The System.

                            

The inequality in our world has become so extreme that now just 8 men own the equivalent of half the world's population (3.6 billion).

1 in 10 people survive on less than $2 per day.

The top 10% consume 60% of the world's resources.

And this is protected by the System.

Shareholders, banks, corporate executive bonuses, accounting procedures, financial privacy conventions, secrecy, collusion, and corruption.

All these things are contributing to inequality.

And if you challenge any of it you are told that it is privileged information protected by privacy laws.

Or you get a letter that is straight out of 1984 - Black/White, New Speak, The Ministry of Truth - designed to hide the truth.

And corporate executives claim ignorance whenever corruption or exploitation are discovered.

"We knew nothing about it."

This is done by subcontracting to companies with dubious business practices and asking no questions.

And no one seems ever to be charged.

But the major crime is tax avoidance.

Corporations transfer internal revenue to tax havens and pay no tax.

This costs poor countries $100 bn per year.

And our governments are cutting foreign aid claiming they don't have the money.

This is blatant corruption.

It is evil.

And it is untenable.

God save us from the System.


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