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Domino@quokk.au to World News@quokk.auEnglish · 2 months ago

World on Track to Have Almost 4,000 Billionaires Within Next Five Years

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World on Track to Have Almost 4,000 Billionaires Within Next Five Years

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Domino@quokk.au to World News@quokk.auEnglish · 2 months ago
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The super-rich are hoarding wealth at such a rapid pace that hundreds more billionaires will be created in the coming years, bringing the total to almost 4,000 as ordinary people face the erosion of public services, and food and fuel inflation.
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  • CobraCommander@quokk.au
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    Billions are going to die because of only 4,000 people with names and addresses.

    We need more Luigi’s.

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  • MrSelfDestruct@piefed.social
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    Better start subtracting before they multiply.

    • fulcrummed@lemmy.world
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      I have only these to offer. ()

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    Since we aren’t just printing enough extra money to cover this, guess where it’s coming from.

    • 0ndead@infosec.pub
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      The kind of money that makes people billionaires doesn’t actually exist. It’s just a collection of “numba go up” scams.

    • lumpyluggage@lemmy.world
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      Education, social services, healthcare aaaand you

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    If these people are so amazing to earn that much money, we should ship them all to mars and we’d have a thriving colony in a few years.

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    • Aneb@lemmy.world
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      And in 1987 there should have been 0 billionaires, and in 2026 we don’t need billionaires

    • CPMSP@midwest.social
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      And at that point, it was 140 too many.

    • frongt@lemmy.zip
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      Is that accounting for inflation? Because in 1987 you only (“only”) needed about $340m to be a billionaire in today’s dollars.

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    We gotta get those numbers down

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    Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

    Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

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    Well, there was a time in history when nearly everyone in Zimbabwe were billionaires… in Zimbabwe dollars… which apocalyptically inflated in value…

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    funny how when you put the number of billionaires next to the number of people killed by billionaires you suddenly have a luigi hat on

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    We need to at the very least thin the herd drastically.

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    That’s a lot of people we have to eat!!!

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    That reminds me to buy more ammo

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    Wait, does this mean we’ll eventually all be billionaires? Is my math right on this one?

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      Yes if the system stays the same then eventually, after enough inflation, we would all be billionaires (well, our descendants). In the same way everyone in Zimbabwe was a billionaire.

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    A lot of people want to ger rid of billionaires, but very few people actually want to get rid of the system that creates billionaires

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      because they dont want admit they also benefit from cheap labor from others.

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