Re: UN: Richest 2% of adults own more than half of global household wealth
On Dec 5, 2006, at 9:46 AM, bitch wrote:
I remember that, the other thing they’d said was that, were we to
disburse the world’s wealth evenly, everyone would have $60k a year
— which was a fuckload of money in 1985.
This is about wealth, not income.
World per capita GDP is around $9,500. So I don’t know where that
$60k comes from, unless it’s global wealth divided evenly. Since the
US has about a quarter of world GDP, if you multiply US household
assets ($66b) by 4 and divide by the world pop, you get around
$45,000 per person. Maybe that’s it?
Doug