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[โ€“] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

A bank account with one million dollars can be completely wiped at any time. This could happen by American healthcare cost due to illness or an accident, or a lawsuit from something like a handyman slipping on your property. A billion dollars wouldn't even feel it.

[โ€“] unfreeradical@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

By some measures, Musk's decisions managing Twitter/X should earn him one million lifetimes of homelessness.

I know no one personally who would remain secure after losing billions of dollars, yet I keep hearing that owners take all the risks and workers are always protected from hardship.