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Re:The Future of Not Working by loteck on Saturday February 25, 2017 @07:42PM (#13734885)
there are about 700m in extreme poverty now, which it defines as living below $2/day. If we gave each of those people $2/day, we'd need $550billion/year

700m × $2 = $1.4b. What am I missing?

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Re:The Future of Not Working by jackcarter on Saturday February 25, 2017 @07:51PM (#13734937)
The multiplication by 365 to get the annual number.
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