It's a great start. Though the truly wealthiest people on that list are mostly just the ones that are able to inflate their net worths with stocks. The wealthiest people in the world make sure much of their finances aren't public
I have predicted through my life that one day I would be a millionaire but it would suck. So far it has not happened and now I think I won't be a millionaire but being one will still suck its just being a thousandaire will suck more.
Well, there was a time in history when nearly everyone in Zimbabwe were billionaires.... in Zimbabwe dollars... which apocalyptically inflated in value...
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.
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.
So much wealth stored in so few people. Imagine how much money will be unlocked from each billionaire eaten. It will pay for healthcare, childcare, housing, education, and nice towns to enjoy it all in.
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CobraCommander@quokk.au · 60 pts · 126d
Billions are going to die because of only 4,000 people with names and addresses.
We need more Luigi’s.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 35 pts · 126d
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 126d
the fact that we know there will be 4000 of them implies there is a list of them somewhere.
where is the list?
mushroommunk@lemmy.today · 16 pts · 126d
Forbes publishes a lost of the wealthiest 400 every year, can start there
EditsHisComments@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 126d
It's a great start. Though the truly wealthiest people on that list are mostly just the ones that are able to inflate their net worths with stocks. The wealthiest people in the world make sure much of their finances aren't public
RaoulDuke85@piefed.social · 16 pts · 126d
Better start subtracting before they multiply.
fulcrummed@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 126d
I have only these to offer. ()
danc4498@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 126d
Trillionaire will be the new billionaire. Broke is still broke.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 3 pts · 126d
I have predicted through my life that one day I would be a millionaire but it would suck. So far it has not happened and now I think I won't be a millionaire but being one will still suck its just being a thousandaire will suck more.
_chris@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 126d
Since we aren’t just printing enough extra money to cover this, guess where it’s coming from.
0ndead@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 126d
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 · 3 pts · 126d
Education, social services, healthcare aaaand you
radiofreebc@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 126d
Aneb@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 126d
And in 1987 there should have been 0 billionaires, and in 2026 we don't need billionaires
CPMSP@midwest.social · 3 pts · 126d
And at that point, it was 140 too many.
frongt@lemmy.zip · -1 pts · 126d
Is that accounting for inflation? Because in 1987 you only ("only") needed about $340m to be a billionaire in today's dollars.
shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 126d
We gotta get those numbers down
Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 126d
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.
Blaster_M@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 126d
Well, there was a time in history when nearly everyone in Zimbabwe were billionaires.... in Zimbabwe dollars... which apocalyptically inflated in value...
nonentity@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 125d
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.
Grass@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 126d
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
podian@piefed.social · 4 pts · 126d
That's a lot of people we have to eat!!!
boaratio@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 126d
Wait, does this mean we'll eventually all be billionaires? Is my math right on this one?
Obi@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 126d
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.
morto@piefed.social · 3 pts · 126d
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
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 125d
because they dont want admit they also benefit from cheap labor from others.
MolochHorridus@piefed.social · 3 pts · 126d
We need to at the very least thin the herd drastically.
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 125d
That reminds me to buy more ammo
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 125d
You can just look up where a lot of these guys live, fyi.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 pts · 126d
and how many thousandaires?
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 126d
No. No, I'm sorry, but this will not do. The hoarding of that much money is unacceptable. Eatings must be made.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 126d
So much wealth stored in so few people. Imagine how much money will be unlocked from each billionaire eaten. It will pay for healthcare, childcare, housing, education, and nice towns to enjoy it all in.
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 126d
0ndead@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 126d
Yeah, but how many will still have heads?
rogsson@piefed.social · 1 pts · 126d
We need a clone army of Luigi’s. Let the clone wars begin.
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 126d
At least there's some sustenance security