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I’ve been arguing for many years that being a billionaire is incompatible with being a decent human.
We live in an economy of finite means, and being willing to put an absolutely insane portion of that finite resource into a bank account is exactly tantamount to ensuring poverty exists elsewhere. Anyone willing to horde such an insane amount of money is simply evil.
I think part of why the public doesn’t get more upset about this though is that most people don’t understand how big a billion is. It is a number so large that our feeble little brains really struggle to grasp it, and we in common discourse talk about millionaires and billionaires like it’s just the next logical step.
The difference between a million and a billion is about a billion.
The problem is that 2/3 of Americans don't want to villainize them because they still hold on to some fantasy that they may become one soon. Somehow through bootstraps and luck they might just magically become a billionaire, because they're fucking stupid.
I'm just working minimum wage and praying inflation will get to the point where it carries me there. If it happened in Zimbabwe, it can happen here!
When the world sells off us treasury bonds and stops trading in the dollar that's highly likely. But it'll cost $500,000 for a loaf of bread and minimum wage will still be $7.25.