4.5 Trillion Dollars
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4,500,000,000,000 is a HUGE number! To put it in perspective let's look at in a few different ways:
4,500,000,000,000 is the
number of cigarette butts littered each year
4,500,000,000,000 is the
amount of natural gas discover recently in Argentina
4,500,000,000,000 is the
amount of euros the EU has approved for aid to the banks
4,500,000,000,000 is
less than half of the total outstanding debt held by the public
4,500,000,000,000 is the
total wealth of the Forbes list of billionaires
4.5 trillion dollars belong to 1,210 people! The Forbes list broke records this year for the number of billionaires and the total worth. Moscow has more billionaires than any other city, the BMOC gained 20.5 billion dollars this past year, Facebook has spawned 6 billionaires and a Russian internet investor is the youngest billionaire (by 8 days over Zuckerberg) at 26 years old!
Just think what you or I could do with just a small fraction of the wealth these 1,210 people have! If they were to give away one million dollars to people until it was all gone, there would be 4.5 million new millionaires in the world! Would those 4.5 million people be able to make the same changes in the world as the 1.210 could? I doubt it.....human nature would cause us to spend that money on things for us and/or our families not on the things that would benefit millions more people. Take Bill Gates fro an example.....Bill would be the number one on the list had he not given away $30 billion dollars to his non-profit foundation. Others on this list have given untold amounts of money to help people across the world.
Still, just think how much new computer stuff you or I could get with just a small fraction of that money!!
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