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Jan Penfrat (ilumium@eupolicy.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 16:29:27 JST Jan Penfrat

"The collective fortune of #billionaires rose by $2.7bn a day, while some of the world’s poorest became poorer still. Between 2020 and 2023, the five richest men on Earth doubled their #wealth.
Billionaire wealth impoverishes us all: astonishingly, each of them produces, on average, a million times more #carbon dioxide than the average global citizen in the bottom 90%. Billionaires are a blight on the planet."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/31/brazil-global-tax-billionaires-super-rich
#TaxTheRich #G20 #brazil
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  Who is brave enough to back Brazil’s global tax on billionaires? The answer will define our future | George Monbiot
  
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  It would raise $250bn to help offset some of the damage the super-rich cause. Yet they’ll do everything to stop it in its tracks, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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