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A Deeper Dive into Wealth Inequality Data

Globally… 2,660 billionaires comprise $13.76 trillion in wealth, 183,000 multimillionaires with $50 to $999,999,999 million each comprise $36.4 trillion in wealth, 3.6 million multimillionaires with $5 to $49 million each comprise $75.3 trillion (Patriotic Millionaires, 2022). These numbers include data from 66 countries but, keep in in mind, there are 195 countries (Worldometer, 2022). I did not dig deep enough to say for certain, but suspect wealth was only measured for 66 countries instead of all 195 because the amount of individuals who fall into one of the three wealth categories above is probably negligible or immeasurable. The total wealth of these 3,785,660 individuals is $125.46 trillion. The total net wealth of the entire world is $431 trillion (Forbes, 2021). The total population of the world is approximately 7,945,914,950 billion (Worldometer, 2022). Therefore, .000476% of the world's population control 29.11% of the world's financial wealth and real assets. Per Credit…

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Awesome response!

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Double whammy for unpaid interns…

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My 70yo co-worker is about to die, he never retired.

I work in a sub contractor steel structure plans drafting company and most workers are over 45 yo. Most of them plans to retire by 65yo. One of my coworker is 70yo and he is in hospital now. This weekend he passed out for undisclosed reasons. He was not really performing at job lately. He was not really “there”. My boss said we need someone that have more mental clarity. Another, about 60 yo took a 1 month break to relax because “he don't feel right”. I remember my father saying he won at life if he retires before 65yo. He won, after a life of hating his jobs, but being a hard worker. He may be the last. Personally I don't plan to retire before 75 yo. I hope to buy a trailer park for less than 200 000$ by my 40s and pays it off by 70yo. I…

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If there’s so many jobs why doesn’t my landlord get one

Sick of that man depending on my rent. Nobody wants to work anymore.

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As someone who’s sat through job interviews only to get ghosted without even a rejection email, I can’t help but feel a little giddy reading this

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Employers just don’t want to work anymore, why do I have to repeat something if I already gave them my resume?

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Vent but also advice pls! After mistakenly not getting enough time off, I’m burnt out and can’t get motivated to work.

Our HR company had my PTO rate at part-time even though I’ve been full-time for two years. I had no idea. This is my first full-time job with actual benefits so I had no idea how that stuff works. Luckily, my job fired the HR company and gave me my missed PTO so I have a ton of PTO that I can take. Though, I feel guilty taking the time off. We’re at a time where there’s a lot of expansion going on and as much as I want/need the time off for my sanity, I know the work is just going to fall on someone else. The program I am in charge of is run by me exclusively so someone else will have to step in. I just feel like it’d be more work for me when I get back anyway. I feel so burnt out. I just got…

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Building private jets might be less profitable then you think

Just got offered a position to install structural elements in 130M USD private jets. The pay was 20.77$ CAD, roughly 16.35$ USD Yeah, no.

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Legit what I tell my kids, we are very aware of this situation in which we find ourselves. There is another way, but we like wars and things more than we like peace and universal abundance. Imagine what 9 billion humans could accomplish if money was no object.