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[–] moral_quandary@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If the entire human population was just 100 people stranded on an island in the Pacific, would we allow
1% (which in this case would just be 1 person ) to own 95% of all the resources? Hell No!

World’s top 1% own more wealth than 95% of humanity

[–] lunarul@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

It's nice to say no, but across history there have been so so many societies that have allowed exactly that at similar scales.