One brutal sentence captures what a disaster money in America has become

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7. The 26 richest people in the world have more wealth than the bottom 50% (3.8 plus billion people)

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jan/21/world-26-richest-people-own-as-much-as-poorest-50-per-cent-oxfam-report

At current trends, it may take only the top 15 to 18 or so in a year or two to equal the bottom half, the number of billionaires owning as much wealth as half the world’s population fell from 43 in 2017 to 26 last year. In 2016 the number was 61.