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I can't think of a less interesting statistic. > World's richest 10% produce half of global food. > World's richest 10% produce half of global medicine. > Wo
by tengbretson 7y ago
I can't think of a less interesting statistic.
> World's richest 10% produce half of global food.
> World's richest 10% produce half of global medicine.
> World's richest 10% produce half of global scientific papers.
> World's richest 10% produce half of global interesting things worth reading about.
- inflatableDodo 7y ago> World's richest 10% produce half of global food. Citation required.
- komali2 7y ago> World's richest 10% produce half of global interesting things worth reading about Completely disagree there - the stories I got out of kids in remote Chinese villages were way more interesting than the shit I see on top of news.google.com, and far less depressing to boot.
- sokoloff 7y ago>> World's richest 10% produce half of global food. It's more proper to think of the production of carbon emissions as an act of consumption, making the parallel statement " World's richest 10% consume half of global food." By caloric content, that is almost surely false. By retail price-paid value, that is more likely true (but irrelevant).
- Johnny555 7y ago> World's richest 10% produce half of global food. I'm probably in the world's richest 10% (I earn a decent salary in the SF Bay Area), but I don't produce any of the global food. I know how much a close relative earns on his farm, and his net income for a family of 6 is much less than my income. The bank owns so much of his farm and equipment that his net worth is less than mine too. Some of my stock market investments likely go toward companies involved in food production, but that's a pretty indirect way to claim I'm responsible for any food production.