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The next group has 3.9, 11.3, and the richest group has 84-85 percent of the
wealth.
They wanted to give them about 10 percent of the
wealth.
The next group, 14 percent of the wealth, 21, 22 and 32.
Now, we can ask these questions, by the way, not just about
wealth.
So what about other outcomes of
wealth?
Wealth
is not just about
wealth.
And across all of those things, what we learned was that people don't like inequality of wealth, but there's other things where inequality, which is an outcome of wealth, is even more aversive to them: for example, inequality in health or education.
Share of Income Going to Labor vs. CEO-to-Worker Compensation Ratio"] Now, higher profit margins do not increase societal
wealth.
Because if the top 10 percent of American families own 90 percent of the stocks, as they take a greater share of corporate profits, then there's less
wealth
left for the rest of society.
But I'm pleading for recognition that with increased
wealth
and profits has to come greater corporate social responsibility.
CA: A lot of people look at the hedge fund industry now and are sort of ... shocked by it, by how much
wealth
is created there, and how much talent is going into it.
They've written books and columns and given passionate speeches, decrying the
wealth
gap that is leaving more and more people entrenched at the bottom end of the income scale.
Individually, we don't have a lot of
wealth
and power, but collectively, we are unstoppable.
Well, we asked a team of economists at Deloitte who checked and crunched the numbers, and they came back and said, well, look: if the world's average
wealth
goes from $14,000 a year to $23,000 a year, social progress is going to increase from 61 to 62.4.
We have countries that are underperforming on social progress, relative to their
wealth.
Russia has lots of natural resource wealth, but lots of social problems.
So let's get a little bit more optimistic and say, what if every country gets a little bit better at turning its
wealth
into well-being?
What if every country in the world chose to be like Costa Rica in prioritizing human well-being, using its
wealth
for the well-being of its citizens?
And yet despite all that hard work being done for us and all that
wealth
that we gain, we have done almost everything we possibly could to destroy that.
Well, the lessons aren't about
wealth
or fame or working harder and harder.
Just like the millennials in that recent survey, many of our men when they were starting out as young adults really believed that fame and
wealth
and high achievement were what they needed to go after to have a good life.
So the more capitalism succeeds in taking the demos out of democracy, the taller the twin peaks and the greater the waste of human resources and humanity's
wealth.
But his vast
wealth
was only one piece of his rich legacy.
The world first witnessed the extent of Mansa Musa's
wealth
in 1324 when he took his pilgrimage to Mecca.
This journey reportedly took over a year, and by the time Mansa Musa returned, tales of his amazing
wealth
had spread to the ports of the Mediterranean.
Perhaps one day, we'll see gold rushes to tap the mineral
wealth
of the other planets of our solar system.
The best quote I've ever heard to summarize the thoughts that I've just given you about pulling people out of poverty is as follows: "Free markets have created more
wealth
than any system in history.
These are national stores of
wealth
that countries keep to protect themselves against currency crises.
As
wealth
goes up in a society, the suicide rate goes up instead of down.
Now with all this beauty, usefulness and wealth, mathematics does look more sexy.
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