• Captain Aggravated
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    21 month 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
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      41 month ago

      That’s not correct.

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

        • Kairos
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          14 days ago

          I think 0 EDIT: I meant to say the total asset value.? I’m not sure. I think the number came from total wealth as an object, not total net worth.

        • Kairos
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          21 month ago

          No. No way. A million a person would mean $325 ish TRILLION for just the US. I think that’s around half the global wealth?

      • ObjectivityIncarnate
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        -11 month ago

        The average wealth could be $1,990,000 and they’d still be incorrect, lol (assuming the minimum value for “multimilion”, $2 million).

    • ObjectivityIncarnate
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      01 month 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.