Food for Thought: The Rich Do Not Get Rich at Expense of the Poor [Video]

Unskool / Thomas Sowell : Jul 10, 2026
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[Thomas Sowell Substack] ...There are more billionaires in the United States than in all of Africa and the Middle East combined. And yet the poor in America live better, by almost any measurable standard, than the poor in either of those regions. If wealth at the top really did drain resources from the bottom, that shouldn't be possible. The math should run the other way. It doesn't. And Sowell built an entire body of work explaining why. Here's the question worth sitting with for a second. If billionaires were the reason for poverty, wouldn't the places with the fewest billionaires have the least poverty? They don't. Not even close... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here Click Here to read. (Screengrab image: via Substack-Deskooled)