{"id":27719,"date":"2015-02-09T21:18:15","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T21:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.trueactivist.com\/?p=27719"},"modified":"2019-02-14T06:31:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T06:31:02","slug":"what-this-one-percenter-says-about-the-worlds-poorest-3-5-billion-people-is-not-fantastic-news-t1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/what-this-one-percenter-says-about-the-worlds-poorest-3-5-billion-people-is-not-fantastic-news-t1\/","title":{"rendered":"What This One-Percenter Says About The World&#8217;s Poorest 3.5 Billion People Is NOT &#8220;Fantastic News&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, Oxfam released a shocking statistic on global wealth <a title=\"Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies\" href=\"https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/gab_gallery\/richard-wilkinson-how-economic-inequality-harms-societies\/\">inequality<\/a> and rising <a title=\"What is the future of income inequality in the U.S.?\" href=\"https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/gab_gallery\/what-is-the-future-of-income-inequality-in-the-u-s\/\">poverty<\/a>: the wealth of the world&#8217;s 85 <a title=\"World\u2019s 100 Richest Could End Global Poverty 4 Times Over\" href=\"https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/worlds-100-richest-could-end-global-poverty-4-times-over\/\">riches<\/a>t people is now equal to that of\u00a0the world&#8217;s <a title=\"1 in 4 UK kids to live in poverty by 2020\" href=\"https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/1-in-4-uk-kids-to-live-in-poverty-by-2020\/\">poorest<\/a> 3.5 billion people. Most of us would fail to find anything positive in this alarming news, but most of us aren&#8217;t as filthy rich as Kevin O&#8217;Leary.<\/p>\n<p>In an episode of The Lang and O&#8217;Leary Exchange, the\u00a0Canadian\u00a0venture capitalist gave an illuminating demonstration of how obscene <a title=\"Give 2 Minutes to Understand How the Wealthy Keep the Poor Folks Poor\" href=\"https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/give-2-minutes-to-understand-how-the-wealthy-keep-the-poor-folks-poor\/\">wealth<\/a> can cause an <a title=\"This Is Why Rich People Don\u2019t Care About You\" href=\"https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/this-is-why-rich-people-dont-care-about-you\/\">empathy<\/a> deficit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is fantastic news and of course I applaud it,&#8221; he proclaims to his open-mouthed co-host Amanda Lang. When she\u00a0protests that an\u00a0African living on a dollar a day wouldn&#8217;t share his opinion, O&#8217;Leary simply argues that Oxfam&#8217;s data should\u00a0<a title=\"This Video Will Inspire You to Change the World\" href=\"https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/gab_gallery\/this-video-will-inspire-you-to-change-the-world\/\">inspire<\/a> the world&#8217;s poorest people to be the next Bill <a title=\"Bill Gates Wants World\u2019s Poor To Drink Human Faeces, And Everyone Thinks That\u2019s OK\" href=\"https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/bill-gates-wants-worlds-poor-to-drink-human-faeces-and-everyone-thinks-thats-ok\/\">Gates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He goes on to say: &#8220;It&#8217;s a celebratory stat, I&#8217;m very excited about it,&#8221; and: &#8220;If you work hard, you might get stinking rich.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What planet is this man\u00a0living on?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, Oxfam released a shocking statistic on global wealth inequality and rising poverty: the wealth of the world&#8217;s 85 richest people is now equal to that of\u00a0the world&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3030,"featured_media":27787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[108,558,66,25,6],"tags":[1261,1260,1781,1262,1263],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What This One-Percenter Says About The World&#039;s Poorest 3.5 Billion People Is NOT &quot;Fantastic News&quot; 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