Well John actually
the global poverty rate has been in sharp decline thanks to free market capitalism, not that you would know or care anything about that as long as you can get the newest and shiniest Apple products NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW
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So the 1% of the world that is the wealthiest has had the wealth they own triple in the past 30 years. Wow that's quite interesting. That certainly couldn't just be a scare factoid that doesn't actually support the position its trying to be used to support...could it?
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Now I wonder. What about the wealth of the 99%? Has that increased?
Is that an unreasonable increase in 30 years? With compound interest, Your money will triple in 28.8 years with an interest rate of just 4%, which is pretty poor return. GDP is a very flawed measure of economic activity but it is a useful estimator, so lets see what world GDP has done in the past 30 years.
Dec 31, 2016 - 75.54 Trillion USD
Dec 31, 1986 - 15.01 Trillion USD
http://www.multpl.com/world-gdp/table/by-year
Huh, look at that. World wide GDP has grown by 5 times its value 30 years ago, and the 1% wealth has only tripled.
Apparently the wealthiest 1% of the world can't beat the Dow Jones Industrial average.
December 31, 1986 1895.95
December 30, 2016 19,762.60
http://www.fedprimerate.com/dow-jones-industrial-average-history-djia.htm
You know, the world population is growing, which means the size of the wealthiest 1% is growing. I wonder by how much.
1987 - 5,021,085,089
2017 - 7,405,107,650
https://www.census.gov/population/international/data/worldpop/table_population.php
Look at that. The world population has increased by 50%, meaning the top 1% now includes more people than it did previously.
IN SUMMATION:
You don't need to be an idiot to chop off your dick and use it line a surgical wound you purposely keep from healing, but it definitely seems to help.