Friday 1 December 2017
Capitalism the Nightmare - Truthdig
"Nearly three-fourths (71 percent) of the world’s population is poor, living on $10 a day or less, and 11 percent (767 million people, including 385 million children) live in what the World Bank calls “extreme poverty” (less than a $1.90 a day). Meanwhile, Oxfam reliably reports that, surreal as it sounds, the world’s eight richest people possess among themselves as much wealth as the poorest half of the entire human race." Paul Street, Capitalism the Nightmare, Truthdig
This is a sobering thought for the first day of this year's Advent Calendar.
Trinkets and charms are fun to buy, to give and receive, but it almost seems as though we have given up trying to solve the worlds gravest threats, for a little novelty.
In the long run I hope for guidance from friends, science and philosophers to steer my efforts towards a social responsibility.
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