Rich People and Businesses
Today there is more money in the world than ever before. The 20 richest countries have an economy of over $100 trillion dollars every year. If that money was divided for every person on earth, we would all receive $15,000. That would be $1,250 (ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FIFTY U.S. DOLLARS) a month for each person, even every baby! Every day we could spend $40. If we had a family of five people (wife and three children), we could spend $200 or $6,000 a month. This is only the money the richest countries make and does not include the trillions and trillions of dollars the other 200 not-so-rich countries make. If you put all the money that the whole world makes every year, divide it up, we would get a lot more than just $15 ,000 a year.
Rich businesses are owned by rich people. Rich businesses control everything in our life and we have to do business with them, but it is better to not to trust them or think of them as our friends. Rich businesses are greedy and they want more and more of poor people’s money and they invent different ways to get it. We will see different ways they do this.