On Monday, BuzzFeed headlined, these eight men own as much wealth as half the world.

This vital bit of information came with this supporting fact, courtesy of BuzzFeed's special correspondent James Ball, and UK editorial developer Chris Applegate, quote,

the world's eight richest men are worth $426 billion.

The world's poorest, 3.7 billion people together own $409 billion, $17 billion less.

These statistics came courtesy of Oxfam.

BuzzFeed Tuttuts, quote,

The findings shed stark light on the scale of inequality across the world,

with the figures also revealing that the wealthiest 1% of the population together

own more than the remaining 99% combined.

The eight men who own as much as half the world are Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Zara founder

Amancia Ortego, U.S. investor Warren Buffett, Carlos Slim Hilo, owner of Mexican conglomerate

Grupo Carso, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Oracle, co-founder

Larry Ellison,

and businessmen and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Oxfam, which routinely stumps for global redistributionism, bewailed the wealth divide,

said, quote, while one in nine people on the planet will go to bed hungry tonight,

a small handful of billionaires have so much wealth they would need several lifetimes to spend it.

The fact that a super rich elite are able to prosper at the expense of the rest of us at home and

overseas shows how warped our economy has become.

Inequality is not only keeping millions of people trapped in poverty, it is fracturing our

societies and poisoning our politics.

First off, there is no indicator anywhere in this report that the wealth of the world's

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