An article about this study received a bit of discussion a day ago: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10922166" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10922166</a>
Alternate headline: 62 people own almost 1% of global wealth. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/29/upshot/why-we-cant-blame-a-few-rich-people-for-global-poverty.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/29/upshot/why-we-cant-blame-a...</a>
What percentage of people have a net worth of zero? If you've got $1000 to your name, are you richer than 48% of the worlds population, by the same metric? Anyone have the data for this?