My daughter asked me this. How would you explain wealth inequality to a 12-year-old?
For context: ex-wife cheated on me and married this extremely wealthy Chinese guy. Crazy wealthy as in entire apartment building in Beijing’s CBD and a mansion out in the Shunyi district as his “main residences”. Daughter lives in China with my ex-wife, her husband and his son. Daughter lives with me during school breaks / holidays.
Fill a sack with 99 jelly beans and the one that’s been marked a marker.
Ask her to pick one out. If it’s the marked one she gets all of the jelly beans.
If she doesn’t pick the marked one, send all but one of the jelly beans to stepdad.