Friday, March 18, 2011

A COUPLE OF QUICK STATISTICS

I'm sure you've already heard these stats that have been in the news these past few days and week.

The first is that the site of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster and the land around it will remain uninhabitable for at least three centuries and could still be unusable for humans for as long as a thousand years.

The other is that the top 100 richest "Americans" have as much wealth as the bottom 150,000,000 (that's a hundred-and-fifty million) put together!

Which is one reason why the economic disparity in this country is greater than any other "industrial" country in the world, and many "developing" countries as well (as I've mentioned before, but it still stuns me).

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

so
how many of those 150 million people
do those 100 employ through their businesses?

I mean

if it wasn't for a couple of them and their tv/movie industry you'd have never gotten those character roles...

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