<![CDATA[ A maior transferência dos mais pobres para os mais ricos ]]>

We are witnessing yet another crazy period of money transfers from the poorest to the richest, which of course increases inequality. This is nothing new in recent history, but this could be the largest volume of money transferred from the most disadvantaged communities to billionaires. The development of neoliberal policies in the restructuring of the economic organization and the increasingly reduced taxes on capital and increased taxes on labor were decisive factors in this. All of this leads to the perfect cocktail for maintaining the status quo.

The industrial revolution also opened up a new path for exploiting workers for the personal gain of businesspeople and industrialists who amassed fortunes at the expense of low wages and working conditions. Despite all the social struggles and their victories, there are periods in history that end up undoing all the work done in just a few years. This is the case of the Great Depression, caused by the crash of the American stock market in 1929, when large companies invested in cheap assets, ensuring their enrichment after the economic recovery. This is also the case, more recently, of the COVID-19 pandemic, where there was the greatest increase in billionaires while workers saw their wages reduced, the cost of living increase and many even lost their source of income. Those who seem to be best equipped to deal with crises are also those who benefit most from them. It is no coincidence that those who seek to increase their capital to levels of billions also use less ethical or even legal tactics. In the case of Elon Musk, his fortune increased by 125 billion euros in just 2 months after Donald Trump was elected. It is no longer enough to command his departments, define policies, and be present in the Oval Office with his son (who makes a point of saying that Trump is not the president); Musk uses the system for his own benefit. Musk, at this point, is the system. If the American oligarchy ends up being an example of the political and economic exploitation of more fragile situations, what can we say about the greatest representative of neoliberalism, Javier Milei, president of Argentina. Milei, the hero of the Liberal Initiative, has just committed the largest cryptocurrency fraud on record by encouraging the purchase of his LIBRA currency to boost Argentina's economy through financing for small and medium-sized companies. He managed to vaporize 4.1 billion dollars from Argentines before deleting all his statements about it. In fact, this strategy is not new in politics, as there has already been a fraud in the past associated with the digital currency MELANIA, inspired by the wife of the president of the United States of America.

The way we accept that this is the norm is outrageous. Furthermore, seeing the continued distortion of taxes for the super-rich as if they were also new taxes for ordinary citizens leaves me incredulous. Remembering once again that while a worker is taxed for his job, American companies are taxed at less than 1% operating in the European Union with millionaire profits. It is unthinkable to think that the system only works if we continue to feed the billionaires, so that they leave us some of their crumbs.

And so the history of humanity goes on, where we know that these transfers seem to be the only certain thing in life. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. What the poor have not yet realized is that there are more and more of them. And strength lies in numbers.