{"id":2636,"date":"2009-03-12T01:01:23","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T00:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=2636"},"modified":"2009-03-12T01:01:23","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T00:01:23","slug":"one-of-the-problems-of-the-rich-is-that-they-have-the-mostto-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=2636","title":{"rendered":"One of the problems of the rich is that they have the most&#8230;to lose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess one of the casualties of the Great Recession is inequity.  And that is not bad.  So far the biggest casualties of the economic crisis are the world\u00b4s richest people.  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20090311\/bs_nm\/us_forbes_billionaires_2\">According to Forbes in only one year<\/a> <em>The net worth of the world&#8217;s billionaires fell from $4.4 trillion to $2.4 trillion, while the number of billionaires was down to 793 from 1,125.<br \/>\n<\/em>.  Another positive impact of the crisis is the biggest decline in carbon emissions.  I am trying to get information on that but last night I had dinner with one of the largest toll highway operators in the world and traffic is down from 10 to 20 per cent.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=2636\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess one of the casualties of the Great Recession is inequity. And that is not bad. So far the biggest casualties of the economic crisis are the world\u00b4s richest people. According to Forbes in only one year The net worth of the world&#8217;s billionaires fell from $4.4 trillion to $2.4 trillion, while the number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}