Comment by 🐦 JustASillyBird
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.
Mar 17 · 7 weeks ago
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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.