I don’t know what kind of math you’re using,

Someone elsewhere here wrote it out explicitly, and provided a couple sources, so you don’t have to guess.

Half of all the wealth in the world is ABSOLUTELY enough for everyone to live modest but not impoverished lives.

The global top 1.1% is like the Western top 10%, so a lot of people that you’d think of as ordinary. Doctors and lawyers, middle managers who have saved as much as they can and are near retirement. Actually, I’m guessing people’s retirement funds make up a shocking amount of this, because it’s such a common form of wealth. Most of the world’s people live paycheck-to-paycheck, or a family-centric version thereof, which is what the other big chunk is about. Their contribution is literally just the items they use to live day to day, times billions of heads.

It’s true, if we diverted even a good chunk of that to the world’s poorest we’d have no humanitarian problems at all. Try convincing your average Westerner to give up a noticeable percentage of what they own to Africans, though.

It ABSOLUTELY is not. That extreme wealth is the result of extreme exploitation of poor people and societal structures designed specifically to benefit the already rich at the expense of everyone else and of hoarding of resources that are thus kept from everyone else.

No. I realise we’ve left the realm of facts and moved into a political debate, but it has more to do with some funny math. If exploitation was all it took, there’s a lot of poor assholes that would be rich. That’s all that’s worth the time to say.

For the record, I’m still team eat the rich. You have to actually do boring homework stuff and go to long meetings if you want to sustainably address it, though. Otherwise you’ll be just another leftist organisation that splinters months down the road.