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Sreeja V
@Wordsmith · 0:52

How the pandemic widened the gap between the rich and the poor

article image placeholderOxfam: Covid-19 Created 573 Billionaires, One Every 30 Hours
Hello. Swell. I wanted to share this report by Oxfam, which indicates that 573 billionaires were created during the pandemic, almost one every 30 hours. And since is a pandemic, there has also been a rise in number of people who have fallen into poverty, which is about 1 million people every 33 hours. So this kind of disparity is really shocking. And it looks like the pandemic has widened the between the rich and the poor poor

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@Gogasusa
Gogasusa Pathasarathi
@Gogasusa · 1:32

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The gap between billionaires and poor people is increased very much after this COVID era and I want to say like what are the way to just avoid the situation? It has to go with so much huge discussion I think and it's not only in this case, we have seen so many other cases in the history also like in destroyation and black disease spreading and all those history even proven the same so we need to have to have a great discussion on the same topic. Anyway, thanks a lot for this
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@DBPardes
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 3:51

@wordsmith

I think the reckoning has to come when people feel a call to be part of a universal solution. And of course, someone rolling their eyes who's an economist or someone who works in government is going to say, why are you thinking about the Kumbaya moment here? But the truth is people have to feel into the dire Straits that we're in. They have to feel accountable to it. And then it won't just be about them paying taxes
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Sreeja V
@Wordsmith · 2:41

@DBPardes

But I think somewhere what probably happens is there is a mad rush to get into the top five billionaire list right after a point that world probably be the next step in their evolution on this path. I don't know what happens when you beautifully mentioned the core. That was the thought that came to my mind. What happens next when you have so much wealth that not just you, possibly your next generation and the generation to come could happily live by, yet you want to make more and more wealth
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