I'm going to make this post educational, and by educational I mean shocking and depressing, because if there's anything I've learned in this realm of higher education, it's that the more you learn about the world the more depressing the world seems and the more you realize how horrible humans really are. Have fun!
So here are some lovely facts recently compiled by UN in a study on global inequality:
1) The richest fifth of the world's people consume 86% of all products, while the poorest fifth purchases 1.3% (this includes everything from meat to paper to cars).
2) The 3 richest persons in the world have assets greater than the combined Gross Domestic Products (all the finished goods produced by a country in a year) of the 48 poorest nations. In other words, if the 3 richest people sold everything they owned, they could buy the total output of these 48 countries.
3) If the poorest 47% of the world's people (that's about 2.5 billion) pooled their yearly incomes, they could just purchase the assets of the world's wealthiest 225 individuals.
4) A tax of 4% levied on the wealth of these same 225 wealthy people would pay for basic and adequate health care, food, clean water, and safe sewers for EVERY PERSON ON EARTH.
Can you believe it?
-Ashley
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2 comments:
sigh...it's a sad sad thing....and sad for everyone....because money cannot guarantee happiness and oftentimes will just F you up...but it will feed your children, there's no denying that...and on another sad note, i miss you two terribly...and love you both dearly....ash, the butterfly pics are really cool...,
love, mama
That is really depressing. I love that you care.
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