One years' increase in wealth of a single pharma billionaire could pay for the Ebola crisis x3

[ND-Dem]

To put the funding for the Ebola crisis in perspective, the World Bank estimates that the economic costs to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone was $356m in output forgone in 2014, and a further $815m in 2015 if the epidemic is slow to be contained.21

The largest increase in wealth between 2013 and 2014 by a single pharma-related billionaire could pay the entire $1.17bn cost for 2014–15 three times over.

Stefano Pessina22 increased his net worth by $4bn, from $6.4bn to $10.4bn in a single year; the largest single increase in wealth of all the billionaires listed with pharmaceutical and healthcare interests.

http://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/file_attachments/ib-wealth-having-all-wanting-more-190115-en.pdf

[enough]

1. k&r (nt)

[laundry_queen]

2. It makes me want to vomit

that the richest people in the world could get together and end world hunger, and diseases like ebola. And just choose not to.

[ND-Dem]

3. me too. but i'd prefer the richest were less rich, and that the citizens of the world were in

charge of those things, instead of the richest 'getting together'.

it was a better world when democracy was the general idea, instead of this dog eat dog eating the crumbs from the masters table arrangement we're currently imprisoned in.