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JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
About 13M households in the US have negative net worth, so would I have more wealth than 13M US households put together? Without knowing how this figure is calculated, this seems like a meaningless metric. Though the wealth gap is definitely a problem by any metric, I don’t think this metric is very helpful.
MHanak@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That said 3.6B is almost half of the world population
That’s still no good
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Are they counting children? 2.6B people are under the age of 20. How are they counting money for those?
I agree, still not good, but a very useless metric.
nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
It’s only useless if you make things up about it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_of_wealth#/med…