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That's a bullshit measure! What number of people make more than an arbitrary threshold value does not say anything. Maybe all these people made $90,000 seven years ago, and $100,000 is just the new $90,000 in 2017. It's a large organization, I'm surprised they had only 11 people above $100,000 in 2017.

What point do you think you are making with this citation?

What point do you think you are making with this citation?

The point that Oxfam these days is a business and reports like this are its product, and the metric of success is how much money these products make for Oxfam, not how much good they do. They technically still are a charity but they have strayed very far from their roots.

The piece of data you cite has, at best, a tangential relationship to the conclusion you want to rest on it.

Can you explain why you feel that citation supports this point? Because it doesn’t appear to be related at all.

"You gotta increase inequality to fight inequality!"