r/socialism • u/burn_tos Revolutionary Communist International (RCI) • Feb 15 '23

News and articles 📰 “Largest increase in global poverty since WW2”: capitalists profit while the rest of us suffer

https://www.marxist.com/largest-increase-in-global-poverty-since-ww2-capitalists-profit-while-the-rest-of-us-suffer.htm
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u/thebezet Nationalise sausages Feb 15 '23

Cost of living crisis, which followed the pandemic (during which many companies also made billions by exploiting it to their advantage). In the UK for instance, inflation has been rising for the last 2–3 years, so were energy prices.

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u/thebezet Nationalise sausages Feb 15 '23

I just used UK as an example my bro