Disturbing

I read something the other day that was reported by Reuters.com and published in the magazine,, "The Week."

It was a small article. An inch and a half column inches in newspaper lingo, but globally profound. To me it ought to be a headline in every paper and on every television newscast in the world.

Quote:

"The wealthiest 62 people now own as much as half the world's population - or 3.5 billion people--according to a new study by Oxfam. The wealth of the richest 62 people has risen 44-percent since 2010, while the wealth of the poorest 3.6 billion has fallen 41 percent during that time."

Note:

Oxfam is an international confederation of 17 organisations working in approximately 94 countries worldwide to find solutions to poverty and what it considers injustice around the world.

I don't know about you, but I am blown away by this statistic and even if half of it is true, then a plutrocracy has taken over the world and it was silent and secret and troublesome.