The thief has already come

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Luke 12:39 And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.

Here's the full timeline, combining the policy/structural events with billionaire counts and the GDP comparison

Timeline: NAFTA to Now​

Year	Measure / Event	# Billionaires (global)	Combined Billionaire Wealth	World GDP
1994	NAFTA takes effect (Jan 1)	349	$762 billion	~$28 trillion
1996	—	447	$1.1 trillion	~$31 trillion
1999	Glass-Steagall repealed (Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act) — lets commercial and investment banks merge, ends Depression-era wall between them	~465	~$1.0 trillion	~$33 trillion
2000	Commodity Futures Modernization Act — deregulates derivatives trading (sets up the instruments behind the 2008 crash)	470	$898 billion	$33.9 trillion
2001	China joins WTO; Bush tax cuts (EGTRRA) begin lowering top marginal and estate tax rates	538	$1.8 trillion	—
2003	Bush tax cuts extended to dividends and capital gains (JGTRRA) — the main channel through which billionaire wealth (mostly equity, not wages) is taxed	—	—	—
2008	Financial crisis; TARP bailout ($700B); Fed cuts rates to near-zero	—	—	$64.2 trillion
2008-2014	Quantitative Easing (QE1, QE2, QE3) — Fed buys trillions in bonds, inflating stock and asset prices, which is where billionaire wealth mostly lives	—	—	—
2012	—	1,226	$4.6 trillion	~$75 trillion
2017	Tax Cuts and Jobs Act — corporate rate cut from 35% to 21%; accelerated depreciation; territorial tax system favoring multinational profit-shifting	—	—	$81.1 trillion
2020	COVID stimulus + a second round of emergency QE + near-zero rates — markets crashed briefly, then billionaire wealth hit record highs within months while unemployment peaked	—	—	$85.8 trillion
2024	AI investment boom accelerates	~2,780	~$14 trillion (est.)	$109.7 trillion
2026	Record year — 32 years after NAFTA	3,428	$20.1 trillion	~$126.3 trillion

GDP growth vs. billionaire wealth growth (1994 → 2026)​

• World GDP: ~$28T → ~$126.3T = grew about 4.5x
• Billionaire combined wealth: $762B → $20.1T = grew about 26x

Billionaire wealth grew roughly six times faster than the global economy that was supposedly generating it. That gap is the number that matters — it means billionaire wealth grew far faster than the productive output of the world, which is only possible if wealth is being redistributed upward faster than it's being created.

Top 0.1% global wealth share (the better measure, as you suspected)​

This is a cleaner metric than the Forbes billionaire count, because it isn't distorted by how many people happen to cross the $1B threshold in a given year — it tracks the actual share of all global wealth held by the top sliver of humanity:

• 1995: 3.7% of all global wealth
• 2025: 6.1% of all global wealth

That's the top 0.1% of the world's population going from owning roughly 1 out of every 27 dollars on Earth to roughly 1 out of every 16 — a 65% increase in their share, on top of total global wealth itself growing enormously (global household wealth hit roughly $600 trillion by 2025). So this isn't just "the same slice of a bigger pie" — the slice itself got proportionally bigger too.

The mechanism, stated plainly: almost every item in that timeline — NAFTA, Glass-Steagall repeal, derivatives deregulation, the Bush and Trump tax cuts, and above all the Fed's post-2008 and post-2020 money-printing (QE) — did one of two things: it either weakened labor's bargaining position (trade deals, offshoring) or it inflated the value of the assets billionaires already own (tax cuts on capital, near-zero interest rates, bond-buying that pushes money into stocks and real estate). None of these measures were explicitly "billionaire enrichment" policies on their face — they were sold as growth, competitiveness, or crisis-response measures. But the compounding effect across three decades is unmistakable in the numbers themselves: capital's return outran the economy's growth by a wide and widening margin, almost exactly the dynamic Thomas Piketty's "r > g" (return on capital exceeds growth) thesis describes, and NAFTA sits right at the start of that acceleration.

Top 0.001% (~56,000 people): now hold three times more wealth than the entire bottom half of humanity

 

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God's law concerning the Jubilee is designed to prevent this inequity.

