So you're saying if we kill the 8, we can double the wealth of almost half of the population of the world?
Yeah but think of the impact on society, any of us could be those top 8 if we just worked hard enough!
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You know what? If that happens to be me just do it.
It won't. The kind of people who would offer themselves up to be killed for the good of humanity aren't the kind of people who make a billion dollars unless they hit the lottery a few times in a row.
I mean, they could just give away 90% of a billion dollars, leaving them with a pathetic 100 million dollars.
That's what gets me when people defend billionaires. You could take 99 percent of that and they'd still have 10 million dollars which is still multiples of what the average worker makes in a lifetime. They could still live without a worry in the world.
You'll never get a billion of you care enough to help anyone with your wealth
Shit if I ever end up in the top million let me know so I can solve that via charity and pro worker lobbying right quick.
I’ll sign this pact too.
Once I’m into the top 1000 net worths on earth (practically a given to happen), I’ll just retire.
If my valuable assets force me into the top 100 (more likely than not), I’ll hire somebody to find good charities to prop up.
If I stumble into the top 10 billion/trillion-aires, go ahead and do what you gotta do and remind my widow to do nice things with the estate.
Yes then with their superior work ethic and bootstraps they could earn it back again. It’s like an infinite money glitch for humanity.
Nah, let's just eat them instead. Isn't that how Jesus fed 5,000?
Since when does wealth be shared when someone dies ?
No, the money will go to their descendants who will try to get even richer than their parents. A large part of that money will also be taken by the state because ?? and ??.
Nothing would change.
A large part of that money will also be taken by the state because ?? and ??.
to make society work, and IDK, give food stamps to the single mother? it's literally the theme of the post.
You're just not killing enough people. At some point the heirs decide to give it all away.
This has historical precedence. Many times over. Collective action works.
We do not encourage violence, but yes
Maybe you don't....
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I don't agree with your math but I love your enthusiasm for murder.
math checks out tho?
more like based methodist church
If only. I went to one of their bishop factories as yooth, the people that matter to the organization don't share these principles.
Your experience is certainly valid but for those interested there are at least 13 Methodist denominations in the North America alone, several of which exist because they participate in more progressive leadership :)
This is my favorite visualization of how obscenely wealthy the mega rich are.
And it's gotten much worse since then. The $185 billion number listed as the highest wealth would be around number 5 now, with Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Arnault all having more than that now I think.
My favorite statistic household net worth (includes cars, houses, retirement, everything).
Median from 2022 was 192,000 Mean from 2022 was 1,063,000
The ultra-rich are such incredible outliers that the mean is more than 5x the median.
The 10 wealthiest people in 2024 control almost 1.7 trillion dollars. That's more than the GDP of the pooreat 100 countries combined.
And that is almost a decade out of date.
Interesting fact if you make $100000 a year and not counting any taxes or inflation or spending it would take you 10000 years to become a billionaire
So you're saying I can get there....
Absolutely! You just have to ditch those silly luxuries like food and shelter. You could even start working 80 hour weeks in hopes of getting passed over for that promotion again. Until then, you can just dream about how that extra $100 a month could possibly bring the total time down to 9,989 years.
One million seconds is 11.6 days
One billion seconds is 31.7 years
And a trillion seconds is 31,688 years
I'd like to see a loaves and fishes kinda miracle performed with the bodies of these 8 men.
I hate agreeing with a church on anything, but when you're right you're right.
But those 8 men deserve it! /s
I'm thinking of starting a crowdfunder to become the first billionaire in history to give all of their money away to people who are hungry.
That's just a charity...
Yeah in a way. But also a charity is not a billionaire.
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