My coffee money

Melinda Gates wants me to give up my coffee to save the life of a kid by using the 13¢ plus a possible $3 to buy some vaccines. Coffee. Melinda Gates wants MY COFFEE MONEY, presumably once a year.

Bill and Melinda are worth 54 billion dollars. That looks like this when you put some zeros to it: $54,000,000,000.00. My net worth is less. Melinda would have to give up more than coffee to become my equal. She would have to give up 99.9995% of her holdings. Bottom line: she would need to spend $53,999,800,000 to become my fiscal peer. That money could provide the $3.13 for 17,252,332,268 children. Seventeen billion kids. And this is quite convenient as there are no more than two billion children in the world.

In fact that means the money saved on the fifteen billion non-existent kids she doesn’t need to pay for would leave her with $47,739,799,998 (47.7 billion dollars).

She can buy every kid in the world the vaccines she wants me to buy and still be so obscenely rich that she has more money than the annual gross domestic products of the following 113 countries.

1. Saint Lucia
2. Gambia
3. British Virgin Islands
4. Antigua and Barbuda
5. Gibraltar
6. Djibouti
7. Bhutan
8. Belize
9. Maldives
10. Burundi
11. San Marino
12. Cape Verde
13. Lesotho
14. Sierra Leone
15. Greenland
16. Central African Republic
17. Guyana
18. Cayman Islands
19. Eritrea
20. Aruba
21. Somalia
22. Faroe Islands
23. Isle of Man
24. Guernsey
25. Guam
26. Togo
27. Fiji
28. Swaziland
29. Kosovo
30. Suriname
31. New Caledonia
32. Mauritania
33. Montenegro
34. Barbados
35. Guinea
36. Kyrgyzstan
37. Malawi
38. Curacao
39. Liechtenstein
40. Jersey
41. Moldova
42. Zimbabwe
43. Tajikistan
44. Niger
45. Rwanda
46. Mongolia
47. French Polynesia
48. Laos
49. Nicaragua
50. Benin
51. Haiti
52. West Bank
53. Bahamas
54. Chad
55. Malta
56. Madagascar
57. Burkina Faso
58. Papua New Guinea
59. Armenia
60. Mali
61. Macedonia
62. Mauritius
63. Mozambique
64. Georgia
65. Cambodia
66. Namibia
67. Albania
68. Congo, Republic of the
69. Brunei
70. Botswana
71. Gabon
72. Congo, Democratic Republic of the
73. Senegal
74. Iceland
75. Jamaica
76. Equatorial Guinea
77. Nepal
78. Honduras
79. Zambia
80. Bosnia and Herzegovina
81. Afghanistan
82. Uganda
83. Paraguay
84. Ghana
85. Estonia
86. Bolivia
87. Trinidad and Tobago
88. Bahrain
89. El Salvador
90. Cameroon
91. Macau
92. Cote d’Ivoire
93. Tanzania
94. Cyprus
95. Latvia
96. Jordan
97. Panama
98. Turkmenistan
99. Korea, North
100. Yemen
101. Ethiopia
102. Kenya
103. Costa Rica
104. Burma
105. Lithuania
106. Uzbekistan
107. Serbia
108. Lebanon
109. Uruguay
110. Guatemala
111. Tunisia
112. Bulgaria
113. Slovenia

And not to belabor it but if we’re still judging by net worth, $3.13 of my money is equivalent to $845,100 of hers. I’d like to see her give up her coffee money.