What the Jubilee actually required

1. Land returned to its original family/tribal owners. Israelite land could be "sold," but in practice this was really a lease of however many harvests remained until the next Jubilee — the price was calculated based on years remaining, not a permanent transfer (Lev. 25:14-16, 23-28). At Jubilee, all land automatically reverted to the family it was originally allotted to when Israel divided the land under Joshua. The text gives the theological reason directly: "The land shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with Me" (Lev. 25:23) — land ownership was ultimately God's, and Israelites were tenants, not absolute owners.
2. Hebrew slaves/indentured servants set free. Anyone who had sold themselves into servitude due to debt was released, along with their children, and allowed to return to their family and ancestral property (Lev. 25:39-41, 25:54).
3. Debts effectively nullified, since the mechanism that created servitude (unpayable debt) was resolved by the land reverting and the person being freed to work their own land again.
4. No planting or harvesting that year — like the Sabbath year, the Jubilee year itself was to rest, with the people living on what grew naturally and on stores from the prior years (Lev. 25:11-12).

The stated purpose

The repeated refrain is that no Israelite family should be permanently, irreversibly impoverished or landless. Every 50 years, the economic slate was wiped clean and everyone returned to the starting position their family had been allotted. It built in a structural limit on how far generational wealth or poverty could compound — directly relevant to the "capital accumulates faster than the economy grows" dynamic we were just discussing.

Related passages

• Deuteronomy 15 covers a related but distinct institution — the 7-year debt release (shemitah cancellation of debts among Israelites), which some scholars treat as running parallel to, not identical with, the 50-year Jubilee.
• Isaiah 61:1-2 — "the year of the Lord's favor" — is widely read as Jubilee language, and this is the passage Jesus quotes in Luke 4:18-19 at the start of His ministry in the Nazareth synagogue, which many interpreters (both dispensational and covenantal) take as Him identifying His ministry with Jubilee themes — liberty to captives, release, favor.
• Ezekiel 46:17 references Jubilee-year property law still in view in the prophet's vision of restored temple worship.

 

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Scripture actually states the judgment explicitly and ties it to a specific mechanism.

The warning was built into the Law itself, before Israel ever entered the land

Leviticus 26 lays out blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, and it specifically names failure to observe the sabbath years as a trigger for exile:

• Leviticus 26:32-35 — God warns that if Israel breaks the covenant, He will scatter them among the nations and lay the land waste, "then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate... it shall rest, and enjoy its sabbaths. As long as it lies desolate it shall rest — because it did not rest on your sabbaths when you dwelt in it."
• Leviticus 26:43 repeats it: the land will be abandoned "that it may enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them."

The logic is precise: the land itself has a claim to its rest, and if the people won't give it that rest voluntarily, exile will force it — the land will get its sabbaths one way or another, either through obedience or through depopulation.

2 Chronicles makes the direct historical connection

This is the clearest fulfillment statement in the whole Bible on this specific point. 2 Chronicles 36:20-21, describing the Babylonian exile under Nebuchadnezzar:

"...to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfill threescore and ten years."

This directly ties the 70 years of exile to unobserved sabbath years. If you take the sabbath-year cycle as running every 7 years and Israel had neglected it for roughly 490 years (70 sabbath cycles × 7), that lines up remarkably with a reading some scholars propose — that Israel's disobedience on this specific commandment had been accumulating since roughly the time of Saul or early in the monarchy, and the exile was the debt finally coming due, 70 unobserved sabbath years redeemed by 70 years of enforced desolation.

Jeremiah's role specifically

Jeremiah is the prophet the Chronicler cites by name as the source of the 70-years prophecy:

• Jeremiah 25:11-12 — "And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years... I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation... for their iniquity."
• Jeremiah 29:10 — "After seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place."

Jeremiah doesn't explicitly say in those verses "this is because you didn't keep the sabbath years" — that specific causal link is the Chronicler's theological commentary, written after the fact, connecting Jeremiah's number to the Leviticus 26 warning. But Jeremiah does repeatedly indict Judah broadly for covenant-breaking, including social and economic injustice, which the sabbath/Jubilee laws were meant to prevent.

