What would $139 billion look like to you or me? More than a lifetime, or a dozen. Surely such a person could liquidate at least *some* money to pay rent. I'm done cutting these fucks any slack. It feels like slack (not directed at you or your comment) to allow them to keep getting away with the lamest excuses ever. It has become obscene in relation to the common man.
I know money gets "funny" at that level. But if you work an average job making ok to decent money for your entire life, you might make, $2-3 million dollars total. I am basing this, more or less, on myself, I am a little over 40 now, and I have made "roughly" 1 million dollars total, since I started working at 16. The bulk of which was the last ten years at my current job. Now, you will have spent most if not all of it just, existing and living, paying bills, buying homes and cars, maybe raising kids. But that's a fairly generous, rough estimate (For the US I suppose).
$139 Billion, at the top end for a regular person, at $3 Million. Is the same as almost 50,000 lifetimes.
Billionaires should not exist.
Period.
Even 100 Millionaires, maybe even 10s of millionaires.
** Another "comparable" for a "regular person". Before he passed, my grandpa was always talking about his investments and finances, because he liked to show off how he had learned Excel a lot. When he and my grandma got married, in the 40s, he mentioned spending their last dollar on burgers afterwards. When he passed, with all of his investments and such, he was "worth" just a bit under 1 million dollars. A lifetime of effort and being pretty frugal.
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