Europes wealthiest countries have high child poverty rates

DessertStorms, 6 months ago

✨Capitalism!✨

squaresinger, 6 months ago

That’s the reason why average wealth doesn’t reflect the general living experience of the public.

Without London the UK would be ranking much lower on the average wealth scale.

taladar, 6 months ago

Not to mention that a lot of the visible wealth in places like the City of London is probably also financed with money that appears in none of these statistics.

tb_, 6 months ago

This is the US, but it’s a “fun” graph to look at: statista.com/…/wealth-distribution-for-the-us/

The top 0.1% possesses 10 times as much wealth as the bottom 50%

That’s 3.33 thousand people owning much, much more than 167 million combined.

qyron, 6 months ago

What else is new?

It is easier for more well off individuals to access benefits than those who truly require it.

Systems are often hard to navigate, terribly bureaucratic and staffed with uninterested and often malicious and callous individuals.

Paired with policies veering towards cutting off social benefits and taxation fairness, those who are already vulnerable get even more vulnerable.

We are as strong as the weakest among us.

And this is not a call to abandon the weak. Is the reminder that the stronger must care for and build up the weaker.

taladar, 6 months ago

We are as strong as the weakest among us.

And this is not a call to abandon the weak. Is the reminder that the stronger must care for and build up the weaker.

This is what I don’t really get about a lot of the capitalists and neo-liberals, most of these measures to significantly increase the quality of life of the poor and education and health are not that expensive but would result in a much stronger and more productive overall society. That is something that even people who don’t care about the moral aspect should want.

Lemonyoda, 6 months ago

But stronger society equals less Power for the rich. Why would they do that?

Ofc, If everything is fucked (climate i.e.), they could Just lift Off to Alpha centauri… Or can they…

qyron, 6 months ago

Greed cancels logic.

albert180, 6 months ago

Well here in Germany conservatives and the liberal party are whining and spewing hate over a new social aid aimed to lift poor children out of poverty.

qyron, 6 months ago

Politians should try to live for a year on minimum wage.