From The Guardian. The report is from Oxfam, a British-based charitable organization:
“The growing concentration of the world’s wealth has been highlighted by a report showing that the 26 richest billionaires own as many assets as the 3.8 billion people who make up the poorest half of the planet’s population.”
Oxfam says between 2017 and 2018 a billionaire was created every two days. And then there’s this. Just 1% of Jeff Bezos’s (pre-divorce) fortune is equivalent to the whole health budget for Ethiopia, a country of 105 million people.
I pondered it, and I don’t like it! But better and smarter people than I have pondered the economic inequities of the world, and no one ever comes up with an answer.