[AnotherUnixGeek]

The combined wealth of the world’s richest 85 people is now equivalent to that owned by half of the world’s population—or 3.5 billion of the poorest people—according to a new report from Oxfam.

Well then - let's immediately strip every penny from these 85 people and share that money equally among those 3.5 billion of the poorest people. And then, when absolutely no appreciable difference is made in the lives of those 3.5 billion people by this act, let's maybe take a moment to realize that the dreaded problem of "income inequality" is just a fig leaf for self-righteous envy, and that the leftists who keep talking about this problem don't want it solved, they want it to grow and fester to give them cover for more taxes.

[Olog-hai]

Of course. Just another power grab via demagoguery.

[Secret Agent Man]

thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s goods.

[Pollster1]

Well then - let's immediately strip every penny from these 85 people and share that money equally among those 3.5 billion of the poorest people.

Actually, that $1.83T translates to $520 per person and would make an appreciable difference in their lives for a year or in some cases for as long as three years. The big difference would be what happened when that money was gone. I don't want to see what the world would look like for the poor (and these people would remain desperately poor) if we wiped out the wealth of our 85 most productive individuals.

[Nailbiter]

“Well then - let’s immediately strip every penny from these 85 people”

Lets experiment- starting with Soros and working on down from that point.