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Guys, if you're in "developed" countries and you're at least 1.5x above the poverty line, you're included in the global 10%. This smells like greenwashing the ultra-rich's effect, rather than showcasing it.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02325-x
Top 1% is responsible for 20% of emissions and are 20x more responsible than the average person.
No. You are overestimating the income distribution in the world. The 10% worldwide threshold is a out 70k USD ppp, see: https://wid.world/world/#tptinc_p90p100_z/US;FR;DE;CN;ZA;GB;WO-PPP/last/us/k/p/yearly/t/false/0/200000/curve/false/country
2/3 of that would be 46k dollars. In which "developed" country in Europe would that be the poverty line? Poverty in German, iirc is around 20k euros.
This is a core component of the class war.
For all of history the ruling class have granted a minority of the proles a privileged life, who will play ball and defend their privileged position from the majority (uncle toms, lords, landowners, managers, lobbyists, politicians, even most CEO's).
Most of the richest 10-1% in the developing world earned their wealth through labor, and simply bought property or invested in retirement funds at the right time. They are still pawns, and not the ruling class decision makers — mostly born into so much wealth that they never had to work a day in their lives — who control corporations, political parties, military and geopolitical actions. They are the ones who own the media and propaganda machines, finance the class and culture wars, corrupt our political and democratic institutions, and have prevented our transition away from fossil fuels for 50+ years. Hell most of the 1-0.1% are not decision makers; probably successful doctors, lawyers, scientists, engineers, entertainers, etc.
No war but class war...
This should have been the headline.
17% of the global population lives in developed countries and there are plenty of rich people in developing countries too.
The so called middle class was created so that a portion of the working class would have enough wealth to consume products at a rate necessary to fuel the ongoing growth of the economy. In fulfilling this function (partly due to the influence of marketing propaganda), the middle class is also complicit. Not as complicit, but still.
Yes, very good. I think the people responsible for the decisions that lead us here should be held to account before those who passively participated, but I read you loud and clear.