No, wealth isn’t created at the top. It is merely devoured there | Rutger Bregman
by Rutger Bregman from on (#2HKB5)
Bankers, pharmaceutical giants, Google, Facebook ... a new breed of rentiers are at the very top of the pyramid and they're sucking the rest of us dry
This piece is about one of the biggest taboos of our times. About a truth that is seldom acknowledged, and yet - on reflection - cannot be denied. The truth that we are living in an inverse welfare state.
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