While the world, at large, has an incredible amount of wealth – that wealth besides not being evenly distributed, is skewed so dramatically to the superrich, that hundreds of millions upon millions of people suffer from extreme poverty; along with the inconvenient fact that what we so see in many western nations, is that not only is there a stubborn amount of people still below the poverty line, but also that those of the middle class are typically themselves feeling more and more pressure on being able to sustain the relatively little of worth and value that they can truly call their own.
The superrich are extremely skilled at making money, as well as in avoiding fair and appropriate taxation to such, and when that government, of, for, and by the people is really just a front, for a government that for all practical purposes is really of, for, and by the superrich, then the end result is going to be what we so see today in nations, such as the United States of America. One would think, that in the land of opportunity, and of liberty, that the government that so determined that a progressive income tax was necessary in order to redistribute monies from the rich back to that government, that provided these very successful people and corporations with the opportunity to make those riches, in the first place, would thus make sure to see that such taxation would be robust and effective in its application, but that isn’t the case at all.
As reported by Oxfam.org, “The richest 1 percent grabbed nearly two-thirds of all new wealth worth $42 trillion created since 2020, almost twice as much money as the bottom 99 percent of the world’s population.” This is clearly indicative that wealth creation in this world, has essentially been “gamed” by those that are the richest and most powerful people and organizations in it. Such success could only come about when governments of nations are themselves either part and parcel of those superrich and powerful people, or have effectively been “captured” themselves by the superrich as well as its powerful corporations.
A world in which the superrich have everything, and the balance so remaining, must be divvied up by the remainder of the population, at large, is not only going to be an unfair world, but it is going to be, by definition, a world of unease, civil unrest, violence, and revolution. Most people do not begrudge another for their success – but they do begrudge a construct in which the game is fixed in the favor of a small cadre of superrich individuals as well as super powerful corporations.
The superrich spend far too much time and energy trying to justify to others, that the wealth that they so have, has been mainly created by their hard work and overall genius. Whether or not this is true, misses the point, which is that a world in which only a few have so much, and the balance of the population, has so little, reflects a society in terminal decline, and not one of success or satisfaction. Recognize this well, the biggest crybabies in the world, are the superrich, for they get all up in arms, whenever their wealth is challenged by fair taxation, fair play, and a reconfiguring of the business world, to assure fair and robust competition. The fact of the matter is that the superrich don’t want to change a thing, because they already have everything – which is why things must change.