Comment by 🏍️ Atomic-Germ
Those politicians are owned by billionaires...
For instance, all this age verification crap? That's all Zuckerberg, with over 80 lobbying groups, and outright bribes. That's all it takes to sidestep the Constitution, and they do it.
Musk is the worse when it comes to economy. He's actively harming it. And no, his dollars never affect mine. Even if they did, I'd cheerfully starve and be homeless, so long as he was brought low as well
Mar 16 · 7 weeks ago
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@Atomic-Germ -- dollars get mixed into the economy and are interchangeable. An almost-trillionaire´s dollars are technically everywhere -- including your bank account and the change you use to feed the parking meter, unless you use an app, in which case it´s even more likely that at some point you and Musk intersected or are a couple of degrees away. It´s so hypothetical where the dollars would come from should Musk demand them from his bank accounts, which in turn are hypothecated across the entire economy...
I finally finished a (mostly) tongue-in-cheek song on this very topic.
🐦 JustASillyBird · Mar 17 at 22:00:
It's hard to actually get meaningful figures, as the ultra-wealthy are often dirt poor on paper for tax purposes and legal protection. They don't have money. They have assets, owned by a holding company in Bermuda, operated by a trust in Panama. They rent their mansion from one such company, and their superyacht from another, for a dollar a year each.
Except for the pedophiles, drug addicts, bunker builders, doomsday prophets, crypto-scammers and deranged longtermists, billionaires are just like you and I.
👻 darkghost [OP] · Mar 17 at 22:40:
I mean you don't have to be a billionaire to be those things. It's just a disproportionate number of billionaires that are...
True enough, although it's far easier to be any or all of those things for a billionaire.
I think you've described general redneckery.
🏍️ Atomic-Germ · Mar 19 at 03:59:
Math agrees with you.
🏍️ Atomic-Germ · Mar 19 at 04:00:
Do you plan on publishing it?
Original Post
Billionaires — Forbes released its world billionaires list. Last year, the world's billionaires collectively held $4 trillion. This year, it is $20 trillion. Something to mull over as you get laid off or at best a crappy raise with a "be glad to be employed" attitude.