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Re:Millionaires call for an emergency tax on billionaires by hindsightbias on Friday August 13, 2021 @11:27AM (#28170106)
~700M people live in extreme poverty today (<$2 a day) while there is more than $12 trillion in 401k and IRAs.

Homes are a luxury.

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Re:Millionaires call for an emergency tax on billionaires by ksec on Friday August 13, 2021 @03:51PM (#28173708)
We were on course to completely eradicate extreme poverty by 2030 if it wasn't for COVID. But then I would argue even today most of the extreme poverty are partly a results of politics in their region.
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Re:Millionaires call for an emergency tax on billionaires by ben_w on Friday August 13, 2021 @11:37AM (#28170283)
That number has been trending downwards for ages even though we’re not capping income: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/distribution-of-populatio...
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