ABSTRACT
Our world is characterized above all else by an astounding income gap. The International Monetary Fund (2010) estimates that the citizens of Qatar hold the highest incomes in the world, earning an average of US$88,559 in 2010. At the bottom, citizens in the Democratic Republic of the Congo earned an average income of US$328 in 2010. The gap is remarkable. The typical Qatari garners 270 times the average income of a Congolese, earning in a little more than one day what an average Congolese will earn in the entire year. The gap is unprecedented. Never before have human beings lived in a context in which living standards are as unequal as they are today.
