• Mist101@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Yes. Your math is correct. My point was never “billionaires good”, but rather the meme is disingenuous. But I guess any time anyone says anything other than “billionaires bad” they get downvoted.

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      1 day ago

      I’m not really sure why you’re being downvoted. I up voted you.

      I didn’t actually mean to imply that I disagreed with you. I was just giving some alternative numbers to demonstrate the issue in a more realistic way. I also didn’t think you were implying that billionaires are good just because the example in this post isn’t the best one.

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      Your point is still not clear to me. It could be interpreted as $5,000 in today’s money every day since long ago. It still is a lot of money per day, even in the equivalent money back then. 5 cents then (or whatever) is what $5,000 feels like today. So what’s your point?

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        If you are still asking what my point is after my two comments, I think we’re done here.