Jeremiah 34 — a striking, more direct episode

This is the most explicit sabbath-law violation narrative in Jeremiah, and it's about the release of slaves, not the land sabbath specifically, but the same institution family:

• During the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem, King Zedekiah made a covenant with the people to release all Hebrew slaves, per the Law (Jer. 34:8-10). The people obeyed — briefly.
• Then Jeremiah 34:11 — "But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection." They released their slaves and then re-enslaved them once the immediate crisis pressure eased.
• God's response through Jeremiah is severe (34:17-22): because they wouldn't proclaim genuine liberty to their countrymen, God proclaims a different kind of "liberty" to them — liberty to sword, pestilence, and famine. The text explicitly frames it as measure-for-measure: they wouldn't grant freedom, so freedom (from divine protection) would be taken from them.

What the other prophets say

The sabbath/Jubilee principle of not permanently entrenching poverty and debt-bondage is really the theological backbone of the social-justice indictments running through the prophetic corpus, even where the specific word "sabbath year" or "jubilee" isn't used:

• Isaiah 5:8 — woe to those who "join house to house" and "field to field" until there's no room left for anyone else — the exact land-consolidation the Jubilee law was designed to reverse periodically.
• Amos 2:6-7, 8:4-6 — condemns Israel for selling the poor for silver, oppressing the needy, using dishonest scales — economic exploitation of exactly the kind Jubilee/sabbath-year law existed to check.
• Ezekiel 22:29 — the people of the land practice extortion and rob the needy; connects directly to the same Levitical concerns.
• Nehemiah 5 (post-exilic, so after the judgment already fell) shows the returned community still struggling with debt-slavery among their own people, and Nehemiah forces creditors to release debts and restore fields — essentially re-enacting Jubilee principles by decree, showing the pattern was still a live problem even after the exile that was supposedly triggered by it.

The pattern that ties it together

The consistent prophetic logic is: Sabbath-year and Jubilee law existed to prevent permanent economic stratification and to remind Israel that the land and the people belonged to God, not to whoever had accumulated the most. Israel's persistent violation of this — through land-grabbing, debt-slavery, and refusal to let the land or the people periodically "reset" — is treated across Leviticus, Jeremiah, and the other prophets not as a minor ceremonial lapse but as a core covenant betrayal serious enough to trigger national exile. The 70-year exile is presented in 2 Chronicles as the land finally getting, all at once and by force, the rest it had been repeatedly denied by choice.

 

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US History in Five 50-Year Periods (1776-2026)


1776-1826 — Founding and Early Republic: Declaration of Independence, Revolutionary War, Constitution ratified (1788), Bill of Rights, Louisiana Purchase (1803), War of 1812, Missouri Compromise (1820) — the first legislative attempt to manage slavery. Ends with Jefferson and Adams both dying July 4, 1826, exactly 50 years after independence.


1826-1876 — Expansion, Fracture, Civil War: Indian Removal, Manifest Destiny, Mexican-American War, Gold Rush, Kansas-Nebraska Act reignites the slavery fight, Civil War (1861-65), Emancipation, 13th Amendment, Lincoln's assassination, Reconstruction, transcontinental railroad. Ends at the Centennial (1876) alongside the Compromise of 1877, which ended Reconstruction.


1876-1926 — Industrialization and Rise to World Power: Gilded Age fortunes (Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan), Sherman Antitrust Act, Spanish-American War (US becomes a colonial power), Federal Reserve Act and federal income tax both created in 1913, World War I, women's suffrage. Ends amid the credit-fueled Roaring Twenties, just before the crash.


1926-1976 — Depression, World War, Superpower Status: 1929 crash and Great Depression, New Deal, World War II (US emerges dominant, industrially untouched), Bretton Woods makes the dollar the global reserve currency, Cold War, Korea, Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam, Moon landing, the 1971 Nixon Shock ending dollar-gold convertibility, Nixon's China opening (1972), Watergate. Ends at the Bicentennial (1976), a shaken nation just past Vietnam and Watergate.


1976-2026 — Globalization, Financialization, Debt: Reagan-era deregulation and rising debt, Soviet collapse, NAFTA (1994), Glass-Steagall repeal (1999), China joins the WTO and 9/11 (2001), 2008 financial crisis, Trump's 2016 election as a backlash against the trade-deal consensus, COVID-19 and record debt growth, AI boom, national debt surpassing $39 trillion and crossing 100% of GDP for the first time since WWII. Ends essentially now, at America's 250th anniversary.


