Sociology 2240E Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Wilbert E. Moore, Shool, Social Change
1 Feb 2017
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2011 16% world was making over ,000/year, 16% of the population control 80% of the (cid:449)orld"s goods. If all the world to consume like america, we weed need 5 planets top (cid:1005)% of the (cid:449)orld"s populatio(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)trols (cid:1009)(cid:1005)% of the (cid:449)orld"s (cid:449)ealth. 2017: just 8 billionaires own the same wealth as the poorest 3. 6 billion people (just over half the population!: bill gates. Rejects oxfam the 85 richest people in the world have more wealth than the poorest 3. 5 billion people combined. Higher than the gdp of entire countries nigeria, belgium, iran, norway. Exam: b unicef tells us this is required to feed adequate drinking water to every person on this planet. The richest are accumulating wealth at such an astonishing rate that the world could see its first trillionaire in just 25 years. So, you would need to spend m every day for 2738 years to spend t.
