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Where did they find $700b?
WHERE DID THEY FIND $700B?!?!
Hint: that averages out to almost $2000 per American.
I'm assuming they didn't. Their finances are probably based on stocks, which are the most bullshit thing ever. Trumpo does something stupid, stocks fall, and millios of dollars just 🌈disapear🌈. Just like that. Where did they go? Nowhere! Duh! But wait, when money magically shows up on a good day that stocks go up, doesn't that affect the economy lime printing more money? To be honest I do not know. But how dare you ask such things. Can't you see that the answer to that question would deeply affect billionaires and all of those people who have never worked a real job in their life and pretend that trading has value?
Guys that's only them getting $1.56 each
For every single second since the birth of Jesus Christ
Added to their individual wealths all worth about 100x that amount.
It's only $1.35M per day over 2025 years.
It's no big deal.
hang them, each, by ropes made of money
and the dude pulling 50k as a supervisor at wendy’s is like “fuck yeah, suck it libs”
I bet most americans are super proud to host these parasites.
Hey US’ians. You’re collectively being taken to the cleaners, and you’re cheering the culprits. End this before the oligarchy has taken everything you hold dear
Sure, buddy. The people cheering for this are on Lemmy. You mean Dear Leader Trump might be lying to me? I'm absolutely shocked! Thanks so much for imparting this vital information.
But billionaires are like celebrities. You need to cheer for them and buy them stuff.
Does this de-value money? When this much is in such a small amount of hands, what good is it even doing?
Yes. It does. You can see it in the increasing inflation rate. Their fake dollars impact our real ones. As they hoard more wealth, cumulative wealth becomes more worthless.
It does literally no good as they just stuff what they can offshore to avoid any taxes. They do nothing for the economy other than to drain resources.
Which is literally what they're doing with AI. Massive water consumption, not to mention the massive amounts of power and silicon/tech involved. If one wanted to burn through our resources at record speed for no reason other than burning through our resources at record speed, it would seem as though they discovered a pretty efficient contender with AI.
My ex tried to argue with me that her grandfather buying another 8 figure yacht created jobs for the yacht builders, so see, trickle-down works.
Hopefully several of them will die of natural causes so we can at least obtain those inheritance taxes from those greedy non-societal motherfuckers.
You're joking, right? Between beg-borrow-die and forever trusts, they use their deaths to take their debts with them while their dragon horde stays untouched