Facts

Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, has a net worth of 138.2 billion US dollars.

If you gave a newborn baby a million dollars every single day for the rest of its life, it would still be more than 111 billion dollars short of Jeff Bezos, since the average human lives to 72. But even if that baby broke the record age for the oldest person and lived to 122 years and 165 days (breaking Jeanne Calment's record by a day...), it would have a little more than 44 billion dollars, nearly 100 BILLION dollars short of Jeff Bezos.

I don't know why this shocked me so much.

Maybe because there are 2,208 billionaires in the world, their money combining to about 9.1 trillion dollars, and yet...

more than three billion people (almost half the world's population) are in poverty

821 million people suffer from chronic hunger

one person commits suicide every 40 seconds

1.6 billion people lack adequate housing

22,000 kids die every day because of poverty

1.2 million children drop out of high school in the United States alone each year

An estimated 600,000 to 800,000 men, women, and children are trafficked each year

80% of the world population lives on less than ten dollars a day

2 million children die each year because of preventable diseases they can't afford to cure

They say that money can't solve your problems.

But for these people and so many more,

it could go a long way.

9.1 trillion dollars

maybe it can't solve every issue in the universe

but it could do a lot more than sitting and waiting for someone else to step up.

And yes, many of these billionaires are helping their communities

but how many aren't?

How many of us that are able to give a little

choose not to?

How many of us are waiting for someone to make the first step

before we do?

so we don't have to?

To the people that can:

DO IT.

Donating some money to charity

Giving clothes to those in need

Maybe it will only help one person

but that's one more person than before

one more person who will sleep better at night

one more person who will live to see tomorrow

one

more

person

That's all anyone can ask.