Population and wealth – a picture of the sad, obvious inequality.

This graphic from The Economist sums up what we all know but don’t like to face (as @RustyRockets just pointed out).

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So 0.7% of the people have 44% of the wealth, and 68.9% of the people have 2.9% of the wealth.  That doesn’t sound fair, or like democracy, or Christian/Islamic/Bhuddist, or … anything to be proud of.

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