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发帖数: 38600 | 1 http://www.marketwatch.com/story/capitalism-is-killing-americas
Yes, capitalism is working ... for the Forbes Global Billionaires whose
ranks swelled from 322 in 2000 to 1,826 in 2015. Billionaires control the
vast majority of the world’s wealth, 67 billionaires already own half the
world’s assets; by 2100 we’ll have 11 trillionaires, while American worker
income has stagnated for a generation.
But for the vast majority of the world, capitalism is a failure. Over a
billion live on less than two dollars a day. In his “Capital in the Twenty-
First Century,” economist Thomas Piketty warns the inequality gap is toxic,
dangerous. As global population explodes from 7 billion to 10 billion by
2050, food production will deteriorate. Pope Francis adds, “Inequality is
the root of social ills,” fueling more hunger, revolutions, wars.
For years we’ve been asking: Why does the capitalist brain blindly drive
down this irrational path of self-destruction? We found someone who
brilliantly explains why free market capitalism is hell-bent on destroying
itself and the world along with it: Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel,
author of the new best seller, “What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of
Markets,” and his earlier classic, “Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do
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发帖数: 38600 | 2 Our morality is now for sale to the highest bidder |
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