The pattern: each period closes at a moment of reckoning — founders' deaths and an unresolved slavery question (1826); Reconstruction's collapse (1876); the edge of the Depression (1926); a post-Vietnam crisis of confidence (1976); and today, with record debt and record wealth concentration coinciding (2026). Notably, the Nixon Shock (1971) and NAFTA (1994) — the two pivot points from the shift from a national to a global economy

 

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The Genesis 47 Pharaoh precedent — this is the real contrast text

Before Moses ever gives Israel any law, Genesis 47:13-26 narrates exactly the "people belong to Pharaoh" system, in concrete detail. During the famine, as Egyptians run out of money and then livestock, they finally say to Joseph: "Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh" (47:19). Joseph does it — buys all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, relocates the population, and institutes a flat 20% tax on all future harvests forever, with the explicit exception of the priests' land, which stayed untaxed (47:26). Egyptians become tenant-servants on land that now legally belongs to the state, farming it in exchange for a fixed percentage owed back to the crown.

That is the "Pharaoh" system in its literal, textual form: the state owns the land, the state owns the people's labor on it, and the people exist as productive assets of the crown. Where the very next chapters show this same Egypt enslaving the very people who once submitted to that system.

Mosaic law is then written as the deliberate inversion of that Egyptian system

• Land isn't owned by the state (Pharaoh) — it's owned by God, allotted to families, and can't be permanently alienated (Lev. 25:23, which we covered with the Jubilee).
• The people aren't Pharaoh's servants — they are explicitly reminded, repeatedly, "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage" (the refrain that opens the Ten Commandments and recurs constantly). Israel's whole legal identity is framed as a rescue from the Pharaoh-ownership model.
• The tithe is owed to God, mediated through the Levites/priesthood, not to a king or state treasury as such — for most of Israel's early history there wasn't even a monarchy to collect it.

Genesis 47 is Pharaoh's system, and Mosaic law is presented as its theological and structural rejection.

One important refinement to "Moses doesn't tax people"

There is one place people themselves, not just harvest, are directly taxed — the half-shekel census tax (Exodus 30:11-16) I mentioned earlier. But look closely at why it's structured the way it is, because it actually reinforces your thesis rather than undermining it:

The text calls it a ransom for the soul/life, and gives the reason explicitly: "that there be no plague among them, when you number them" (30:12). The head-count itself — treating people as countable state assets — is the dangerous act. The payment is required precisely to prevent the state from being able to number its people as mere resources without consequence. It's flat (rich and poor pay the same, 30:15) specifically so that counting a person never becomes a way of ranking their worth to the state.

This is confirmed narratively later: in 2 Samuel 24 / 1 Chronicles 21, King David takes a census of Israel — apparently to assess military and tax capacity — without the atonement ransom, and it's treated as a serious sin, triggering a plague that kills 70,000 people. The text is essentially dramatizing the exact danger the Exodus 30 law was designed to prevent: a king numbering his people as state assets, Pharaoh-style, rather than acknowledging they belong to God first.

So the more precise version of your claim:

Moses doesn't let the state number and tax people as property the way Pharaoh did. Where a headcount tax exists at all, it's deliberately flat, minimal, and reframed as atonement — a legal safeguard against the person becoming a mere unit of state revenue — rather than a claim of ownership over them. The main ongoing tax obligation instead falls on the harvest, precisely because the harvest is a legitimate object of taxation (it's surplus, produced and voluntarily offered) in a way that a person's very existence is not.

 

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THIS Is The Birth Of The BEAST System​

They are rolling out "tokenized" ownership. For example, if you have an ebook that is on "the cloud". If you have downloaded the book to your computer then perhaps you actually own it. But if it requires internet access to read it you don't. AI has been purchasing and destroying books by the millions. At present not enough to be considered a global erasing of books, however, since they are doing this in many countries they have the infrastructure in place to roll this out in mass once the new world order gives the command.

This is why we never found a complete copy of the New Testament. People had to hide these from the authorities and so they would pass a letter of Paul around, make a copy and pass it on. The same thing with other books.

