• Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    16 days ago

    If we peel about 50 billionaires and their families we could make every single American a multi-millionaire. I bet it would put a dent in wage theft, too. Scare the piss out of middle managers so hard they prolapse their ureters.

    • Kairos@lemmy.today
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      16 days ago

      That’s not correct.

      The average wealth in this country is ~250k a person

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      16 days ago

      The 50 richest people in the US have a collective net worth of about $3 trillion. If you could wave a magic wand and turn that net worth (which is not an amount of cash money) directly into cash, something that obviously can’t actually be done, but I digress, and you distributed that $3 trillion evenly among the ~340 million people in the US, everyone would get about $8800, lmao. Not quite multimillionaire level.

      It amuses me how confidently people will state complete bullshit, even when it’s so easily debunked.