"Specifically, the world’s billionaires – the richest 2,000 people on the planet – saw their wealth increase by a staggering $762 billion in just one year. That’s an average of $381 million apiece. If those billionaires had simply been content with staying at their 2016 wealth, and had given their one-year gains to the world’s poorest people instead, then extreme poverty would have been eradicated."
This kind of blew my mind (though of course it's not as simple as just giving). Full report here - https://d1tn3vj7xz9fdh.cloudfront.net/s3fs-public/file_attac...