Mathematically, I think it’s hard for people to truly understand the obscene wealth that some people have accumulated. 100 billion doesn’t sound that different than 100 million.
100 million is magnitudes closer to ZERO than it is to 100 billion.
The net worths are outdated but it’s still a shocking way to show how much billions are…
Wealth shown to scale
The difference between 1 million and 1 billion is roughly 1 billion.
No. It’s a thousand. Which is closer to zero than a billion.Edit: You’re talking absolute values so the difference is 999 million.
While I was talking ratios hence the ratio being 1:1000. My bad.
lol. I think your post shows just how hard it is to fathom a billion better than any numbers could.
Haha you forgot about the trillions of debt. Thank you for coming to my Tex talk.
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We don’t need to redistribute any wealth
I think part of the problem is that we confuse “wealth” as “money” and not “capital”.
We don’t need to raid a bunch of bank accounts and hand out big checks to everyone.
We do need to give workers equity in the companies where they work. We need to give them transparency with regard to how the businesses operate. And we need to give them lines of credit such that they can operate these businesses independently of the private banking sector.
That is the real wealth of the modern American economy. Not the Petrodollar.
You gotta grease the wheels. Americans are very self-centered, they won’t put in effort for somebody else’s profit (knowingly), but if they’re told they themselves can get almost $500k they’ll be more inclined to do it.
Wealth is not money.
Nor can you redistribute the combined assets of a population, but that would be deliberate obtuseness in translating the point of the message if you think that’s what it’s advocating for.
Seriously, if someone reads this and thinks “we should literally redistribute wealth so everyone has a half million bucks” you have the civic acuity of a mollusk.
This is a point about how wealth/assets/value-from-work is being horded by a select few. This line is to highlight that inequality is much worse than you think.
Pretty much most Lemmy users are mollusks who are either 15yo skipping school or 35yo living in mom’s basement.
No really, you’re right, the reason this is never going to be a rival to reddit because this site network doesn’t have the diversity sauce to actually bring in large scale users. Reddit didn’t explode until they made it feel unified and comfortable for women and older people to join the conversations. This site is like reddit was about 15 years ago, a deep basement of nerdy little boys sperging out about linux and underground memes, the only difference is some of the communities here have a much further left slant and reddit appealed to… absolute scum incels and illegal porn traders.
Man, we just can’t win. I’d love a site where they just check if you’re a reasonable, sane adult before you can get in. Like how Somethingawful had a $10 gate at the front which kept the bullshit down, and when someone did decide to burn their $10, it was a public spectacle and they were driven in shame… to form 4chan which is partially responsible for the destruction of democracy.
There were multiple attempts to gatekeep a nice community with a payment, but the majority of people today don’t want to pay for anything. The only huge exception is Suicide Girls.
And it’s the same everywhere! Lemmings like to talk about “enshitifications” and other bullshit, but the reality is that everyone is fine with slave labour and damage to the environment when jeans from Primark cost £15, but jeans from Hebtroco, made in the UK from UK garments and paying decent wages are £150+.
Cheap/free is the enemy of good.
