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>About a billion people are living on a dollar a day or less. The number of people living at this level is going down. That’s good... Bill Gates has an estimate
by dTal 6y ago
>About a billion people are living on a dollar a day or less. The number of people living at this level is going down. That’s good... Bill Gates has an estimated worth over one hundred billion dollars. He could eliminate a category of poverty without changing the number of digits in any box on his tax forms.
I don't think giving 1 day's wages to the world can be construed as "eliminating a category of poverty".
- ChristianBundy 6y agoNitpick: It depends on what "over one hundred billions" means. You could only give $1 to 1 billion people of you have $101 billion, but if you have $999 billion then you could give $998 to 1 billion people without violating the digit constraint. My guess is that it's closer to your estimate, about 1 day of wages, but it could be 2.7 years of wages at most.