A closer look
Recent economic reports from global financial institutions have repeatedly confirmed that the richest one percent of the global population currently hoards roughly half of all the total wealth existing on the entire planet, leaving the remaining ninety-nine percent of humanity to violently scrap over the leftovers in a staggering concentration of resources that means a handful of obscenely wealthy individuals possess more economic power than entire continents, comfortably watching their net worth multiply while regular working-class citizens have to crowdfund their emergency insulin prescriptions on the internet, representing the kind of dystopian wealth disparity that traditionally precedes the invention of the guillotine, yet we just quietly accept it as a normal feature of the economy while binge-watching shows about megayachts
