Inequality Inc.
Het jaarlijkse ongelijkheidsrapport van Oxfam, "Inequality Inc.", dat samen met het World Economic Forum in Davos is gepubliceerd, onthult dat de rijkdom van de vijf rijkste mannen ter wereld sinds 2020 meer dan verdubbeld is, terwijl vijf miljard mensen armer zijn geworden. De razendsnelle stijging van extreme rijkdom is de afgelopen drie jaar geconsolideerd, terwijl het armoedeniveau in de wereld nog steeds hetzelfde is als voor de pandemie.
Inequality Inc.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Since 2020, the richest five men in the world have doubled their fortunes. During the same period, almost five billion people globally have become poorer. Hardship and hunger are a daily reality for many people worldwide. At current rates, it will take 230 years to end poverty, but we could have our first trillionaire in 10 years. A huge concentration of global corporate and monopoly power is exacerbating inequality economy-wide. Seven out of ten of the world’s biggest corporates have either a billionaire CEO or a billionaire as their principal shareholder.
Through squeezing workers, dodging tax, privatizing the state and spurring climate breakdown, corporations are driving inequality and acting in the service of delivering ever-greater wealth to their rich owners. To end extreme inequality, governments must radically redistribute the power of billionaires and corporations back to ordinary people.
A more equal world is possible if governments effectively regulate and reimagine the private sector.