Richest 2% control 50% of World's Wealth
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If you think about that mathmatically its pretty obvious really... just a statistic to shock as usual
- jox0
I don't really see what the shock is. Usually to be in the top 2% you have a position that affect lives, be it because you control oil billions of people rely on or because you create a software almost as many rely on.
- _jens_0
It's been like that since money was invented... Actually I think it's gotten better the last couple hundred of years.
- Mimio0
Still sounds far too consolidated to me. Wealth is derived from drawing the largest profits, not exclusively managing key assets that service the population.
- tkmeister0
it just goes to prove that i should do less work and more NT.
good luck rich people.
- Crouwel0
i am sure there's some medicine men in the African jungle really controlling us. with voodoo and all that.
- mpfree0
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006…
World's Third Richest man: Carlos Slim Helú
Slim Shady face too
Can you say computer hard dick:
haha
- M0NEYCIDE0
most of us are considered rich as fuck for global standards
- mpfree0
yessa, very.
- neue75_bold0
are you high, james?
- mpfree0
and every single one of you wish you had that amount of money.
_done
- Crouwel0
hehe
- 305artist0
Are you Americans talking about money again?
-Paltrow
- Soler0
I'd say that the poorest 50% owning less than 1% is more telling.
- jamble0
99% of NT readers won't be even remotely shocked by that statistic.
- paraselene0
99% of NT readers won't be even remotely shocked by that statistic.
jamble
(Dec 6 06, 00:41)yes, mostly because someone has posted it fortnightly for the past two years.
- rafalski0
majority of western population are dumb eejitts who keep mindless talentless likes of posh spice on covers of magazines, keeping them wealthy too.
then they vote the most comforting liar in town in, just to be sorry about it later, but never learn.
less educated parts of the world might be even worse, but having seen thousands of clearly intelligent sorbonne students waving flags of a regime that had killed couple of times more than nazis ever did makes me doubt in intelligence's relevance.so what did you expect?
- Crouwel0
but having seen thousands of clearly intelligent sorbonne students waving flags of a regime that had killed couple of times more than nazis ever did makes me doubt in intelligence's relevance.
------------------------what flags?
- Crouwel0
you know the nazi's killed millions right?
- rafalski0
what flags?
Crouwel
(Dec 6 06, 02:09)
- Crouwel0
oh hahaha, come on, those are French people. That doesn't count. I thought you were mentioning real people, like the 2006 ones on the scale of Darwin..hehehe..