For the first time in a quarter of a century, the rise in extreme wealth was accompanied by an increase in extreme poverty, Oxfam said.
None of this is to excuse what has happened, but it is worth revisiting how gross inequality and poverty have helped fuel the past week’s events.
In what is a massive failure in moral leadership, Oxfam has let down thousands around the world after it allegedly covered up a scandal involving its most senior official in Haiti.