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Jack the Capitalist
Dickson C. Igew
A $500 million yacht moors off a remote Caribbean island. A helicopter takes off from its deck. A massive private jet sits silently on the tarmac of a private airport nearby; surrounded by smaller planes. A billionaire is ‘chilling’ off his private island with his friends and associates.
Power & Inequality
By Dickson Igwe
Karl Marx, the Great Enlightenment Philosopher, stated in his magnum opus Das Kapital that the route to true social equality was through violent revolution.
INEQUALITY and TRICKLEDOWN in the USA
By Dickson Igwe
The following story is part of a series of articles assessing economic matters in the Virgin Islands. It reviews one aspect of the hemisphere’s largest economy and market: the USA. Wealth inequality in the USA is affecting that country in ways that are yet to be fully assessed.