As a child, I never liked the game of Monopoly....just too long and methodical with one winner and so many broke losers. For me, the game's only saving graces were the free $200 for passing GO and the chance to play the game using the wooden milk bottle game piece.
A modern-day game of Monopoly is now being played out as recent figures reveal that the world currently has 3,028 billionaires whose collective wealth has grown to an astonishing 14% of world GDP. In Canada, the wealthiest one percent of Canadians increased their share of total Canadian wealth from 18% to 26% between 2010 and 2019 while the wealth of every other income group in Canada declined.
I wonder where we're headed.
I used to watch Downton Abbey and cringed as I observed the upstairs-downstairs class system, the tea pourers versus the tea drinkers.
But really, aren't we all part of that two-class system now?
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