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		loteck on Feb 26, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Future of Not Working there are about 700m in extreme poverty now, which it defines as living below $2/day. If we gave each of those people $2/day, we'd need $550billion/year 700m × $2 = $1.4b. What am I missing?

jackcarter on Feb 26, 2017 [–]

The multiplication by 365 to get the annual number.

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