[hueving]

Why would anyone read the article when they can take the opportunity to bash the rich?

[meanduck]

The GP is good comment lets not init a flame war here.

[debt]

because the top 8 billionaires own more wealth than the bottom 50% of the global population?

the rich have really been sucking it up lately.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/business/20...

[laingc]

Good grief. Any child with $2 in pocket money has more wealth than 2bn people. If you are a doctor with a massive student loan, you're probably in the bottom 10% of humanity in terms of wealth.

[hueving]

Yet killing these 8 billionaires and taking their wealth would do almost nothing when spread across the bottom 50% you are comparing them to.

You don't raise civilization by chopping off the top.

[tedunangst]

Which is itself a rigged stat.