US Politics on Sidechat | I don’t think people understand the difference between 1million and 1billion, so of course they don’t understand how crazy 100billion is. Now the combined wealth of all billionaires worldwide is $20 trillion. Now how many millions make 20 trillions?

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US Politics 21h

I don’t think people understand the difference between 1million and 1billion, so of course they don’t understand how crazy 100billion is. Now the combined wealth of all billionaires worldwide is $20 trillion. Now how many millions make 20 trillions?

Anonymous 21h

And most of them are pedos, so yeah, the world is fucked

Anonymous 19h

For perspective, 2 facts: 1. When the first Forbes list was released in 1982, the richest human alive had just 2 billion dollars (AKA 6.4 billion in 2026 $) 2. If you’d earned $5,000 AN HOUR and had been working full-time since the day Jesus was born, $200,000/wk x 105,800 wks, you’d have “only” 21.1 billion, placing you at the “modest” position of 121 on the current Forbes list. Nobody becomes a billionaire through hard work & fair business practices.

Anonymous 21h

Most of their “wealth” exists in the form of unrealized capital gains… capital gains from shares they own… in the companies they founded… with their money. Seems perfectly fair to me. What is it? 90%+ of companies fail? God forbid somebody risks everything have succeeds and Leftists want to punish them. It’s nothing but jealousy and “tall poppy syndrome”

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Anonymous

#1 21h

Mind you, all of those people were able to start only because their families were rich. NONE of them started with their own money lol. It’s only the rich getting richer, while there are people barely surviving no matter how much they work.

Anonymous

#1 21h

They didn’t risk shit, and even if they did, it doesn’t mean they should be making 100billions of dollars while we still have world hunger, drinking water shortages, and homeless people

Anonymous

OP 21h

Very dishonest. Plenty were born dirt poor. And I mean DIRT POOR. Zhou Qunfei, Li Kashing, Oprah Winfrey, Howard Schultz, Larry Ellison, Ralph Lauren

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Anonymous

OP 21h

They don’t “make that much.” Most of it sits in the form of unrealized capital gains

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Anonymous

#1 20h

You’re forgetting that stock buybacks are on par with market manipulation and they artificially inflate the value of a company (and in turn CEO net worths) by arbitrarily purchasing stocks above their par value, also inflating the demand for a stock by both investors in the short-run and the company itself

Anonymous

#1 20h

They do make that much lol. It doesn’t matter if it’s unrealized capital gains or not, that is still the money they make. And just because a few people managed to reach that point from being poor doesn’t mean that they are any good or that billionaires should exist. Because the majority of the world is still broke.