(January 20, 2015 at 3:04 pm)Heywood Wrote: Real wealth is stuff not numbers in a ledger. If you killed every millionaire and took their stuff and divided it up among the rest. Peoples lives would not change by very much. Rich people just don't have enough stuff.
Bullshit! Less than 1/3 of the annual earnings of the world's richest 100 people would be enough to end extreme poverty everywhere. For less than $70B everyone on the planet could have clean water to drink, food to eat, a roof over their head and basic medical services. In 2012 the world's richest 100 people earned an additional $240B. If those 100 people gave 30% of their earnings for one year everybody on the planet could have basic necessities and the rich would still be filthy fucking rich.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/billionaire...ll/5318471
http://topics.bloomberg.com/bloomberg-bi...res-index/
http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/researc...chandy.pdf
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