From bae08f5e743938ae4df01023d2f6cc442be7edfc70120b748e2bc0c08b075ac8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicholas Johnson Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Subject: Convert refs: disgustingly-rich --- content/entry/disgustingly-rich.md | 7 +------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'content/entry/disgustingly-rich.md') diff --git a/content/entry/disgustingly-rich.md b/content/entry/disgustingly-rich.md index 2a9111f..25bcfbe 100644 --- a/content/entry/disgustingly-rich.md +++ b/content/entry/disgustingly-rich.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ title: "Disgustingly Rich" date: 2021-08-19T00:00:00 draft: false -makerefs: false --- With income and wealth inequality at its peak, a few billionaires now own more wealth than half the world's population. What are they spending all that money on? Well, the world's richest man is using it to rocket himself into space and toss skittles around in zero-g. Meanwhile... @@ -15,11 +14,7 @@ With income and wealth inequality at its peak, a few billionaires now own more w * Addiction to smartphones and social media worsens as big tech uses its power to brainwash the masses. * The poor get poorer while the rich get phenomenally richer. * Poor children are forced to work in sweatshops instead of going to school. -* 29 other top-level issues as chosen by the UN[1]. +* [29 other top-level issues as chosen by the UN](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_global_issues). * A thousand other issues that won't fit on this list. Since the billionaires' greed is largely responsible for many of these crises in the first place, we ought to take back their wealth through a wealth tax and use it to solve the problems they created. - - -Link(s): -[1: List of Global Issues](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_global_issues) -- cgit v1.2.3