return2ozma@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 23 hours agoTop 19 'Truly Superwealthy' US Families Grew $1 Trillion Richer Last Year: Analysiswww.commondreams.orgexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up1275arrow-down11
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minus-squareFandangalo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up31arrow-down1·20 hours ago Imagine life was a game. You lived for 2025 years. You worked 260 days / year. You made the median US salary. You would need to relive that process 3,145 times to match an Oligarch. That amount of wealth is unethical while humanity suffers. No one can really fathom “1b dollars.”
minus-squareHideakikarate@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up8·19 hours agoThat movie In Time really goes to show you how much the 1% has, and how little the 99% has. It’s even worse now.
Imagine life was a game. You lived for 2025 years. You worked 260 days / year. You made the median US salary.
You would need to relive that process 3,145 times to match an Oligarch.
That amount of wealth is unethical while humanity suffers. No one can really fathom “1b dollars.”
That movie In Time really goes to show you how much the 1% has, and how little the 99% has. It’s even worse now.