orld's 8 Richest Men Have Wealth Equal to Half the Population

[Never_Enough]

Let that sink in for a minute
http://www.investopedia.com/news/wo...topedia.com&utm_term=8629118&utm_medium=email

 

[nxhappy]

welp....that's the way the world works lol

I'm sure some will say it's unfair.

 

[Blown 89]

I read somewhere that those results are complete nonsense but I can't find the link. If it's not I don't care...if you want more money do something about it

 

[CV355]

It's not really all that astonishing when you look at most bell curves. The 0.001% bin is filled with anomalies on both sides. Plus, it's fuzzy math where interpretation/calculation methods can skew results.

Look at Bitcoin- it's the same way.

Remember, someone on Earth is the tallest midget alive. It keeps things in perspective.

 

[Buckwheat 1]

Even more disturbing if the Democrats confiscated it all, The wealth be pissed away in 6 months.

 

[598]

2 foreigners are socialists, and the others are all democrats with a socialist agenda. But the press, part of which is owned by members of this list, say the republicans are the money grubbing greedy ones. Ellison might be an exception, as he gives to both parties.

 

[Screw-Rice]

This is one of the most asinine "revelations" to make ink (text). Brought to you by Oxfam who pushes redistributionism of wealth.

While 1 in 9 people on the planet will go to bed hungry tonight, a small handful of billionaires have so much wealth they would need several lifetimes to spend it. The fact that a super-rich elite are able to prosper at the expense of the rest of us at home and overseas shows how warped our economy has become. Inequality is not only keeping millions of people trapped in poverty, it is fracturing our societies and poisoning our politics.

There is no indicator anywhere in this report that the wealth of the world’s eight wealthiest men was ill-gotten. The quest for income equality is a fool’s errand. That’s because the only way to rectify imbalances is to punish successful risk-taking. The reason investors make greater profits than those who do the actual work is because the investors take the risks necessary to create a profit margin with which to pay those people. Oxfam neglects to mention where the world’s poorest people live: according to the World Bank, two-thirds of the world’s poorest human beings live in India, China, Nigeria, Bangladesh, and Congo.

 

[DropSVT]

I heard this on the radio this morning. The host also said it only takes 394k a year to become apart of the 1%.

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[hoamskilet]

Then I guess all those greedy liberals in that list need to start emptying their bank accounts to the poor

 

[SolarYellow]

What does jealousy feel like?

 

[nxhappy]

Even more disturbing if the Democrats confiscated it all, The wealth be pissed away in 6 months.

LOL that's the troof troof

 

[CV355]

Perhaps this is naivety, but does anyone stop to consider that being that wealthy must be an awful lot like playing a video game with cheats enabled?

I mean, what's the challenge at that point? Who can buy a larger yacht?

Don't get me wrong- give me $1B and I'd have a field day, but at what point does life get stale?

 

[nxhappy]

Perhaps this is naivety, but does anyone stop to consider that being that wealthy must be an awful lot like playing a video game with cheats enabled?

I mean, what's the challenge at that point? Who can buy a larger yacht?

Don't get me wrong- give me $1B and I'd have a field day, but at what point does life get stale?

I like cheats enabled

 

[Never_Enough]

Perhaps this is naivety, but does anyone stop to consider that being that wealthy must be an awful lot like playing a video game with cheats enabled?

I mean, what's the challenge at that point? Who can buy a larger yacht?

Don't get me wrong- give me $1B and I'd have a field day, but at what point does life get stale?

See my username.

 

[Machdup1]

I applaud them. They have made the world a better place.

 

[03cobra#694]

Umm, not the political section.

 

[Buckwheat 1]

If I had a dollar for all my micro aggressions I would be on that list.

 

[nickf2005]

but does anyone stop to consider that being that wealthy must be an awful lot like playing a video game with cheats enabled?

I've never played GTA without cheats... I have a grand time flying my jet, blowing up military helicopters, landing, and erasing my stars.

 

[Blk04L]

Ok?

 

[DSG2003Mach1]

Perhaps this is naivety, but does anyone stop to consider that being that wealthy must be an awful lot like playing a video game with cheats enabled?

I mean, what's the challenge at that point? Who can buy a larger yacht?

Don't get me wrong- give me $1B and I'd have a field day, but at what point does life get stale?

for a lot of those guys its the drive/joy of building something, even once they have all that money they still want to keep improving and/or innovating. The money is just a byproduct it seems

edit: also it says equal to the poorest half of the world, not just half the world.