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[-] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 10 points 15 hours ago

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.

[-] Capt_Trav@reddthat.com 3 points 12 hours ago

Can someone do the math for me... If theoretically that was all liquid and those 3 got Thanos snapped with the money redistributed, how much would each American get?

[-] AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

About $2500 per person

As in 1 trillion / 390 million population

[-] huppakee@piefed.social 16 points 18 hours ago

Damn, when I read this statistic the other day I took it as 'the bottom half has less then the 3 richest persons', but in fact, it is 'three people each have more than the bottom half' holy shit.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

The only way it trickles down is the way Charlie Kirk showed us

[-] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 9 points 18 hours ago

there are way more of us than there are of them.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

Yeah, but to them it's super cheap to buy and arm enough of us for their protection.

[-] Overconfidentiality 6 points 17 hours ago

I read a thing earlier where Musk was complaining about not feeling safe to go out in public since Kirk was shot. So there's that.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

He also has a financial interest in other rich assholes being afraid.

He started a high-dollar personal security company for right-wing billionaires called Foundation Security.

[-] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

Love that for him. I hope he never feels safe.

[-] BeardededSquidward 1 points 14 hours ago

Why just leave it a fear?

[-] ComradeRachel 30 points 22 hours ago
[-] yggstyle@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

The french really did have a solid way of reminding the upper crust that they were vastly outnumbered by the people they were standing upon...

Remind me. Why are the worlds billionaires all building bunkers? A true mystery.

[-] morphballganon@mtgzone.com 6 points 17 hours ago

What people often forget about trickle-down economics is that wealth only trickles down to named beneficiaries

[-] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 17 points 21 hours ago

As per, the only thing that trickles down is shit, vomit and piss.

[-] foggianism@lemmy.world 14 points 21 hours ago

"own more" is putting it lightly, they literally own 10 times more than bottom 170 mil people combined

[-] NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago

What’s about the other twelve multi-billionaires that are worth more than $85B? Why were they left out?

[-] EightLeggedFreak@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

It's the "that guy wants your cookie" meme, but billionaires ranked 4th and lower are pointing at these 3.

[-] CtrlAltDefeat@lemmy.zip 15 points 21 hours ago

Now, I might be misreading this data, but from what it looks like either one of these billionaires by themselves have more wealth than the bottom 50% of Americans, right?

[-] SomeRandomNoob@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 21 hours ago

More like one Billionaire own 5.6 times the wealth of the bottom 50%

[-] potatoguy@lemmy.eco.br 88 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

On Elon Musk, it's funny because he never put a profit, like tesla isn't the biggest, X is draining money, his robotics shits are just that: shit, only spacex is relatively successfull, but it's not on the same level of half trillion dollars.

There isn't much that he's done, all of his companies are making less profits (or losing more money if i'm being correct), he is just a jake paul that fakes being a fake intelligent person.

Edit: Deleted my edit, i'm drunk

[-] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 28 points 1 day ago

Yeah, its ironic. The richest man in the world doesn't have a single truly profit-making venture under him.

How the bubble around him hasn't burst yet I don't know, but it would certainly be a feast for sore eyes.

[-] Yondoza@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago

SpaceX has been phenomenally successful. I don't think he can be attributed to much of that success. The Falcon 9 handled 95% of launches in 2024. SpaceX has went from non existant to a near monopoly in 23 years while competing against some of the most powerfully connected companies in the world.

I'm not a SpaceX fanboy (I'm a space fanboy). They have done a lot of good for the space industry, while also causing a lot of harm to the scientific space community (earth based observations). I just don't think you can make an argument that SpaceX is not a successful company.

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[-] davidagain@lemmy.world 64 points 1 day ago

The weird thing is that these people don't think they're rich enough and want to extract more money from government and the people, and they simultaneously think that the government gives too much money to poor people.

[-] DirtPuddleMisfortune@feddit.org 22 points 1 day ago

They race to who will be the first trillionaire. It's disgusting. Meanwhile children are starving.

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[-] FateOfTheCrow 12 points 1 day ago

To these people, there's no such thing as "enough". Contentment is not a concept that exists within their minds, only a sociopathic urge to acquire more.

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[-] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 71 points 1 day ago

Three bullets could do so much for this country

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

not really, not by themselves. the billionaires would just be replaced.

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 12 hours ago

We gotta start somewhere

[-] bonsai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 day ago

Let's keep 'replacing' them until the replacements end

[-] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago

But that would require more than 3 bullets

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 14 points 21 hours ago

All I'm hearing is how great this would be for the bullet industry.

[-] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 19 hours ago

Could you imagine how many jobs it would create

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[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We already have Musk acting like his own personal country, making personal deals with world leaders that benefit only himself over other nations. Others are probably doing it, too, but we haven't heard about it.

Now these Sociopathic Oligarchs are heading to trillionaire status, and they WILL be founding their own Corporo-Nations, which will require private armies for security. Eventually, these Corporo-Nations will combine to form their own alliance, combine their armies, and start throwing their weight around militarily, as well as economically.

This is all just a matter of time, and then we're going to wonder as a planet, Why we didn't stop those guys back when we had a chance?

I have no doubt at all that ALL of them have violated many laws, in many sectors, to get as rich as they are. Investigate them deeply, prosecute them for their crimes, and confiscate their entire fortunes. If we don't do that, it is absolutely certain that we will come to regret it.

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[-] Digit@lemmy.wtf 14 points 23 hours ago

It will trickle down any second now

No, no. A little while yet.

They've got to get enough to cover

https://www.usdebtclock.org/

first. THEN it'll trickle down. For super super sure.

Trust them. Maybe they care.

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[-] _Nico198X_@europe.pub 9 points 22 hours ago

Dragonslayer is an occupation that needs a comeback

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[-] barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

Don't forget that shithead larry Ellison. He's worth 200b right now.

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[-] victorz@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago

Not to mention that the top owner owns more than the second and third combined...

[-] RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 29 points 1 day ago

Any place that allows this to happen is a bad place.

[-] leavemealone@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Honestly stop being poor dudes, just ask your father for some millions to get started and start exploiting people, easy

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[-] Aetherion@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago

This is so disgusting.

[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

It works like a piñata - if we beat it open with a club, only then will its contents trickle down.

[-] erusuoyera@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago

People really should pay their bottoms more.

(sorry)

[-] roserose56@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago

USA at again, isn't it? The country with trillion debt, that's about to blow.

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[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 15 hours ago

Turns out that the golden stuff streaming down ain't Gold ...

[-] Oisteink@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Top two are richer than the 3rd + the 50%

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[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

And this graph is old, isn’t it? Their wealth is snowballing rapidly, hence Larry Ellison is at $250B now.

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