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There are 7 billion people in the world and only 70 matter

7 pointsby fezzlover 13 years ago

4 comments

dazzawazzaover 13 years ago
You could equally read it as "There are 7 billion people in the world and these are the 70 people most dependant on them for their power, wealth and security."
gazrogersover 13 years ago
Of course, if you took away the other 6,999,999,930 away, the 70 that "matter" would find life infinitely harder. So perhaps we aren't as pointless the title suggests.
hopelessover 13 years ago
When I saw the title I thought it was about social networks: there are 7bn people in this world and you only care about 70 of them. I imagine that could be equally true.
zeroonetwothreeover 13 years ago
Forbes is pretty silly. Those people have much less power than they think. The #1 ranked person has a good chance of losing his job in a year.