[news] Meet the Global Ruling Class: The Billionaires and How They Made It

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

What is repeatedly demonstrated...is that the key factor leading to the quantum leap in wealth from millionaires to billionaires was the vast privatization and subsequent de-nationalization of lucrative public enterprises...Countries of 'surging billionaires' produce burgeoning poverty, submerging living standards. The making of billionaires means the unmaking of civil society, the weakening of social solidarity, protective social legislation, pensions, vacations, public health programs and education.

  


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