Ekstrem rigdom er årsagen til ekstrem fattigdom i hele verden?

100 mennesker kunne afskaffe hele verdens fattigdom.

100 mennesker kunne afskaffe hele verdens fattigdom fire gange, hvert eneste år.

World’s 100 richest earned enough in 2012 to end global poverty 4 times over.

Verdens 100 rigeste har tjent alene i 2012 så mange penge, at de kunne (hvis de ville) afskaffe fattigdommen på hele fire planeter Jordens størrelse.

I 2012 har disse 100 personer øget deres formue med i omegnen af 1.500.000.000.000 danske kroner eller med andre ord: 1billion og 500 milliarder danske kroner. Bare i 2012. 100 mennesker. 100 enkeltindivider. På bare et år.

Aha... Sagde nogen finanskrise ? Penge forsvinder ikke. De skifter bare hænder.

Økonomer har beregnet at bare en fjerde del (1/4) af dette beløb kunne afskaffe hele verdens fattigdom i et helt år, og synergi-effekten af dette gestus kunne halvere fattigdommen, og halvere den igen i årene fremover. Mætte mennesker har overskud til at problemløse, hvorimod sultne og syge kun kan tænke til det næste måltid mad, som de måske får, eller måske ikke.... (Kilde eller søg bare på: World’s 100 richest global poverty)

Kilder:
The world's 100 richest people earned a stunning total of $240 billion in 2012 – enough money to end extreme poverty worldwide four times ...
Annual income of richest 100 people enough to end global poverty four times over
The cost of inequality how wealth and income extremes hurt us all (PDF)
Oxfam seeks 'new deal' on inequality from world leaders
Can we fight poverty by ending extreme wealth?

Set i dette strålende lys af mammon, forkynder den danske fattiglus Nils Smedegaard Andersen, A.P. Møllers-Mærsks topchef med løn på kun sølle 20 millioner danske kroner om året, følgende budskab:

"Lavtlønnede danskere må gå ned i løn. Ellers flytter deres virksomheder til udlandet, fordi de ikke kan klare sig i konkurrencen."

Aha... De lavtlønnede i Danmark er i forvejen så lavtlønnede, at en gennemsnit familie ikke kan overleve for en løn, men begge skal ud og arbejde for overhovedet at opretholde skindet på næsen. Nils Smedegaard Andersen har lige glemt, at leveomkostninger i Danmark er nøjagtig 40% højere end ellers europæisk gennemsnit. Hvis Nils Smedegaard Andersen får magt som han har agt, vil vi få en helt ny social klasse i Danmark: working poor dvs. mennesker der knokler på fuldtid eller mere, og alligevel ikke kan tjene nok bare til dagen og vejen. Hvad skal de så spise, når lønnen er sluppet op allerede efter 14 dage hver eneste måned?

Billedet af de nye vinde i dansk politik bliver fuldendt med svadaen afleveret af administrerende direktør for Dansk Arbejdsgiverforening Jørn Neergaard Larsen, med følgende ord:

"Virksomhederne skal gøre hvad der er bedst for deres forretning og 'samfundssind' er ikke et ord en virksomhedsleder bør tage i sin mund"

Jeg lader ordene stå lidt øjeblik..... (Kilde: P1 Debat 24. Apr. 2013 kl. 10:50)

Godt nok handler det om fordeling af velstand i USA, men bortset fra at vores mindsteløn er højere end amerikansk - går vores velstands-fordeling nøjagtig samme vej.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM

Infographics on the distribution of wealth in America, highlighting both the inequality and the difference between our perception of inequality and the actual numbers. The reality is often not what we think it is.


Hvis nogen har ledige 3½ time til at hygge sig med Pengenes Historie - er her en ganske berigende oplevelse: The Money Masters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDlnM481Gcg

The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching plan, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole...Their secret is that they have annexed from governments, monarchies, and republics the power to create the world's money..."

THE MONEY MASTERS is a 3 1/2 hour non-fiction, historical documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the world today.

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Verdens 100 rigeste har tjent alene i 2012 så mange penge, at de kunne (hvis de ville) afskaffe fattigdommen på hele fire planeter svarende til Jorden.

I 2012 har disse 100 personer øget deres formue med i omegnen af 1.500.000.000.000 danske kroner eller med andre ord: 1billion og 500 milliarder danske kroner. Bare i 2012. 100 mennesker. 100 enkeltindivider. På bare et år.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q6m5NgrCJs

Nearly 200.000 farmers have committed suicide in India over the last 10 years. But the mainstream media hardly reflects this. Nero's Guests is a story about India’s agrarian crisis and the growing inequality seen through the work of the Rural Affairs Editor of Hindu newspaper, P Sainath. Through sustained coverage of the farm crisis, Sainath and his colleagues created the national agenda, compelling a government in denial to take notice and act. Through his writings and lectures, Sainath makes us confront the India we don’t want to see, and provokes us to think about who ‘Nero’s Guests’ are in today’s world.