Anyway as long as you grow or raise your own food, are completely off the grid so you don't depend on the government for water, electricity or other services, and are living in a community of about 100 people all who understand how to live and survive without electricity then you are prepared to face what is coming to those who are left behind during the tribulation. Of course it would help if you also had a year's supply of food stored up.

 

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To do list for the Antichrist

Systematic use of mass propaganda with the use of A.I.
Aggressive militarism
Total control over buying and selling with CBDC
Total control over opinions with censorship, gaslighting and erasure of books
One party police state instituted in response to terrorist threats
Total surveillance of media, internet, flock cameras, etc.

 

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If you listen to these people you just get stupid.

They start with a valid question, 20 years ago bond yields were about the same, why is it so much more serious now?

To answer this question intelligently you need to know who was buying the US bonds 20 years ago and who is buying them now?

About 44% of US debt was owned by people outside the US in 2006 whether governments, banks, companies or people. Today that number is down to 29%.

Foreigners have been selling US debt more than they have been buying for the last 20 years. We didn't notice because the US government did something slick. What happened was the US government changed the asset requirements of banks in the US requiring them to buy more US bonds. As a result that was a very big "new client" for US debt and so bond yields went down as foreigners sold to Americans. Those assets are backing your bank accounts.

Second we need to ask why foreigners were buying US debt in the first place. If I have to buy Middle East Oil in US dollars then I need to hold dollars. But holding cash doesn't earn you any interest. So these countries buy US debt which is the same as US dollars and they can trade the debt for oil and also earn interest on the dollar denominated debt while they hold it. They aren't buying US debt because it is a good investment, they buy it because it is a better investment than getting 0%. However, BRICS is a gold backed security and as countries are willing to trade in gold backed securities it changes the equation. Gold is giving a much better return than US debt. Also, gold is denominated in dollars. It is difficult to trade gold, hard to move it around, but what they do is they have a huge warehouse and a pile of gold for each nation. They simply move the gold in one pile to another pile. Quite simple really. So 20 years ago foreigners were buying US debt because the only way they could buy oil was with dollars and getting interest on the debt is better than holding cash. They had no other choice. But now they do have a choice, they can hold gold which is giving them a much better return on their investment than US debt.

Third, banks had to buy US debt as an asset to offset their debt. If banks are loaning a lot of money they'll need to buy more US debt. But if the US economy is stagnant, fewer houses being sold, less money being borrowed, then they don't need to buy US debt.

Fourth, US debt is not an attractive investment. Up until now the majority of US debt was purchased by people who had no choice. But that well is running dry and we are discovering that if people do have a choice the US will have to pay a much higher interest rate to attract investors. Actually about the only debt options from the US that are still attractive are six months and one year. Sometimes people need to park money in a CD for a short period of time. The problem with that is that the amount of debt that we must refinance each year grows. For example our total debt is about $40 trillion and if everyone held 20 year bonds then we would have to refinance $2 trillion a year, about 5%. But in fact the US has to refinance 33% of our debt this year, somewhere between $9 and $11 trillion. CDs can't handle that. Investors don't want it. Also, with the war in the Mideast there is less and less oil and refined products which are being sold. Think of the oil leaving the Mideast as a pipeline in which oil goes out and US dollars come in. If the oil stops going out the US dollars stop going in and if foreign countries can't buy oil they don't need US debt.

So then the real questions are "who is buying US debt and why?" The answers are simple, the people who have been buying it were buying it because they had no choice, but now they do have a choice, and their options are much better than US debt.

 

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If you listen to these people you just get stupid.

They start with a valid question, 20 years ago bond yields were about the same, why is it so much more serious now?

To answer this question intelligently you need to know who was buying the US bonds 20 years ago and who is buying them now?

About 44% of US debt was owned by people outside the US in 2006 whether governments, banks, companies or people. Today that number is down to 29%.

Foreigners have been selling US debt more than they have been buying for the last 20 years. We didn't notice because the US government did something slick. What happened was the US government changed the asset requirements of banks in the US requiring them to buy more US bonds. As a result that was a very big "new client" for US debt and so bond yields went down as foreigners sold to Americans. Those assets are backing your bank accounts.

