[muse900]

Small-medium hotel owner here, that used to write code for a living.

What just happened in my industry, is forcing me to go look for a job. I don't think we are going to open for summer season or even if we do its not gonna make enough to live by.

Hundreds or thousands of years ago, a few had all the wealth and then most people were poor. We even had slaves.

I can't believe that in 2020 and with all the knowledge we've acquired as humanity we've allowed a few people to acquire all the wealth.

I am gonna struggle with paying any tax coming my way this year, or even supporting my employees who they very much need the job. And on the other hand, there are corporation that don't need to pay much tax through their umbrellas and then again they pay their employees peanuts so they can have a CEO that is worth in the hundred of billions of $. Sad to see that humanity hasn't improved at all.

[vosper]

First, I'm sorry about your troubles.

But it's not this way everywhere: there are countries (I'm thinking of Scandinavian) where inequality is perhaps not so bad, and there are countries where governments are making major and genuine efforts to support businesses and people who are at risk of (or who have) lost their jobs due to Covid.

There's bad leadership and bad behaviour in many places, but not everywhere all at the same time.

[RestlessMind]

Global population is 7.8B. Scandinavia's population is 25-26M (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark). So your point applies to countries with 0.33% of humanity, which is not representative at all. Maybe add a few tiny countries or city-states and I would be surprised if their aggregative population crosses 2% of the overall global population.

So I believe GP's point still stands - humanity has not learned the lesson from thousands of years of its history.

[vosper]

The entire rest of the world that's not part of Scandinavia is not the polar opposite. There are many countries, and much diversity in their equality and government responses.

[cutemonster]

Our genes don't change and improve that fast

Good points about the numbers

[barry-cotter]

> I can't believe that in 2020 and with all the knowledge we've acquired as humanity we've allowed a few people to acquire all the wealth.

This is the most prosperous time in human history. There are more people alive right now than ever before. They live longer healthier lives and they’re more educated than ever before.

On every continent but Africa people are richer now than was the case after WWII. In the US, the richest country that has ever existed people are just coming out of one of the longest economic expansions in history.

[d3ad1ysp0rk]

What hotel? I did mostly Ruby, Python, and engineering management before opening a Hostel :)

[Answerawake]

What city are you in? A few years back I quit my QA job to travel from city to city in Europe and stayed in hostels. I loved Paris. The people running many of the hostels there are still friends to this day.