This seems like an important corrective to the numbers in that attention-grabbing headline:

Stop adding up the wealth of the poor

In brief, this is the man at the bottom of those Three Billion Poor; he probably wears, or wore, a Rolex.

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So the numbers are mostly an artifact; I don't mean to say anything to diminish the poignancy of the plight of the world's poor.