> elites ruling the world
> the privileged elites at the top
Who are these elites who "rule the world"? Blaming groups can be divisive and unproductive.
Are you referring to oligarchs like George Soros, who crashed the British pound as a social experiment? Epstein? Bezos? The Tech giants? They are influencers, sure, but not rulers. It's easy to go from conspiracy theories about elites to blaming entire races for our woes. Scapegoating groups is a slippery slope that never ends well. But we don't really have world-rulers who decide the quality of human life. Rather, we have debates about how to balance personal freedom, security and intervention.
In the US, since President Truman, nearly a billion people have been brought out of extreme poverty. Rather than scapegoating groups, we should be examining this success. For comparison, the UK, Canada and France lag behind, have higher inflation, less growth and higher cost of living. The Communist China of today uses a mixed market system and allows business ownership and enterprise, to compete with the West. The market has reduced misery.
On Ending Poverty:
www.economist.com/leaders/2013/06/01/towards-the-end-of-poverty
> the privileged elites at the top
Who are these elites who "rule the world"? Blaming groups can be divisive and unproductive.
Are you referring to oligarchs like George Soros, who crashed the British pound as a social experiment? Epstein? Bezos? The Tech giants? They are influencers, sure, but not rulers. It's easy to go from conspiracy theories about elites to blaming entire races for our woes. Scapegoating groups is a slippery slope that never ends well. But we don't really have world-rulers who decide the quality of human life. Rather, we have debates about how to balance personal freedom, security and intervention.
In the US, since President Truman, nearly a billion people have been brought out of extreme poverty. Rather than scapegoating groups, we should be examining this success. For comparison, the UK, Canada and France lag behind, have higher inflation, less growth and higher cost of living. The Communist China of today uses a mixed market system and allows business ownership and enterprise, to compete with the West. The market has reduced misery.
On Ending Poverty:
www.economist.com/leaders/2013/06/01/towards-the-end-of-poverty