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In a lot of countries 10 000 dollars is the salary for about 5 000 days. Or in other words, far over 10 years. And you were talking about several tens of thousands, which means several decades of life when distributed among 300 million people, about a decade per person if distributed among a billion people.
Those numbers are for US billionaires divided by US population. If you were to try to divide global wealth from billionaires vs global population it likely wouldn't even be a thousand dollars.
Not everyone on this planet is poor. I don't need that money. But maybe roughly 2 billion people do. And "not even a thousand dollars" is two years' salary. In this case we're talking about a quarter of the world's population, so you "not even a thousand dollars" becomes "not even four thousand dollars".
And that means: "Not even the salary for 8 years. Possibly only 5 years!"
I mean, the money is enough to completely eradicate poverty from this planet. That's all that really matters.
It's not even close to enough to eradicate poverty from this planet. You vastly overestimate how much small amounts of money affect things. It may pull some of the ultra-poor out of poverty, but a single $2,000 payment wouldn't manage to get anyone in the first world out of poverty, and there are plenty of people living in the first world.
Cost of living varies by country, you're trying to suggest that redistribution would help people, and it would, but A) that's not how any sort of tax would be redistributed and B) the amount of money relative to each country isn't enough to solve any of the problems we're seeing.