Relateret:
Seminar Nero’s Guests
Nerosguests.com
"Inequality: The Global Economy and Local Realities"

"Kill The Poor"
By Dead Kennedys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aATm5cON87M

Efficiency and progress is ours once more
Now that we have the Neutron bomb
It's nice and quick and clean and gets things done
Away with excess enemy
But no less value to property
No sense in war but perfect sense at home:

The sun beams down on a brand new day
No more welfare tax to pay
Unsightly slums gone up in flashing light
Jobless millions whisked away
At last we have more room to play
All systems go to kill the poor tonight

Gonna
Kill kill kill kill Kill the poor:Tonight

Behold the sparkle of champagne
The crime rate's gone
Feel free again
O' life's a dream with you, Miss Lily White
Jane Fonda on the screen today
Convinced the liberals it's okay
So let's get dressed and dance away the night

While they:
Kill kill kill kill Kill the poor:Tonight

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While they:
Kill kill kill kill Kill the poor:Tonight

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Når den borgerlige ungdom fester, synger de sange fra deres Sangbog. Bl.a. denne:

Kampsang
9: Det var et herligt KU-møde
Mel. Blaze away, tekst: ukendt

Det var et herligt KU-møde,
der var stemning og humør - og humør.
Og vi tævede de røde,
som de sikkert ej er blevet tævet før.
Igennem luften sused' stole,
og vor sang har den parole:
Kampen er forbi - er forbi
Nu kommer Eriks politi.

På alle gadehjørner hænger
skilte, der sir' "kryds ved C" - kryds ved C
Og ingen socialister længere
er i hele gamle Dannevang at se.
De røde har vi helt bortjaget
- de ku' ikke tåle slaget.
Nu ligger der til sidst - der til sidst,
en enkelt smadret socialist.

Lad nu de røde få at mærke,
at du har været til ST fest - ST fest.
Lad dine sorte støvler sværte,
tag din stålhjelm på
og spænd din skrårem fast.
Vi ses i grønne uniformer,
stik imod de rødes normer,
en socialist er sød, ja han er sød,
men aller først når han er død.

Det er dem, vi stræber efter!
Statens magtbegær
Besvarer vi med: "Laissez faire!".

Vi er de nykonservative,
vi har frihed som vort mål!
Og den frihed vil forblive
til vor død forsvaret med det blanke stål!
Så vi har skabt Den Sorte Skole,
Hvor vi hylder den parole:
Dronning, Land og Gud!
- Og alle socialister ud!

Lyder det ikke velkendt? Tilbage i 1930-erne og... for et par år siden...

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Hvis nogen har ledige 3½ timer til at hygge sig med Pengenes Historie - er her en ganske berigende
oplevelse: The Money Masters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDlnM481Gcg

The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching plan, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole...Their secret is that they have annexed from governments,
monarchies, and republics the power to create the world's money..."

THE MONEY MASTERS is a 3 1/2 hour non-fiction, historical documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the world today.

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In similar category... Six episodes of the documentary 'The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of The World' are offered on the professor's own Youtube channel:

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of The World
By Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University.

1. The Ascent of Money Episode 1: Dreams of Avarice
2. The Ascent of Money Episode 2: Human Bondage
3. The Ascent of Money Episode 3: Blowing Bubbles
4. The Ascent of Money Episode 4: Risky Business
5. The Ascent of Money Episode 5: Safe as houses
6. The Ascent of Money Episode 6: Chimerica
7. Watch all episodes here

Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance.

Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labor. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. What's more, he reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind all history.

Through Ferguson's expert lens familiar historical landmarks appear in a new and sharper financial focus. Suddenly, the civilization of the Renaissance looks very different: a boom in the market for art and architecture made possible when Italian bankers adopted Arabic mathematics. The rise of the Dutch republic is reinterpreted as the triumph of the world's first modern bond market over insolvent Habsburg absolutism. And the origins of the French Revolution are traced back to a stock market bubble caused by a convicted Scot murderer.

With the clarity and verve for which he is known, Ferguson elucidates key financial institutions and concepts by showing where they came from. What is money? What do banks do? What's the difference between a stock and a bond? Why buy insurance or real estate? And what exactly does a hedge fund do?

This is history for the present. Ferguson travels to post-Katrina New Orleans to ask why the free market can't provide adequate protection against catastrophe. He delves into the origins of the subprime mortgage crisis.

Perhaps most important, The Ascent of Money documents how a new financial revolution is propelling the world's biggest countries, India and China, from poverty to wealth in the space of a single generation-an economic transformation unprecedented in human history.

Yet the central lesson of the financial history is that sooner or later every bubble bursts—sooner or later the bearish sellers outnumber the bullish buyers, sooner or later greed flips into fear. And that's why, whether you're scraping by or rolling in it, there's never been a better time to understand the ascent of money.

www.niallferguson.com