According to @DowdEdward, Oxfam’s 2023 data show the richest 1% own nearly half of global wealth while the bottom 50% hold just 0.75% (source: Oxfam 2023 via @DowdEdward). He argues that historically such gaps narrow mainly under existential threats or systemic collapse, citing Rome’s fall, the French Revolution, the Black Death’s labor shock, and the Great Depression as examples (source: @DowdEdward). He links today’s inequality dynamic to a governmental push for a cyber control grid with digital money as the control mechanism, signaling policy and surveillance risk relevant to digital assets and CBDC debates (source: @DowdEdward). He adds that he does not see imminent collapse but urges investors to understand cycles and government behavior when assessing macro risk (source: @DowdEdward). For crypto traders, the takeaway is elevated headline risk around CBDC frameworks and financial surveillance that could shape market sentiment and positioning across digital assets (source: @DowdEdward).