The rich are getting richer: Oxfam

[@Mallory-Malkovich]

It's fine if the rich get richer, but if the poor don't get richer too, the poor will turn on the rich. Happy, well fed people don't have revolutions. If you desire prosperity you should take care of your poor.

[@jimmorris2027]

Of course the rich are getting richer, that is how the system is designed.

[@Ridiculizer]

Oxscam.

[@Edit.Name.]

Arrogant organisation. Try working for them in their UK offices and you'll see how riddled they are with staff bullying

[@carmanyeung9030]

Ask all the charity CEO , directors, how much they are paid? What class they took for the flights?

[@firestormlivingsolutions]

This is a pathetic bit of propaganda. ..Canada's growth is pathetic but at least you aren't starving in Africa....we need our Trump

[@dstorm7752]

The point of capitalism is to pull all people up -- NOT to equalize everybody.

[@caselbravo]

Did you watch the video ?

[@TheBentwrist]

I would take anything Oxfam says with a pinch of salt.

[@jamesfarrell7465]

Or maybe a whale-sized block of salt!

[@Joeafterdark]

Investagate Friends Of The CBC and the Trudeau Foundation along with the Canadian chapter ot the Clinton Foundation . Please look into Oxfam and Clinton Foundation in Haiti .

[@poparrow9416]

The billionaires also created jobs too,oxfam should fight poverty not inequality.

[@Cod4Wii]

Inequality leads to poverty

[@wtt8921]

The US want this and love capitalism. They hate communism and socialism. The American people must accept that this is what they wanted all along. They should accept their fate.

[@robynsjp]

Oxfam ? Before lecturing society, Oxfam should deal better with Oxfam abuse in Haiti.

[@dmanm85]

Funny, 15 years ago, this was somewhat of a wives tale or a conspiracy that was flung around with a few drinks. Now it's mainstream media.

[@BaldWhiteguy]

"We must protect the rights of minorities, and the rich are always fewer in number than the poor." - *Sir John A. Macdonald*

[@JimWalsh-rl5dj]

Oxfam for most of my adult life has been a corrupt and ploitical organisation and I am older thaan God`s dog. Ask how much their CEO`s in each country earn.

[@jamesfarrell7465]

I am a middle class American. None of these talking heads explains why, if the "rich" get richer, that's a problem for the rest of us. I have no issue with anyone getting more wealthy provided they're doing it through honest means. If someone gets more wealthy through honest work or a great idea it has no effect on me or anyone else who isn't wealthy. They didn't steal their wealth from me and it's not as though there's a limited supply of money and what they earned meant there's less available for me. In fact they might have created something which benefitted me, thereby becoming more wealthy. I applaud that.OXFAM and CCPA make arguments that proceed from one simple idea that they dare not mention. That is this: most of the non-wealthy are envious of the wealthy. So, their solution is to take $$ from the wealthy and give those $$ to the non-wealthy. Or to prevent people from becoming wealthy. Experience tells us these plans never work.

[@myam.409]

If that’s all you got from this video and this topic, then you need to re-watch it…

[@mohammadaga3288]

she looks like Scorsese

[@reginawright8082]

Isleys

[@irenedavo3768]

When will Oxfam help Jigger Victims in Kenya? Watch video of Jim Nduruchi called Andrew

[@TheStones1965]

Do loto tickets sell more when the jackpot is $60,000,000 or $1,000,000? Will the winner give $58,000,000 to food banks? Not likely. Everybody wants to be rich and complain when the rich get richer. If your kids have iphone 7s and you shop at Walmart and buy from Amazon and elect a billionaire as President who’s making the rich richer???

[@JeanineH]

DUH ...

[@pewpewlazers5702]

I don’t think people can become rich...can you imagine everyone trying to live like Americans or even Europeans? We would need several Earths just to sustain ourselves. Maybe if our governments would come together and try to find resources in our solar system we could all benefit. But instead the 1% are creating their own space programs so they can benefit from it and own all the gold again.

[@niolayos699]

Eugene Levy???

[@krist7697]

I say put your money where your mouth is . I'm sure these to aren't poor. Start giving most of your own money away and live at the same level as everyone else before you start stealing it from other people

[@ignacioleikis1784]

Why the dislikes?

[@GAMINGFOREXPERTS]

Well start crypto mining...

[@dawni843]

I am not rich by any means... but hopefully i can be rich one day... But i dont see why it is wrong for rich to get richer...they must have worked hard and earned it... and that is where i want to go

[@tugo7]

DAWOON LEE exactly what I was thinking

[@williamdeschamps4032]

Try not eating for a week, or sleeping outside for a month during the winter, and then come back and comment.

[@tugo7]

William Deschamps That still doesn't explain whats wrong with the rich getting richer. I'm not trying to be rude I just generally want to know whats so bad about it?

[@froesesp]

These corporations that get big tax breaks and other perks are not fair.

[@dawni843]

Steven Froese why not work hard and create a corporation then??

[@cabbagedestroyer1693]

Those who hate rich people are not hating them for injustice. They are hating them because of jealousy. The same people who talk about how unfair things are, would be the first to get fancy new clothes, new cars, ordering food, new phones and laptop. Ever wandered why over 30% of people who wins lottery goes into poverty within the first 2 years? Or 50% into poverty within 5 years?

[@firestormlivingsolutions]

2 % growth is pathetic when the USA will hit 5

[@mavaddat]

Read "Capital" by Picketty. Greater than 2% growth is economically impossible for industrially developed countries.

[@user-st2zc6pk7t]

Mavaddat Javid might want to do 5 seconds of research before making such a ludicrous statement.

[@mavaddat]

K reading Thomas Picketty's book "Capital" took a few hours. In every hour, there are sixty minutes. So in all, by your standards, I've done several hundred minutes of research into the matter.

[@mavaddat]

You are projecting, Jake Ralph. Just because you only read things you agree with already, that doesn't mean others do the same.

[@user-st2zc6pk7t]

Mavaddat Javid but your premise is clearly false. I simply looked up GDP growth for industrialized countries to disprove your assertion. Here's but one example www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/gdpnewsrelease.htm