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shaunlgson Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett Are Richer Than Poorest Half of US

Yep, I definitely feel better already, its only $248.5bn more money to reach > 50%! /s

shaunlgson Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett Are Richer Than Poorest Half of US

The article is talking about cumulative of those poorer 50%, heck I, living in a third world country am richer than 60% of Americans too.

shaunlgson China's Race to Find Aliens First

I get that reference.

shaunlgson China's central bank governor publicly warns of rising risks to financial system

I expect people to predict this will cause the downfall of China.

People had been attributing causes to the downfall of China.

"He is best known for his book The Coming Collapse of China (2001), in which he argued that the hidden nonperforming loans of the "Big Four" Chinese State banks would likely bring down China's financial system and its communist government and China would collapse in 2006, 2011, 2012, 2016, & 2017. Critics say that Chang has destroyed his own credibility by making wrong predictions repeatedly."[0]

Here, Gordon Chang predicted that demographics will be the downfall of China.[1]

Does anyone want to add other causes to the downfall of China?

Being an author trying to make some money off people's wishful thinking is not a bad idea though.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_G._Chang

[1]: http://nationalinterest.org/feature/chinas-self-inflicted-de...

shaunlgson Who Americans spend their time with

Age. I thought it's percentage at first.

shaunlgson Popular People Live Longer

Which begs the question, "What is love?".