When you look at the Koch brothers, who make three million dollars an hour on their dividends alone, … - Henry Giroux

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The truth of the matter is that all we have to do is live long enough and we will suffer.

Henry Giroux

When you look at the Koch brothers, who make three million dollars an hour on their dividends alone, you begin to get a sense of what we're talking about. The estimates now are that the upper 1% control something like 40% of all wealth. Eighty families in the world control as much as half the world's population. These figures are being produced every day. We need to put a human face to these figures. We need to make clear that something is being taken from the vast majority of people, and is causing an enormous amount of suffering.

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