Total billionaire wealth in the EU reached €2.4 trillion by late November, exceeding Italy's entire GDP of €2.2 trillion and approaching France's €2.9 trillion economy, a new Oxfam report found.
    • RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.caEnglish
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      29 minutes ago

      You’re suggesting we burn our respective countries to the ground, full on civil war and complete destruction, fracture of civil society, starvation and economic collapse, with no guarantees about who, when or what will step into that maelstrom of human suffering, other than your assurances that it will be better than what we have now.

      Sorry, but I’m skeptical that you have a reasonable way forward.

    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      51 minutes ago

      Why would you salt the ashes if you intend to rebuild? You’re aware that that makes land inarable for generations, right?