• Billionaire wealth surged by over $300 billion in the first month of the year. It would take 15 million workers an entire year to make as much money.
  • Since G20 Finance Ministers agreed to work together to effectively tax the super-rich in July 2024, billionaires have pocketed over $1 trillion in new wealth.
  • More than 50 organizations from across the world are urging G20 leaders to tax the super-rich to end extreme inequality, and invest in climate, environmental and social action.
  • @Valmond
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    12 days ago

    Potentially a reset of the hoarding.

    Better tax them but that doesn’t seems to be on the table any more.

    • @glimse
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      42 days ago

      … They’d just trade in their riches for the new currency. Billionaires aren’t holding their wealth in cash

      • @Valmond
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        11 day ago

        Yeah but it could be an inflationnary currency for example.

    • @gibmiser
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      12 days ago

      Who will control it? Will people with money be able to buy it outright?

      Not going to help