• Lauchs@lemmy.world
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    3 months 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.

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        3 months 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…