Issues: Economy
There is a difference between wealth and prosperity.
While prosperity can apply to an entire community, great wealth applies to individuals and families and always requires that many others live in poverty.
Money is actually a system of symbolic exchange tokens. That's it.
Greta Thunberg, environmental activist spoke at the UN January 2019.
How Dare You! "You have stolen my dreams, my childhood with your empty words, yet I'm one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth." "How Dare You! For more than thirty years the science has been crystal clear. How Dare You continue to look away and come here saying that you are doing enough when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight?"
"The United States is one of the richest countries in the world (2nd behind Kuwait).
In the United States at the end of 2001, 10% of the population owned 71% of the wealth, and the top 1% controlled 38%.
On the other hand, the bottom 40% owned less than 1% of the nation's wealth."
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