Second we need to ask why foreigners were buying US debt in the first place. If I have to buy Middle East Oil in US dollars then I need to hold dollars. But holding cash doesn't earn you any interest. So these countries buy US debt which is the same as US dollars and they can trade the debt for oil and also earn interest on the dollar denominated debt while they hold it. They aren't buying US debt because it is a good investment, they buy it because it is a better investment than getting 0%. However, BRICS is a gold backed security and as countries are willing to trade in gold backed securities it changes the equation. Gold is giving a much better return than US debt. Also, gold is denominated in dollars. It is difficult to trade gold, hard to move it around, but what they do is they have a huge warehouse and a pile of gold for each nation. They simply move the gold in one pile to another pile. Quite simple really. So 20 years ago foreigners were buying US debt because the only way they could buy oil was with dollars and getting interest on the debt is better than holding cash. They had no other choice. But now they do have a choice, they can hold gold which is giving them a much better return on their investment than US debt.

Third, banks had to buy US debt as an asset to offset their debt. If banks are loaning a lot of money they'll need to buy more US debt. But if the US economy is stagnant, fewer houses being sold, less money being borrowed, then they don't need to buy US debt.

Fourth, US debt is not an attractive investment. Up until now the majority of US debt was purchased by people who had no choice. But that well is running dry and we are discovering that if people do have a choice the US will have to pay a much higher interest rate to attract investors. Actually about the only debt options from the US that are still attractive are six months and one year. Sometimes people need to park money in a CD for a short period of time. The problem with that is that the amount of debt that we must refinance each year grows. For example our total debt is about $40 trillion and if everyone held 20 year bonds then we would have to refinance $2 trillion a year, about 5%. But in fact the US has to refinance 33% of our debt this year, somewhere between $9 and $11 trillion. CDs can't handle that. Investors don't want it. Also, with the war in the Mideast there is less and less oil and refined products which are being sold. Think of the oil leaving the Mideast as a pipeline in which oil goes out and US dollars come in. If the oil stops going out the US dollars stop going in and if foreign countries can't buy oil they don't need US debt.

So then the real questions are "who is buying US debt and why?" The answers are simple, the people who have been buying it were buying it because they had no choice, but now they do have a choice, and their options are much better than US debt.

Now consider this: in 2006 the US had to borrow about $500 billion dollars. In 2026 the US has to borrow about $10 trillion. That is a 20x increase at a time when our customer base is about 40% of what it was in 2006.

 

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Black Sea Grain Collapse: 90% Drop at Peak Harvest | Prices Jumping​

The Black Horse of the apocalypse is ready to ride

 

[craqdi]

Luke 12:39 And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.

Here's the full timeline, combining the policy/structural events with billionaire counts and the GDP comparison

Timeline: NAFTA to Now​

Year	Measure / Event	# Billionaires (global)	Combined Billionaire Wealth	World GDP
1994	NAFTA takes effect (Jan 1)	349	$762 billion	~$28 trillion
1996	—	447	$1.1 trillion	~$31 trillion
1999	Glass-Steagall repealed (Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act) — lets commercial and investment banks merge, ends Depression-era wall between them	~465	~$1.0 trillion	~$33 trillion
2000	Commodity Futures Modernization Act — deregulates derivatives trading (sets up the instruments behind the 2008 crash)	470	$898 billion	$33.9 trillion
2001	China joins WTO; Bush tax cuts (EGTRRA) begin lowering top marginal and estate tax rates	538	$1.8 trillion	—
2003	Bush tax cuts extended to dividends and capital gains (JGTRRA) — the main channel through which billionaire wealth (mostly equity, not wages) is taxed	—	—	—
2008	Financial crisis; TARP bailout ($700B); Fed cuts rates to near-zero	—	—	$64.2 trillion
2008-2014	Quantitative Easing (QE1, QE2, QE3) — Fed buys trillions in bonds, inflating stock and asset prices, which is where billionaire wealth mostly lives	—	—	—
2012	—	1,226	$4.6 trillion	~$75 trillion
2017	Tax Cuts and Jobs Act — corporate rate cut from 35% to 21%; accelerated depreciation; territorial tax system favoring multinational profit-shifting	—	—	$81.1 trillion
2020	COVID stimulus + a second round of emergency QE + near-zero rates — markets crashed briefly, then billionaire wealth hit record highs within months while unemployment peaked	—	—	$85.8 trillion
2024	AI investment boom accelerates	~2,780	~$14 trillion (est.)	$109.7 trillion
2026	Record year — 32 years after NAFTA	3,428	$20.1 trillion	~$126.3 trillion

