And the image/chat was stolen from tumblr, I think?
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Sometimes I think it’d be funny if there were a single billionaire on Lemmy watching us make fun of them. Google says there are like 2600 billionaires in the world. I imagine that’s pretty unlikely, tho.
But hey - if there are zero billionaires on lemmy, that means we have ourselves a billionaire-free zone!
I wonder how much actual cash those billionaires have. Probably not that much more than millionaires (like one order of magnitude more, not three-four). All those billions are actually assets they own, not money.
You know, it’s kind of like this with land. Laws around Adverse Possession (Squatter’s Rights) are basically the legal framework for taking possession of land when someone has so much land or are so absentee that you can use it without them noticing. Generally, if you you can use their land openly and they don’t challenge you, after a set period it’s yours.
Don’t know how this would work with money, but it’s interesting that you can legally take someone’s property if they have too much to manage it properly and you need it.
The police are thier private security force…
Where’s the button I can press to project this comment onto the moon
What can you realistically steal that isn’t worth peanuts to them? You could take a car or some jewelry or maybe destroy a building, but their massive hoards are mostly in these intangible things called shares. It only exists on record and it only has value to those who are similarly greedy.
Their life, on the other hand… 🤔
How about instead of anarchist cosplay where we all pretend that we’re going to petrol bomb billionaire estates, we push for people with excessive incomes to be taxed at a much higher threshold?
The fact that there are billionaires just shows that the system is hilariously flawed. Billionaires would rather you sit around and make memes about them than actually push for some fucking change…
I’m sorry but this is bullshit.
So a person who has 200 million to their name is not worth “stealing” from? Billionaires? Just billionaires?
Sorry but anyone who has more than about 10 times the median income has already passed a point at which I can buy that their life’s work was so hard that their wealth is justified. (Personally I would set this factor even lower).
I mean, I haven’t looked at all the data and whatnot but I imagine there are people who have millions of dollars that earned it honestly, 200 million is a lot but again I bet there are non horrible people that have that much
The reason people use 1 billion as an example is there is no good way to earn that much money, no one has ethically earned 1 billion dollars in any example I’ve ever seen at least, so it’s a good baseline
