Who wants to be a Billionaire ?


Who wants to be a billionaire ?

A short story today, but one of the most shocking that I have ever seen.  2 lists and 2 paragraphs say it all.

According to Forbes there were 2,153 $ billionaires in 2019, and their colossal fortune amounted to $8,700,000,000,000.  Or in words $8,700 billion.
The wealth of these billionaires exceeds the wealth of the poorest 118 countries of the world.
Over 80% of the world’s wealth in held in 4 territories being USA, China, Europe and Japan.  So, the remaining 20% is held by the other 160 countries.

The richest individuals are as follows :-
                               Forbes wealth $bn       Country                   1. Jeff Bezos                 113                         USA
     2.  Bill Gates                    98                         USA
     3.  Bernard Arnault           76                         France
     4.  Warren Buffett             68                         USA
     5.  Larry Ellison                59                         USA
     6.  Amancio Ortega           55                         Spain
     7.  Mark Zuckerberg          55                         USA
     8.  Jim Walton                   55                         USA  
     9.  Alice Walton                 54                         USA

The UK rich list are as follows :-        Sunday Times $bn
1.    Sri and Gopi Hinduja                       25
2.    David and Simon Reuben                 21
3.    Sir Jim Ratcliffe                              20
4.    Sir Leonard Blavatnik                      16
5.    Sir James Dyson and family             14
6.    Kirsten and Jorn Rausing                 13
7.    Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken       13
8.    Alisher Usmanov                            12
9.    Roman Abramovich                        12
10.Mikhail Fridman                             12  

If there is ONE reason why the World needs to re-set it laid out before us.  There is so much wealth owned by so few individuals and by so few countries.  And guess what,  these mega rich also own the world media and through their subtle hypnotic brain-washing are able to control the masses into voting for Conservative leaning political leaders.

For they would not want to pay the right level of taxation, and they certainly wouldn’t want to have the wealth redistributed to the poorest countries.  Never mind have their tax evasion trust funds removed, and be forced to pay the local level of taxation where they live.  Or heavens above, having to skim off all wealth above $500m into a GLOBAL Trust fund for the relief of the poorest of the poor.

Wouldn't it be great if we lived in a world, where the rich actually cared about the poor, and voluntarily donated all of their surpluses, after paying the right level of taxation.  Now wouldn’t that be nice.

BUT THEY WILL NOT. WE HAVE TO DO IT FOR THEM. WORLD WAKE UP ! AND FOR STARTERS DO NOT BELIEVE THE PRESS

Love and Peace


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