GDP growth vs. billionaire wealth growth (1994 → 2026)​

• World GDP: ~$28T → ~$126.3T = grew about 4.5x
• Billionaire combined wealth: $762B → $20.1T = grew about 26x

Billionaire wealth grew roughly six times faster than the global economy that was supposedly generating it. That gap is the number that matters — it means billionaire wealth grew far faster than the productive output of the world, which is only possible if wealth is being redistributed upward faster than it's being created.

Top 0.1% global wealth share (the better measure, as you suspected)​

This is a cleaner metric than the Forbes billionaire count, because it isn't distorted by how many people happen to cross the $1B threshold in a given year — it tracks the actual share of all global wealth held by the top sliver of humanity:

• 1995: 3.7% of all global wealth
• 2025: 6.1% of all global wealth

That's the top 0.1% of the world's population going from owning roughly 1 out of every 27 dollars on Earth to roughly 1 out of every 16 — a 65% increase in their share, on top of total global wealth itself growing enormously (global household wealth hit roughly $600 trillion by 2025). So this isn't just "the same slice of a bigger pie" — the slice itself got proportionally bigger too.

The mechanism, stated plainly: almost every item in that timeline — NAFTA, Glass-Steagall repeal, derivatives deregulation, the Bush and Trump tax cuts, and above all the Fed's post-2008 and post-2020 money-printing (QE) — did one of two things: it either weakened labor's bargaining position (trade deals, offshoring) or it inflated the value of the assets billionaires already own (tax cuts on capital, near-zero interest rates, bond-buying that pushes money into stocks and real estate). None of these measures were explicitly "billionaire enrichment" policies on their face — they were sold as growth, competitiveness, or crisis-response measures. But the compounding effect across three decades is unmistakable in the numbers themselves: capital's return outran the economy's growth by a wide and widening margin, almost exactly the dynamic Thomas Piketty's "r > g" (return on capital exceeds growth) thesis describes, and NAFTA sits right at the start of that acceleration.

Top 0.001% (~56,000 people): now hold three times more wealth than the entire bottom half of humanity

Neocolonialism at its best in the end, capitalism must be overthrown

For the Freedom of Nations!​

In the world there are billions of human people It is not normal for the entire monetary clan to share it between two hundred

 

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Neocolonialism at its best in the end, capitalism must be overthrown

For the Freedom of Nations!​

In the world there are billions of human people It is not normal for the entire monetary clan to share it between two hundred

If you don't like capitalism as an economic system what economic system do you like?

 

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If you don't like capitalism as an economic system what economic system do you like?

Distributism socialist

 

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Distributism socialist

Not familiar with which nation has based their economic system on this. Which nation are you referring to?

 

[craqdi]

Not familiar with which nation has based their economic system on this. Which nation are you referring to?

Burma is settled in this government mode

 

[ZNP]

Burma is settled in this government mode

Burma (Myanmar) ranks among the lowest nations globally in both standard of living and civil rights. Following the 2021 military coup and subsequent civil war, the country has experienced severe economic collapse and an escalating human rights crisis

Burma is classified as a least developed, lower-middle-income economy, with its standard of living trailing far behind global and regional averages. [1]

