During the pandemic, the rich saw their ranks swell as stock markets soared even as low-income workers returned to work and blue collar jobs were hollowed out.The upshot is that for the first time in three decades, extreme poverty and extreme wealth across the world have gone up at the same time.As the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum opens in Davos, Oxfam has shown that the gaps are yawning wider: the four richest Britons now have more wealth than 20 million compatriots.
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