"""50 Cent, Computers, and Doctor: The Other 98%  RICHEST 62 PEOPLEAS WEALTHY AS  HALFOF WORLD'S POPULATION  TELL ME WHY WE CAN'TRAISE  MINIMUM WAGE AGAIN?  IF YOU HAVE ANETWORTHOFJUST$1.  YOU ARE ASWEALTHYAS30% OF THE  WORLD'S POPULATION!  WHO AMONGUSISNT""""GUILTY""""?  -WeArecapitalists- The """"that guy has more than us"""" narrative is getting old.  Stop adding up the wealth of the poor to """"prove a point,"""" because it's misleading.  Here's why.   If you have a net worth of just $1, you have more wealth than 2,000,000,000 people COMBINED.  How?  Because """"if you take the bottom 30% of the world's population — the poorest 2 billion people in the world — their total aggregate net worth is not low, it's not zero, it's negative. To the tune of roughly half a trillion dollars. My niece, who just got her first 50 cents in pocket money, has more money than the poorest 2 billion people in the world combined.""""[1]  That same $1 makes you richer than 40% of Americans,[2] who combined have a net of $0.  Between 20%-25% of Americans have negative net worth,[3] while the 2nd quintile's meager net worth offset the 1st's negative worth to a balance of $0.  Now consider this: of the global poorest decile (bottom 10%), Americans make up 10% of that, while less than 1% of the poorest are from China [4, Page 12, Figure 7], a country where the majority of the people could only dream of being as well off as the poorest Americans.  That's right, 10% of Americans are worth less than a poor person from China!  How could that be?  Because while the poor in China have next to nothing, over 20% of Americans have LESS than nothing.  Why is that?  Think about this: a typical 18 year old kid who is working for minimum wage at McDonald's has more wealth than a typical 27 year old doctor.  Because that doctor is fresh out of medical school, with an average of $170,000 in student loans.  Before his first paycheck, car payment, or rent, that doctor has a net worth of negative $170,000 [5].  Who would you rather b"""
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