"I've been raped more times than I've had consensual sex in the last year," said a homeless woman named Rebecca. "I've been outside in the cold and had some guy offer me shelter, and the next thing I know, I wake up, and he's rapin."
Billionaires as a group now account for 1.7% of total wealth worldwide, but in certain countries, this figure can exceed 4.0%, showing significant wealth concentration.
The cracks in the international order have been visible since the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, and intervention in Libya, culminating in the current war in Ukraine.
A former new-age traveller who made his money in green energy and has donated to Just Stop Oil, he is part of the Patriotic Millionaires organisation who think it is high time people like them are asked to increase their contributions.
"Argentina's economic situation reflects a dual society, where a privileged minority enjoys a consumer boom while middle and lower classes struggle with spending cuts. This inequality is exacerbated by a strong peso and cheap dollar that benefits affluent citizens."
"In an epoch when the risk of species extinction, war and ever-growing geopolitical imbalance loom over our future, Inequalities proposes to look again at the sphere of human relations and the increasing inequalities running through it."
"Nearly 30 years ago, the collapse of Japan's bubble economy... triggered a wave of corporate bankruptcies and stagnation of Japanese society... it was an era when many were robbed of hope."
As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolutely autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality, no solution will be found for the world's problems.
The study published in PNAS, examining 53,000 houses from over 1,000 archaeological sites, reveals that inequality arose generations after the transition from hunter-gatherer societies.