

Oxfam noted that less than 3.5 percent of EU billionaires’ combined wealth – roughly €84 billion – would be sufficient to eradicate extreme poverty globally. Oxfam identifies a key problem in Europe in the disproportionate influence of wealthy individuals on lobbying. As a result, affluent actors can shape political decisions in their favour in ways that poorer segments of society cannot.



















I was thinking this sounds a lot like the Epic of Gilgamesh.