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The answer to that is that they don't need the money - that's why the vast majority of it is tied up as stock in large corporations. If they were to liquidate their wealth what would happen to those companies. Look at BHAFC - what would happen to the club were TB to sell the shares he has to...

Wealth is of far less importance than income. Their must be millions in the UK who are worse of in terms of wealth than even the poorest indivdual in a third world country - The really poor have wealth very close to zero - many in the UK owe far more than they own so have a negative wealth. On...

I've already explained my take on that at #6. In summary very little would be achieved by doing as you suggest - it's not wealth, (i.e. the thing you own), that makes a difference to people's lives but what is done with that wealth. Giving shares in the world's corporations to the World's...

That's fine, and I don't disagree, as long as it is realised that even those defined as living in 'poverty' in the UK are in the top half of the 'economic pile' and that genuinely redistributing 'wealth' would mean reducing still further their living standards as well as everyone living above...

Those figures sound very dramatic but look at them from another angle. The wealth of the top 85 individuals in the world is going to be made up mainly by ownership of large international corporations employing millions if not billions of people not cash sat in a bank or under the bed. Hand...