cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/57305272
Total billionaire wealth in the EU reached €2.4 trillion by late November, exceeding Italy’s entire GDP of €2.2 trillion and approaching France’s €2.9 trillion economy, a new Oxfam report found.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20260118190308/https://euobserver.com/health-and-society/ara3abf5ee
He also assumed automation would be helpful for the working class because he thought it would mean we wouldn’t have to work to survive. I don’t think he saw billionaires just breeding the working class for wars or organ harvesting and completely replacing their labor with robots. I guess he didn’t really think about how low they will always stoop.