Picture this: $6.5 trillion appears overnight, not in the digital halls of billionaire bank accounts, but dropped like fairy dust into your city, your community—or even your own hands. How does it change everything?

Let’s play a game of imagination. For perspective, $6.5 trillion is more than the entire GDP of Japan, the third-largest economy in the world. It’s enough to fund universal basic income for every adult in several countries, pay off all US federal student loan debt almost ten times over, or grant every person on Earth an unexpected windfall of nearly $800.

What else? The world’s most ambitious projects—ending global hunger, eradicating polio, providing clean drinking water everywhere—have been calculated to cost a mere sliver of that total. And yet, so much of this wealth remains concentrated, invisible, silently compounding in assets untouched by the everyday dreams of most humans.

So here’s the real question: If you woke up tomorrow with your share, what would you create, cure, or change? And who—or what—determines whose pockets get filled with fairy dust in the first place?

This article was inspired by the headline: 'Billionaires’ wealth surged $6.5tn over past decade, Oxfam reports'.