{"id":2554,"date":"2014-10-18T20:16:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T20:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=2554"},"modified":"2014-12-02T20:27:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T20:27:11","slug":"population-and-wealth-a-picture-of-the-sad-obvious-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/population-and-wealth-a-picture-of-the-sad-obvious-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"Population and wealth &#8211; a picture of the sad, obvious inequality."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This graphic from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/economic-and-financial-indicators\/21625811-global-wealth\">The Economist<\/a> sums up what we all know but don&#8217;t like to face (as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rustyrockets\/status\/539839369390350336\">@RustyRockets just pointed out<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/astraea.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/globalwealth20141018.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2555 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/astraea.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/globalwealth20141018-1024x633.png?resize=474%2C293\" alt=\"globalwealth20141018\" width=\"474\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/globalwealth20141018.png?resize=1024%2C633&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/globalwealth20141018.png?resize=300%2C185&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/globalwealth20141018.png?w=1190&amp;ssl=1 1190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So 0.7% of the people have 44% of the wealth, and 68.9% of the people have 2.9% of the wealth.\u00a0 That doesn&#8217;t sound fair, or like democracy, or Christian\/Islamic\/Bhuddist, or &#8230; anything to be proud of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This graphic from The Economist sums up what we all know but don&#8217;t like to face (as @RustyRockets just pointed out). So 0.7% of the people have 44% of the wealth, and 68.9% of the people have 2.9% of the wealth.\u00a0 That doesn&#8217;t sound fair, or like democracy, or Christian\/Islamic\/Bhuddist, or &#8230; anything to be &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/population-and-wealth-a-picture-of-the-sad-obvious-inequality\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Population and wealth &#8211; a picture of the sad, obvious inequality.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-Fc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2557,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions\/2557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}