Dear God,

Today, I read a study by the World Institute for Development Economics Research that concludes that only one percent of the world’s people control 40 percent of the world’s wealth, and that 90 percent of the world’s people are forced to share just one percent of the world’s wealth.

This seems outrageously unjust to me. They say that you are omnibenevolent, purely good. If that’s true, how can you allow such injustice to continue in the world?

- Pierre

Pierre,

This system of distribution of wealth seems unjust to you only because you don’t know all the facts. What you didn’t know is that that big 90 percent chunk of economically poor people around the world in fact have much better representation in other areas of human life.

Did you know, for example, that the 90 percent of the world that is so much financially poorer than everybody else in fact has a much higher representation of their folk music on Putamayo albums of world music? It’s true.

Also, those poor people you seem so concerned about require much less medication for depression. Why, the percentage of people in that bottom 90 percent who take Prozac every day is much lower than the number of people in the most wealthy one percent who take Prozac every day.

Also, people in the 90 percent that is more poor are documented to have fewer instances of mechanical problems with their second cars.

See? If you take the time to look at the details, you’ll find that this supposed injustice all comes out in the wash. The world truly is just, as I have ordained it to be.

- God

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