The 500 richest people in the world have more income than the 416 million poorest citizens, he assures the UNDP. A United Nations Department reviews and monitors the level of human development. Only five hundred. And that 10% of the world’s richest treasures more than half of the profits of the world, while 40% of the world population only manages a small 5% of revenues. Soon to be divided among too many, because that figure is 2 500 million citizens. Other information enlightening. According to the Congressional Budget Office of the U.S., 3 million richest Americans earn more than 166 million Americans are less fortunate.
During 2006, the European Union countries that share the euro as their currency, corporate profits were no less than 40% of gross domestic product. More curiosities. In Spain, the executive members of boards of large companies earn 3 million per year. And the average income of non-executive directors is EUR 253,000 years to attend an average of eight or nine annual meetings of the board. Rested and well-paid job. But in Spain as well, two out of ten people barely survive below the poverty line, according to the Survey of Living Conditions of the National Institute of Statistics. And about 25% of employees is less than 12,000 euros per year to achieve even when in cities like Madrid or Barcelona, a popular restaurant menu ranges from eight to twelve euros.
A This is called inequality. As bad as poverty pure and simple. For example, Latin America has only 4% of the world’s wealth, while the U.S., the European Union, Japan and Australia 88% treasure. Helmut Schmidt, who was chancellor of Germany, said for years that the benefits of today are tomorrow’s investment and jobs after tomorrow. Nothing is further from the truth. For many years, what happens is that those responsible for the largest companies that only care about the value of their stock rise and rise. And it also happens that bulging salaries of managers are fired. For employees, moderation is the key word. They say that absolute poverty refers something in some countries, but inequality is strengthened and moves everywhere with absolute effrontery. Perhaps for this reason, while enriching a few million, the UNDP claims that over 460 million citizens of 18 countries have worsened their living from the nineties. Have ceased to have a quality life, something much more important that the phantasmagoria of “quality of life.” And, according to the International Labour Organization, there are still 1,400 million workers worldwide earning less than two dollars a day, and 550 million, less than a dollar. How can you live decently on less than $ 1 or $ 2 a day? How do you live? Inequality is so dangerous, so deadly, such as poverty. Excellent breeding ground for all the resentment and violence. And moving nonstop for a couple of decades. Why they will want more money, more wealth, those few thousands? Even if a few million, will always be very few in total Earth. Perhaps they should consult psychotherapists make good their fears emerge, perhaps the origin of predatory conduct. Inequality and poverty are the result of capitalism without control or restraint. It was John Maynard Keynes, a British economist, who was not exactly left-wing activist who advocated for seven decades that a capitalist system without control or self-destruct limits, would destroy the world.