the proper numbers

can hardly wait. Will be mind boggling mate.

Title: Re: 62 people now own as much wealth as half of the world's population
Post by: Diocletian on January 21, 2016, 04:47:36 PM
Revolution could be around the corner. When the bourgeois start to take notice and rally. get the guillotines out....

Was talking to a mate about this very thing today with the french example too


So are you prepared to take up arms - you know, those evil gun things that those "crazy Americans" love but that you're both so dead against the proletariat being allowed access to? Because that's usually what's required to stage a revolution. :shh
Title: Re: 62 people now own as much wealth as half of the world's population
Post by: 🏅Dooks on January 21, 2016, 09:48:49 PM
Revolution could be around the corner. When the bourgeois start to take notice and rally. get the guillotines out....

Was talking to a mate about this very thing today with the french example too


So are you prepared to take up arms - you know, those evil gun things that those "crazy Americans" love but that you're both so dead against the proletariat being allowed access to? Because that's usually what's required to stage a revolution. :shh

Gandhi would beg to differ. So would many others
Title: Re: 62 people now own as much wealth as half of the world's population
Post by: Dougeytherichmondfan on January 21, 2016, 10:55:28 PM
Revolution could be around the corner. When the bourgeois start to take notice and rally. get the guillotines out....

Was talking to a mate about this very thing today with the french example too


So are you prepared to take up arms - you know, those evil gun things that those "crazy Americans" love but that you're both so dead against the proletariat being allowed access to? Because that's usually what's required to stage a revolution. :shh

Gandhi would beg to differ. So would many others

Actually what's required to stage a revolution is a motivated bourgeois, disenfranchised and lacking opportunity to further capital due the impositions from the ruling class. The rest kinda sorts itself out.
Title: Re: 62 people now own as much wealth as half of the world's population
Post by: Diocletian on January 22, 2016, 12:02:02 AM
...and once these huddled masses are motivated how do you presume they'll actually seize power from the ruling classes of the western military-industrial complex? Via sit-ins & snappy hashtags? Good luck with that. Or do you have a problem with guns but not guillotines? You do realise you have to actually get people to the guillotines first - you can't actually run around with them wielding them as weapons?

Dooks you might have a bit more credibility citing Gandhi as an example if you hadn't also already referenced the French Revolution in your initial post.

Title: Re: 62 people now own as much wealth as half of the world's population
Post by: 🏅Dooks on January 22, 2016, 02:07:45 AM
I said I was talking to a mate about the french revolution in today's context. I never said I agreed with its violence or that we should be violent. That's your assumption
Title: Re: 62 people now own as much wealth as half of the world's population
Post by: Dougeytherichmondfan on January 22, 2016, 06:28:13 AM
...and once these huddled masses are motivated how do you presume they'll actually seize power from the ruling classes of the western military-industrial complex? Via sit-ins & snappy hashtags? Good luck with that. Or do you have a problem with guns but not guillotines? You do realise you have to actually get people to the guillotines first - you can't actually run around with them wielding them as weapons?

Dooks you might have a bit more credibility citing Gandhi as an example if you hadn't also already referenced the French Revolution in your initial post.

Who said anything about huddled masses? I was thinking more of a Tasmanian genocide vibe. Everyone spread out, and we just sweep across the country, snatching up the champion capitalists in big hessian bags, and brought before the court of the prols to be handed down lifetime sentences. Give them the hideous dole bludger status (complete with monthly today tonight/a current affair stories) for the rest of their miserable lives. Now theres a revolution I could get around....
Title: Re: 62 people now own as much wealth as half of the world's population
Post by: (•))(©™ on January 22, 2016, 06:43:37 AM
Which half?
Africa,Soith America, etc?
Title: Re: 62 people now own as much wealth as half of the world's population
Post by: Stalin on January 22, 2016, 09:33:09 AM
Monaco
Aruba
Cayman islands
Title: Re: 62 people now own as much wealth as half of the world's population
Post by: Stalin on January 22, 2016, 11:34:49 AM
The stats don't take into account the true wealth of some people; Rothschild, Putin

it'd be fascinating to see the proper numbers

can hardly wait. Will be mind boggling mate.

I wouldn't hold your breath.
Title: Re: 62 people now own as much wealth as half of the world's population
Post by: Stalin on January 22, 2016, 11:51:23 AM
...and once these huddled masses are motivated how do you presume they'll actually seize power from the ruling classes of the western military-industrial complex? Via sit-ins & snappy hashtags? Good luck with that. Or do you have a problem with guns but not guillotines? You do realise you have to actually get people to the guillotines first - you can't actually run around with them wielding them as weapons?

Dooks you might have a bit more credibility citing Gandhi as an example if you hadn't also already referenced the French Revolution in your initial post.

 :lol