Total billionaire wealth in the EU reached €2.4 trillion by late November, exceeding Italy's entire GDP of €2.2 trillion and approaching France's €2.9 trillion economy, a new Oxfam report found.
    • oce 🐆@jlai.luEnglish
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      4 months ago

      This makes me think, there is some kind of “system creationism” philosophy in the far left that is not unlike the Christian one. Thinking that some all powerfull entity (or group) created/designed the situation by itself rather than thinking it is the result of extremely complex historical chain of events and balance between groups and environments. By extension it leads to thinking that somehow removing the powerful entity magically solves the problem.

        • RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.caEnglish
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          4 months ago

          You’re suggesting we burn our respective countries to the ground, full on civil war and complete destruction, fracture of civil society, starvation and economic collapse, with no guarantees about who, when or what will step into that maelstrom of human suffering, other than your assurances that it will be better than what we have now.

          Sorry, but I’m skeptical that you have a reasonable way forward.

        • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Why would you salt the ashes if you intend to rebuild? You’re aware that that makes land inarable for generations, right?