<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Dante-Gabryell Monson</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dante.monson@gmail.com">dante.monson@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 8:12 AM<br>Subject: inequality numbers : 3000 people in US owning 1000 times more then 270 million people in the US combined ?<br>To: <a href="mailto:sustainable_solidarity@yahoogroups.com">sustainable_solidarity@yahoogroups.com</a>, <a href="mailto:hc_ecology@yahoogroups.com">hc_ecology@yahoogroups.com</a>, <a href="mailto:econowmix@googlegroups.com">econowmix@googlegroups.com</a>, p2p-foundation <<a href="mailto:p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org">p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org</a>><br>
<br><br>how much "ownership" does that correspond to - in percentage of property ? in percentage of stock market ownership ? in percentage of ownership of the total world economy ? in money ? how is this money used ?<div>
<br></div><div>any other statistics you know revolving around this ?<div>regarding world population inequality between the top 0,001 percent, and 90 percent of the "least rich" population ?</div><div>what about "power" in terms of "decision making entities" ?</div>
<div>certain companies, or governments have huge powers, but who truly has an influence on them ?</div><div>is the 0,001 richest percent who owns 1000 times more then the bottom 90 percent in control of these companies and governments ?</div>
<div><br></div><div>As to equal the "richness" of the "3000 richest american people",</div><div>it would require 270 000 000 000 ( 270 billion ) people as rich as one of the ( so called ) richest populations on earth ?</div>
<div><br></div><div>How many times richer are the 3000 richest americans, compared to 3000 of the richest non-americans ?</div><div><br></div><div>In addition to link below, some googling leads me to the following pdf , in relation to "superclass" :</div>
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<div style="display: inline-block; width: 546px;"><div style="max-width: 42em;"><span style="color: rgb(118, 118, 118);"><cite style="color: rgb(14, 119, 74); font-style: normal;"><a href="http://jia.sipa.columbia.edu/files/jia/241-246_long_bookreviews.pdf" target="_blank">http://jia.sipa.columbia.edu/files/jia/241-246_long_bookreviews.pdf</a></cite></span></div>
<div style="max-width: 42em;"><span style="color: rgb(118, 118, 118);"><br></span></div></div></li></ol></div><div><div><div>How can one talk of a "market" when a few people own 1000 times more financial power then almost all the rest ? �</div>
<div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: arial; line-height: normal;"></span><span style="font-family: arial; line-height: normal;">Is it in their interest to keep or make people poor ?�</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: arial; line-height: normal;"></span><span style="font-family: arial; line-height: normal;">Not to become richer, but to keep control ?</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: arial; line-height: normal;"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: arial; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://cognitivedissonance.tumblr.com/post/2345941801/plutocracy-reborn-u-s-wealth-inequality-gap-largest" target="_blank">http://cognitivedissonance.tumblr.com/post/2345941801/plutocracy-reborn-u-s-wealth-inequality-gap-largest</a></span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"><br></span></div><div>excerpt :</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">�</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">In 1928, one year before the global economic collapse, the wealthiest .001% of the U.S. population owned 892 times more than 90% of the nation�s citizens. Today, the top .001% of the U.S. population owns</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">�</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"><a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080630/extreme_inequality" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(140, 140, 140);" target="_blank">976 times more than the entire bottom 90%</a></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">.</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">�</span></div>
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