oxfam

So in that context the absolute wealth, in the way that Oxfam measured it, is relevant.

Rather than chase the $$$ consider taking your idea to Oxfam - a British charity known for selling donated clothes.

Crack the UK with a partner such as Oxfam and then the other markets will follow, maybe with different partners.

Take a break for half a year or something anyway, and then have a look at the Oxfam thing, it sounds cool.

If not Oxfam then there are plenty of other charities that might be interested.

A less rhetorically gifted Oxfam staffer might have written instead that the world’s richest 80 people own around 0.7 percent of global wealth.

Things that don't sell might as well go to the Oxfam shop as a donation - the app takes people half way there.

From a customer standpoint they really might be pleased to pay a premium to Oxfam if their clothes are going to a good home.

Yesterday I read the Oxfam report that 85 people own half of the world's wealth.

Trying to partner with Oxfam is a brilliant idea.

Then perhaps a better response to the Oxfam report would be to at least attempt a more realistic measurement of wealth and present something similar with that addition/adjustment.

I think that a PPP adjustment is required here to produce a reasonable analysis This article is in response to the recent Oxfam report which talked about the wealth of the global 1%.

"Oxfam estimates that the richest 85 people in the world own half of all wealth." This is not what Oxfam's estimates say, it contradicts them.

Do you consider a company like Raspberry Pi or Oxfam to "exist to make money"?

The Oxfam text is called: "Wealth: Having it all and wanting more".

"Of the remaining 52% of global wealth, almost 46% is owned by the rest of the richest fifth of the world's population, Oxfam said." So that's 94% of human wealth concentrated in the top 20% of humans.

Expanding the total to include the top 85 would probably produce about the same results as Oxfam's report over a century later.

I've seen fundraising campaigns from the big charities (Oxfam, Unicef etc) where they put a price on different interventions.

Sure there would be postage to pay that might mean people are making pennies on outfits that cost pounds, but this would be psychologically okay if money is going to Oxfam.