Wealth, shown to scale
These people may see themselves as fabulously rich, and often oppose policies aimed at reducing inequality. But many have not fully grasped the enormous gulf between themselves and the super rich. We can have a world in which wealthy people exist, without handing nearly all money to the super rich. No single human needs or deserves this much wealth. A trillion dollars is such a large figure, that you might as well say "eleventy gajillion zillion dollars." So in this section, we will try to understand the scale of this figure by looking at what could be accomplished with various chunks of this wealth. As we proceed, try to keep in mind: all of this wealth is controlled by a group so small, that they could fit on a single 747 airplane—with 260 seats left over. Based on the cost of vaccines and the cost of delivery, it would take around $200 billion to vaccinate every person on earth, which is about 6% of the wealth currently controlled by 400 Americans. After paying for this vaccination
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