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wasoxygen · 3912 days ago · link · · parent · post: The World's 85 Richest People Are as Wealthy as the Poorest 3 Billion
This seems like an important corrective to the numbers in that attention-grabbing headline: Stop adding up the wealth of the poor In brief, this is the man at the bottom of those Three Billion Poor; he probably wears, or wore, a Rolex. SadKerviel.jpg So the numbers are mostly an artifact; I don't mean to say anything to diminish the poignancy of the plight of the world's poor.