{"id":151096,"date":"2019-11-01T18:42:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T18:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=151096"},"modified":"2019-11-01T18:43:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T18:43:00","slug":"billionaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2019\/11\/01\/billionaires\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/nov\/01\/viral-billionaires-super-rich-exist\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/nov\/01\/viral-billionaires-super-rich-exist<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is difficult to even contemplate what a massive sum of money a billion pounds is: if I had saved a million pounds in today\u2019s money every year since the Battle of Hastings, I would still be short. No one \u2013 however smart or hardworking \u2013 is worth a billion pounds or more. People only become billionaires because successive governments have organised our economic system, from taxes to property law to rights at work, to benefit the rich \u2013 often at the expense of the poor. In other words, their creation is a policy choice \u2013 or a choice not to make policies that distribute wealth more fairly.<\/p>\n<p>How is it acceptable that a country that can afford to have billionaires can also afford to have 8 million people living in poverty in families where at least one person is in work, 4 million of them children? &#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fdiana.stone1%2Fposts%2F10156525381311129&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"605\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/nov\/01\/viral-billionaires-super-rich-exist &#8220;It is difficult to even contemplate what a massive sum of money a billion pounds is: if I had saved a million pounds in today\u2019s money every year since the Battle of Hastings, I would still be short. No one \u2013 however smart or hardworking \u2013 is worth a billion pounds or more. People &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2019\/11\/01\/billionaires\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Billionaires<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-Dj2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":179120,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/07\/24\/groundhog-day-anybody\/","url_meta":{"origin":151096,"position":0},"title":"Groundhog Day anybody?","author":"diana Stone","date":"July 24, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Diana Stones Glasscage \u00b7 She Was A Lady Of Lesiure A certain slow rhythm has crept into my life and established itself. 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