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Thursday, December 01, 2005

While reading Jonathan Schwartz's blog the other day, I followed a link to an article titled "The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid".  In the article, the authors make a case for creating products and services aimed at the 4 billion people on the 4th tier of the world economic pyramid.  It is an interesting read, but the thing the struck me is the economic pyramid itself (Exhibit 1 of the article).  I have heard my whole life that 5% of the population controls 95% of the wealth.  I assume the saying applies to North America, where a large percentage of people are in Tier 1.  I find it mind boggling that 5% of the 1.7% (0.00085%) of the world has all the money.  Pretty crazy.

Posted by jordan lutes 12/1/2005 7:56:55 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
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