Feudalism redux.
... the world's richest 500 individuals have the same income as the world's poorest 416 million people.Here Kristoff means combined income. It is an astounding ratio, almost 1 to a million. Assuming many people can be "bought" for 10 times their income, each of these 500 lords could pay for 50,000 vassals and still retain half their income. That's a pretty large barony.
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