Reply #105: In the last two years, being for the poor has become my litmus test. [View All]

Today, the poorest country in the world (Sierra Leone, I believe) is POORER than the poorest country in the wolrd in the 19th centtury, which was China. At that time, by no coincidence, the richest country was the UK which was getting rich off of China.

In the last century and a halve, I believe (IIRC) the richest county per capita (Luxembourg, with the US close behind) is 75 times wealthier than the Uk was when it was ripping off china.

So the wealthy have gotten very wealthy, but the poor have gotten poorer.

At some point, we have to do something about this polarization of wealth before we cross teh tipping point globally (the same way the US crossed the tipping point during the Great Depression).