A back-of-the-envelope reality check
When could the world's richest
simply help everyone?
Take the 10 richest people, follow how fast their fortunes actually grow, and project forward to the year they could hand $1,000 to every single person alive.
Crunching the numbers…
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Two different escalators: wealth growth at the top vs. the bottom half
Avg. fortune, top 10 · —/yr
Avg. wealth, poorest 50% · 3%/yr
To put that pile in perspective…
Who's in the pool (top 10 by latest net worth)
≈ marks an approximate figure — a ballpark for a well-known billionaire whose exact Forbes annual number couldn't be cleanly sourced. Edit the data to sharpen it.