Who says there's no churn among the classes anymore?

[ksen]

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/meet-the-80-people-who-are-as-rich-as-half-the-world/

Eighty people hold the same amount of wealth as the world’s 3.6 billion poorest people, according to an analysis just released from Oxfam. The report from the global anti-poverty organization finds that since 2009, the wealth of those 80 richest has doubled in nominal terms — while the wealth of the poorest 50 percent of the world’s population has fallen.

To see how much wealth the richest 1 percent and the poorest 50 percent hold, Oxfam used research from Credit Suisse, a Swiss financial services company, and Forbes’s annual billionaires list. Oxfam then looked at how many of the world’s richest people would need to pool their resources to have as much wealth as the poorest 50 percent — and as of March 2014, it was just 80 people.

Four years earlier, 388 billionaires together held as much wealth as the poorest 50 percent of the world.

See? That's 308 layabouts that have had their wealth redistributed to more productive people.

Oh and . . .

If trends continue, the organization projects that the richest 1 percent of people will have more wealth than the remaining 99 percent by 2016.

That's only 17 days away!!!!

And remember that this is not a symptom of a broken economic system.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

OK, the important question - do any of these 80 people have single daughters with bad taste in men? If so, does anyone have their addresses?

 

[Nice Squirrel]

Trump does.

 

[ImGod]

You'll notice that the po people have way more kids than the rich people. That's prolly diluting some of the poor's wealth.

Say for instance those billionares had 2 or 3 extra kids and those poors had 2 or 3 billion less kids it would even out some.

 

[ZiprHead]

OK, the important question - do any of these 80 people have single daughters with bad taste in men? If so, does anyone have their addresses?

I don't know any of those people but I know of a trans woman who thinks she's a 6 year old girl. Will she do?

 

[Tom Sawyer]

OK, the important question - do any of these 80 people have single daughters with bad taste in men? If so, does anyone have their addresses?

I don't know any of those people but I know of a trans woman who thinks she's a 6 year old girl. Will she do?

As long as she's the only child of an elderly billionaire with a heart condition and thinks that prenups are unromantic, I'm willing to make most anything work.

 

[ZiprHead]

I hope you like to cuddle.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

I hope you like to cuddle.

Like, schmike. It's a frigging job. I'm easily distracted by gigantic piles of cash.

 

[ZiprHead]

I like whores.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

I like whores.

Everyone likes whores until they knife you and sell your organs for crack money.

 

[BH]

I like whores to stay on the other side of town and not bother me.