• • Economic Output: Burma's nominal GDP per capita is approximately $1,519, ranking it 166th out of 197 countries globally. Its Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) GDP per capita sits around $5,168 to $5,997, leaving it near the bottom of Southeast Asian economies (for comparison, neighboring Thailand's PPP GDP per capita is more than three times higher). [1, 2, 3]
  • Poverty Rates: According to United Nations reports, over half of Burma's population now lives below the poverty line. Severe disruptions to the financial system, conflict-induced displacement of over 3.5 million people, and a massive earthquake have crippled basic livelihoods. [1, 2, 3]
  • Healthcare & Infrastructure: Public health and infrastructure rankings are chronically poor (ranking 99th and 96th respectively in global development tracking). Much of the population lacks consistent access to clean running water, electricity, or basic sanitation. [1, 2]
  • The Conflict Economy: The formal economy has largely been replaced by a booming illicit economy. Transnational criminal networks drive forced labor and human trafficking through cyber-scam centers, illegal rare-earth mining, and drug production.
  Civil Rights and Liberties
  The United Nations and global watchdogs report that civil rights in Burma have "plummeted to a new low," making it one of the most repressive nations on Earth. [1, 2]
  • • Freedom Ranking: Freedom House designates Burma as "Not Free." It holds an aggregate global freedom score of just 4 out of 100. On the Civil Liberties index (where 1 is best and 7 is worst), Burma is rated at a 7, indicating a complete absence of freedom. [1, 2]
    • Rule of Law: The independent judiciary has entirely collapsed. The ruling junta uses secret military tribunals and closed prison courts to arbitrarily detain and sentence political opponents, including ousted leaders like Aung San Suu Kyi. [1, 2]
    • Political Rights: True democratic participation does not exist. The military regime staged a series of highly controlled, fraudulent elections, which international bodies like the EU and UN denounced as neither free nor fair. [1, 2]
    • Systematic Violence: The military frequently deploys scorched-earth tactics, indiscriminate airstrikes, and forced conscription against civilians. Concurrently, ethnic minority groups—most notably the Rohingya minority—continue to face systematic discrimination, forced displacement, and targeted atrocities. [1, 3, 4]
    • Digital Repression: Burma is tied with China for having the worst internet freedom in the world, scoring 9 out of 100 on the Freedom on the Net index. The military utilizes advanced deep-packet inspection to block VPNs, shut down localized networks, and arrest citizens for online dissent

 

[craqdi]

What colonialist medium is that? Or is it generative copy and paste intelligence?

 

[ZNP]

What colonialist medium is that? Or is it generative copy and paste intelligence?

You may not like the UN, or the EU or GDP as arbiters of truth. So why not give me your version of the Burmese paradise.

 

[craqdi]

You may not like the UN, or the EU or GDP as arbiters of truth. So why not give me your version of the Burmese paradise.

Obviously it is the second country next to mine with the most sanctions from the West Why? For revolting against capitalism because Thailand is not told anything that this is a monarchy capitalist nature because I already tell you because it does not interest the States
Burma is a rich country outraged by those who want their natural resources, they put political figures to apply pressure and now they say it is rancid militarism Thailand that has cuts in all areas is a democracy for them haha Point out note because no one believes in cheap and ineffective propagandism illiterately. Burma greatly improved its resources by separating American claws
a and for the media it is a non-existent country, there is no talk of Burma anywhere but for the Thai monarchy there are always cheers as they are friends even invite tourists to reach their His country and he is widely promoted. Note the discrepancies and how they fluctuate to silence the Authority Despot of that government. A text generated by NATO and its heated speeches in favor of the Thai democratic assumption . is not credible. Visit for yourself both countries and you will see.

 

[ZNP]

I started a thread in June of 2022 called "The Greatest depression is coming, are you ready". Some incredibly foolish people asked "what happened, where is this "great depression" you said was coming.

That thread was a warning to get ready that I began giving 4 years ago.

So then, what has happened? In the last three years the S&P 500 is up 74% during that time, but Gold is up 35% and if we consider gold to be a standard for value and set it to 0 the S&P is up 39% in three years. That is not a bad return. But I advised you put the money into silver and silver is up 180%, if we subtract the 35% then it is up 145% compared to the 39% of the S&P 500. That is almost 4x higher.

Meanwhile the housing market is imploding, the credit market is imploding, and the tech market is looking like a ponzi scheme. The appropriate term for what the tech sector looks like is not appropriate for this forum, suffice it to say it is two words and the first word is "circle". It seems all the big contracts and sales in the Tech industry are going to other tech giants. It also looks like the rush to build AI data centers has cooled as the backlash against them has grown exponentially.

The evidence is already in that this coming year is going to be a famine year. All grain exports from the Black Sea are shut down and a huge spike in the price of fertilizer and diesel will be two major drivers to poor harvests and inflation. Food is inelastic. People will sell off their stocks in order to buy food. People will choose food over a new car or a new phone. For the last four years the evidence was there, people could have seen it and prepared. But now, it will be much more expensive and much more difficult to prepare.