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Imagine 1.6% of the earth receiving nearly 50% of all sunlight, and 82% of the earth only receiving 12% of all precipitation. If rain distribution and solar li
by mjamesaustin 4mo ago
Imagine 1.6% of the earth receiving nearly 50% of all sunlight, and 82% of the earth only receiving 12% of all precipitation.
If rain distribution and solar light distribution were even half as unequal as wealth distribution, our global ecosystem would collapse.
- zeroonetwothree 4mo agoWealth is not income. Most of the world has zero or negative wealth so these types of calculations are kind of silly. A better comparison would be imagine 1.6% of the earth having 50% of the valuable minerals. But that’s roughly what it actually is!