This game takes general income and wealth statistics and
converts them into the number of friends out of one hundred that
would match each statistical group. Stuff like this: The richest
1% of adults in the world own 40% of the planet's wealth,
according to the largest study yet of wealth distribution. The
report also finds that those in financial services and the
internet sectors predominate among the super rich. Ok. So one of
the 100 friends gets 40 chocolate cakes, the other 60 chocolate
cakes have to feed the other 99. What next? Perhaps this: The
bottom half of the population owned merely 1.1 percent of the
globe's wealth. The net worth of the world's typical person —
whose wealth was above that of half the world's population and
below that of the other half —was under $2,200. The widening gap
between the global haves and the have-nots in large measure
reflects the failure of less- developed countries to develop,
while rich countries — particularly the United States — have
experienced fast economic growt