44 million to 1

We recently learned from Forbes that the 85 richest humans have as much wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion which means that each of those 85 richest has 44 million times as much wealth as that of the mean of the poorest half of the worlds population.  Thinking of how poor the poorest humans are makes me wonder if more can be done by those of us who do have our basic needs met.  Unfortunately, I spend more time thinking about the wealth concentration problem and talking about solutions than actually getting out there and doing something about it.

ashes to ashes