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The world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes from $405 billion to $869 billion since 2020 —at a rate of $14 million per hour— while nearly five billion people have been made poorer, reveals a new Oxfam report on inequality and global corporate power. If current trends continue, the world will have its first trillionaire within a decade but poverty won’t be eradicated for another 229 years.

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in reply to M. Grégoire

@M. Grégoire @Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston The post agrees with you. The statement "poverty won’t be eradicated for another 229 year" implies that poverty will eventually be eradicated, which implies that they extrapolated from a development where poverty is decreasing.