85 Billionaires and the Better Half by Michael Parenti

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by Michael Parenti
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Originally published February 18, 2014
October 8, 2020

The world’s 85 richest individuals possess as much wealth as the 3.5 billion souls who compose the poorer half of the world’s population, or so it was announced in a report by Oxfam International. The assertion sounds implausible to me. I think the 85 richest individuals, who together are worth many hundreds of billions of dollars, must have far more wealth than the poorest half of our global population.

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