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We have to act. Writing about it can’t be enough.. we have to provide easy to follow steps on how to fight back, over and over and over again. Outrage has to be maintained and then acted upon. What can be done? questions
Highlights
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in the year 2021, there was a 9.4 percent surge in income for the top 1 percent, averaging CAD$579,000, and this doesn’t even account for the considerable spike in capital gains.
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When the Panama Papers leaked in 2016, they told the story — in over eleven million documents — of offshore holdings, tax havens, shady dealings, and trillions of dollars in wealth hidden away by the most powerful people on the planet, politicians included. Some of the hoarding was legal. Some of it wasn’t. But the distinction almost didn’t matter. The rich were getting away with it either way, exploiting a global finance system of their making or pushing its boundaries, confident in their ability to elude legal consequences or successfully fight any charges that might arise.
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While the Panama Papers did elicit a momentary shock, it was a fleeting and largely apathetic response. “My god!” we said. “Trillions! Can you believe it?” Of course, we could believe it. The papers confirmed what anyone moderately attuned to global affairs already knew about the rich. On balance, the collective reaction worldwide was a nonchalant “ho hum,” and swiftly, we moved on.
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We need to rediscover our collective outrage over structural economic exploitation and inequality — and we need to organize a material response.
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In short, we need mass politics.
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These stories are evidence of the crime — not a literal crime, most of the time, because the law is written by and for the rich — but a moral crime.