Nov 16, 2017

Wakeup-world | Nov 17, 2017 | Now Just FIVE Men Own Almost as Much Wealth as Half the World’s Population | .. Why Do We Let Unqualified Rich People Tell Us How To Live? Especially Bill Gates!. Warren Buffett: Demanding To Be Taxed at a Higher Rate (As Long As His Own Company Doesn’t Have To Pay). Jeff Bezos: $50 Billion in Less Than Two Years, and Fighting Taxes All the Way. Mark Zuckerberg (6th Richest in World, 4th Richest in America). The False Promise of Philanthropy .. |

Last year it was 8 men, then down to 6, and now it’s around 5.
The super-rich are absconding with our wealth, and the plague of inequality continues to grow. An analysis of 2016 data found that the poorest five deciles of the world population own about $410 billion in total wealth. As of June 2017, the world’s richest five men owned over $400 billion in wealth. Thus, on average, each man owns nearly as much as 750 million people.