""It is staggering that in the 21st century, half of the world's population own no more than a tiny elite whose numbers could all sit comfortably in a single train carriage," said Winnie Byanyima, Oxfam's executive director.
"'Widening inequality is creating a vicious circle where wealth and power are increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few, leaving the rest of us to fight over crumbs from the top table,' Byanyima said.
"The bottom half of the population — about 3.5 billion people — account for about $1.7 trillion, or about 0.7% of the world's wealth, according to the Oxfam report, titled 'Working for the Few.'"
Oxfam report highlights widening income gap between rich, poor - latimes.com
Seven-tenths of one percent of this world's wealth is owned by half of humanity.
Correlation or causation or cosmic greed?
Human nature.
Those that don't have it, either didn't have the ambition to go get it, as is the case in the US, as nothing except themselves is preventing them from doing so, OR elsewhere in the world, they live in a culture governed by relativism, which places the subjective in positions of power, that precludes them from exercising their natural right to do so, inevitably misinforming those individuals through fraudulent notions, that they're entitled to subsistent or in the worst case, they can't do for themselves and will only take what is given to them.
Now the simple truth is that just about any nature conservancy will tell you how destructive entitlement subsidies are. Particularly for creatures that can't reason soundly.
It's not truly not even a debatable point.
If human nature isn't a debatable point, what is?
"At the core of every social, political, and economic system is a picture of human nature (to paraphrase 20th-century columnist Walter Lippmann).
"The suppositions we begin with—the ways in which that picture is developed—determine the lives we lead, the institutions we build, and the civilizations we create.
"They are the foundation stone.
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Three Views of Human Nature
"During the 18th century—a period that saw the advent of modern capitalism—there were several different currents of thought about the nature of the human person. Three models were particularly significant.
"One model was that humans, while flawed, are perfectible.
"A second was that we are flawed, and fatally so; we need to accept and build our society around this unpleasant reality.
"A third view was that although human beings are flawed, we are capable of virtuous acts and self-government—that under the right circumstances, human nature can work to the advantage of the whole."
What's your choice?
Human Nature and Capitalism ? The American Magazine
