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Davos begins. Our @Oxfam inequality paper out now.
Headlines:
We risk seeing biggest rise in inequality *on record*
Top 10 billionaires (men) half a trillion richer since March
Could take decade+ for billions of poorest people to recover from pandemic economic hit
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Millions have lost lives. Hundreds millions more have lost jobs & incomes. Across the world, the story is of billions of the poorest people being hardest hit. But it's a very, very different story at the very top. And these two stories are connected. 2/10pic.twitter.com/oYZsM9r5Ix
We have a profoundly unfair economic system. A system that's enabling a super-rich elite to amass unimaginable fortunes. While making it harder for billions of people in poverty to put food on the table - or get treatment when they're sick. And it's not just that. 3/10pic.twitter.com/i02eCeaub7
The economy is rigged against you if you're poor. But also if you're a woman or a girl. Or from a marginalized racial and ethnic group. Elitism, patriarchy and white supremacy is conspiring at the heart of our economy to divide our world and sow huge suffering. 4/10pic.twitter.com/oFchdfFWOt
Consider Afro-descendants in Brazil. They're 40% more likely to die of COVID19 than White people. 40%. Think about that In the US nearly 22,000 Black & Hispanic people would still be alive today if they experienced the same COVID19 mortality rates as White people. 22,000 5/10pic.twitter.com/P4PUw13oTg
We can't go on like this. The future can't be more of this.
@Oxfam we're calling for every government on the planet to explicitly commit to equality. And get working on it.
It means ending extreme economic inequality.
And abolishing racial & gender inequality altogether.
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We need an urgent pro-sustainability pro-equality policy mix.
It's common-sense for the 21st century.
Specifically?
Most urgently we need governments to ensure everyone has access to a COVID19 vaccine, a #PeoplesVaccine, and to financial help if they lose their income.
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We need governments to invest in public services and low carbon sectors to create millions of new jobs. We need to ensure everyone has access to a quality education, health, and social care. Publicly-funded, publicly-delivered, quality universal public services. 8/10pic.twitter.com/2xoDjlecD7
And we need to tax the richest people & corporations progressively to pay for this. What offers some hope? A few governments showing what can be done. New Zealand's wellbeing approach. Sierra Leone on education. Costa Rica's universal health system. South Korea. And more 9/10pic.twitter.com/P2o2qILfaz
Let's ask what we really want as a society. Such extreme inequality is not inevitable. It's a policy and a political choice. Governments. Business. We, the people. We can decide a different way. Let's build economies that work for us all, not just the privileged few. ENDSpic.twitter.com/J9O0taIJ1d
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