"The rate at which extreme wealth is growing is astounding: the wealth of global billionaires now reaches the equivalent of 17% of global GDP. This means that if billionaires (about 3,000 households) were to spend all their wealth, they could buy 17% of everything produced in a year globally." Guzman, who co-founded the World Inequality Lab and the World Inequality Database with Piketty, reports other numbers that are thought-provoking: (translated)
