• @[email protected]
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    414 days ago

    Nobody becomes a billionaire by being “a bit greedy”

    One billion dollars is an insane amount of money.

    • @[email protected]
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      124 days ago

      Reminder, 1 billion dollars is:

      • 1,000 millions
      • 1 million thousands
      • At the highest minimum wage in the world (Denmark @ USD$44,252/year), it would take just under 22,598 years to earn (11.2 Jesuses-ago)
      • If a Dane earning min wage were to work 24 hrs/day non-stop, it would take them just under 4,977 years to earn (2.46 Jesuses-ago).

      Billionaires have all that money even after their expenses. It’s their “savings account”, but their savings account makes much more interest than ours because they are actually invested in the market. If they need money beyond their regular pay, they use their investments as collateral for loans with interest rates lower than investment returns. They’re making money even if they are spending it.

    • sunzu2
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      -114 days ago

      They do in any advanced economy…

      But steam don’t tax plebs like housing, health, and education does

      • @OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe
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        194 days ago

        A billion dollars is never “a bit greedy”. It is always a failure of the system to regulated exorbitant wealth through effective taxation and fair market economic policy.