• @[email protected]
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    83 days ago

    Ok… if i give up my phone, i feed a family for a week. If bezo gives up a yacht, he feeds 1,000 familes for life. See the problem here?

    • @Lauchs
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      -33 days ago

      Except there are many more non billionaires than billionaires. There are some 750ish billionaires in the US.

      Median American has a net worth of about 200k. So, 5,000 median Americans gets you about a billion.

      Divide the American population (~333 million) and lo and behold, worth about 66,666 billionaires.

      So, in other words, blaming billionaires is easy but really…

      • @[email protected]
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        43 days ago

        Yes, which is why step taxation was implemented… the richer you are the more you’re expected to return back to society.

        • @Lauchs
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          -43 days ago

          Yes and the billionaires, while still having loopholes, still give back way more to society than we do.

          Unsure what point you’re trying to make.

          • @[email protected]
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            33 days ago

            What they give back is miniscule in what they take.

            What is the point you’re trying to make?

            • @Lauchs
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              03 days ago

              There are many more non billionaires than billionaires. There are some 750ish billionaires in the US.

              Median American has a net worth of about 200k. So, 5,000 median Americans gets you about a billion.

              Divide the American population (~333 million) and lo and behold, worth about 66,666 billionaires.

              So, in other words, blaming billionaires is easy but really…

              • @[email protected]
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                13 days ago

                Did you just repeat your comment? Maybe you should get your handler to spend more money on your LLM model.

                • @Lauchs
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                  13 days ago

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