Next, the person would find that his or her country is richer than it has ever been. But the government, after going on a privatisation spree for decades, is poorer and holds fewer assets. This means the government is also deprived of adequate wealth or capital to meet an economic shock like that caused by the covid-19 pandemic and is forced to borrow from private sources, adding to the inheritor’s debt. On the other hand, the remaining half of the world's population has become richer; it owns more wealth and earns more income than the country itself. To put it in perspective, global wealth is now concentrated in the hands of a few private individuals, who have, effectively, become the economic rulers of the world.
Such a situation also prevailed in the early 20th century and the periods before it, when western imperialism was at its peak and democracy was not as widespread. However, shockingly, if the inheritor today belongs to the poorest half of the world, his or her income is half of what his or her ancestor in the same population group would have had, way back in 1820. On the other hand, the world’s richest 1 per cent now controls more than one-third of the global wealth generated since the 1990s. In fact, the number of billionaires rose to new records in 2020—the year of the pandemic. Thus, the inheritor is convinced that “the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer”, a trend that has prevailed for a while now.
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة December 16, 2021 من Down To Earth.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة December 16, 2021 من Down To Earth.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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