Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "How the World’s Wealthiest People Travel" video.
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Whenever the topic is wealth gap/disparity, math and statistics always comes to mind... forgive me if my numbers are wrong, and please correct me because I'm always interested in this.
I think it's always interesting to try to put things in perspective because the numbers are so insane it's hard to really understand it.
So, for instance... I think last time I looked into this, here's some interesting math to consider, if I'm right that is - if you somehow took the money from the 1% richest worldwide, and redistributed it entirely to all the people falling bellow the poverty line, everyone on that category would get something like a hundred thousand dollars each. It may not sound like much considering how much money is concentrated on that 1%, but this is because the world has 2 billion people still bellow the poverty line. 2 billion of the global total of almost 8 billion, so 25% of the entire global population.
That money would work differently depending on what country you live in, what the standards for bellow poverty line are, and what you can pay for with that kinda money... in some countries you could live comfortably for the rest of your life with only that, in some you wouldn't be able to even buy a home. It really gives you a sense on how big the wealth gap is though.
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