by David Safier
A labor economist at UC Berkeley came up with this stat. Six of the children of Sam and James “Bud” Walton, the founders of Wal-Mart, have a combined wealth equal to the entire bottom 30% of the U.S. economy. Their combined wealth "was $69.7 billion in 2007," the year they equaled the bottom 30%. As of 2011, that number bumped up to $93 billion, but we don't have the more current stats on the rest of the population, so we don't know how many more people it will take to equal their riches.
I'm sure they earned their money the hard way, which is becoming more and more the American way. They inherited it.
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