Russell Brand – US Trillionaires and world poverty.

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US trillionaires ($1,000,000,000) (A trillion being a thousand billion) have now accumulated wealth exceeding $50 trillion.

It is estimated that you could end world hunger for a mere $30 Billion.

What sort of morality is it that creates a system of such immortality where a tiny number of people own more than they can possibly need while billions starve?

How can that possibly be fair?

Fawzi Ibrahim says that we humans face a stark choice:

We save the planet and ditch capitalism

Or we save capitalism and ditch the planet.

I don’t think he is far wrong.

Capitalism, with its rampant selfish greed, is ripping up the planet, throwing people into war and poverty, breeding fundamentalism, and all for the sake of a tiny number of people. 80 people own half the world!

I think Russell is making me agitated! I hate the way the planet is being trashed.

8 thoughts on “Russell Brand – US Trillionaires and world poverty.”

  1. He is right. It’s just so…I don’t even have the word…that we could end hunger with 30 billion and they can’t let go of that much? People counting their trillions? Come on! We are talking about the planet here. What will you do with your trillions when you can’t live here anymore?

    1. Immoral, obscene, scandalous – the words do not go near to describing the horror of it. When you look at the conditions that some people endure and know that we have the means to rectify it all without really making a difference to the super-wealthy. The injustice is mind boggling.

  3. Wouldn’t mind if the trickle-down theory worked, but these people have so much money they don’t spend it – just goes into hyper-inflating the housing market and wasteful speculation …

      1. Cue 60s reminiscence … when we were young we spent very little on clothes, used to kit ourselves out down the Army Surplus stores so we’d have money left over for records …

      2. That’s right. And putting triangles in our old jeans to make flares. Sewing on patches. I was lucky Liz used to make a lot of my clothes. She made me a jerkin out of chamois leathers that were for washing cars and all sorts od tunics out of bright Indian cotton bedspreads.
        Those were the days!

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