Inequality Is the Price of Corporate Greed
Dividend payments to rich shareholders have grown 14 times faster than workers’ wages. This explosion in inequality is not an accident — it’s the result of an economy designed to reward corporate greed.
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Max Lawson is head of inequality policy at Oxfam International.
Dividend payments to rich shareholders have grown 14 times faster than workers’ wages. This explosion in inequality is not an accident — it’s the result of an economy designed to reward corporate greed.
Research shows that only a drastic reduction in inequality can guarantee both a decent life for all and the future of the planet. In other words, to save the world, we have to tax the rich.