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Bill Gates has a net worth in the $100 billions

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Bill Gates has a net worth in the $100 billions.  In 2006, he...

Bill Gates has a net worth in the $100 billions.  In 2006, he earned $7.8 billion a year. That is $20 million a day and $250 a second.

In contrast, in the United States, approximately 40 million live in poverty.  There are 750,000 Americans who are homeless on a given night, with one in five considered chronically homeless.

Do you believe that the drastic economic inequality between persons like Bill Gates (LeBron James, Warren Buffett, Donald Trump, Tiger Woods, etc.) and persons in poverty is just?  Why or why not?  Defend your view.