to think we could take'em?

[AnotherEffingOrangeRevel]

There has - rightly, I think - been a lot of talk recently about the fact that half of the world's wealth is owned by 62 mega-rich people. The thing is, there's more than 7 billion of the rest of us - I fancy our chances. What are we waiting for? I'll go for Buffet....

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/the-62-people-who-are-as-wealthy-as-the-poorest-half-of-humanity-combined-a6818766.html

[BusyCee]

I'm with you! Have had very little sleep recently (thanks, dd...) so am feeling up for both a fight and a cruise round the Med in someone else's 'liberated' floating gin palace.

Where do we gather? What time? Do I need to bring my own pitch fork?

[WorraLiberty]

How big is the buffet?

What's for afters?

[abbsismyhero]

any wine? im up for it!

[AnotherEffingOrangeRevel]

Ah, great. I have to admit my plans are hazy. Are pitchforks a bit passé?

[AnotherEffingOrangeRevel]

How big is the buffet?

About this big. I'm not scared.

(and we'll have soufflés for afters)

[TheCatsMeow]

I'm in. Start the revolution

[MidniteScribbler]

I'll come on board.

[AnotherEffingOrangeRevel]

Right, we're nearly a tenth of the way to outnumbering them...

[MissFlight]

Yay, Revolution, count me in

[TitClash]

Did someone say there was a buffet? Count me in. Can I dress up as a pirate? I can sew, I'm making a Jolly Roger.

[AnotherEffingOrangeRevel]

Excellent, excellent. Yes, fancy dress is very welcome. There will definitely be balloon art.

Just a few words to get our mouths frothing a little more...

1. Tax dodging, on an inconceivable scale, is simply accepted by most.
   
   
2. Suffering by the world's poorest is in fact totally unnecessary. The world is not lacking in wealth.
   
   
3. Mushroom vol-au-vents.

[stubbornstains]

I'm waving a flaming brand while making appropriate mob type noises.

[whattodowiththepoo]

Il sign up to fight with the billionaires.

[whattodowiththepoo]

On the side of the billionaires.

[RudeElf]

I'm in.

How much would we all get if the world's wealth was divvied up evenly?

[CakeNinja]

Is anyone making sausage rolls?

[stubbornstains]

Mind you, hasn't Warren Buffet himself said that the present system of income distribution is pretty wrong?

Perhaps we should occupy a tax haven instead? Although (as this sadly slightly dull) programme shows, even when you get to some where like the Cayman Islands, there's no there, there:

www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2016/03/britains-trillion-pound-paradise

(the most notable bit is how it shows that quite a lot of people in the Cayman Islands themselves are living in abject poverty. So who the fuck is all this offshore wealth benefiting? See OP, I suppose)

[stubbornstains]

Mind you rude elf, if all the world's wealth was divvied up evenly, perhaps us comfortable westerners would end up getting less? Just a thought...

[InkleWinkle]

I loooove mushroom vol-au-vents!!
Count me in!

Will there be champagne also??

[MissFlight]

Piss off whattodo and start your own 'arse licking the billionaires.' thread

[cornflowers]

I think Buffet has signed the Giving Pledge hasn't he? Most of his wealth will be given to charities/good causes when he dies?

[Gobbolino6]

If there's champagne, I'm in.

[RedToothBrush]

So how much would the billionaires give me to fit on their side compared with how much I'd get if I fought on the rebels side and won?

^ This is your problem as well as apathy and indifference.

The Rebel Forces better have good X Wing Fighters.

[GiddyOnZackHunt]

I've got some sausage rolls cooked and ready to go cake. Sainsburys' Basics.

I'll get my balaclava and kaffiyeh (sp?)

[RudeElf]

Mind you rude elf, if all the world's wealth was divvied up evenly, perhaps us comfortable westerners would end up getting less? Just a thought.

I think most* of us could manage on less

*those with additional needs/health issues excepted.