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Re:Asia-Pacific is home to a rise in new self-made billionaires by threatofrain on Friday February 08, 2019 @09:46PM (#19120365)
I think it's not good to frame wealth creation in terms of billionaires.
Re:Asia-Pacific is home to a rise in new self-made billionaires by rdiddly on Friday February 08, 2019 @10:17PM (#19120471)
Came here to say that. Compared to making everybody richer, making one guy a billionaire is easy. It costs $1 billion. Even giving each Chinese person $1 would cost more than that.

Edit: Which is not to be all "America Yay!" and "China Boo!" like some high school rivalry. America's legendary wealth inequality objectively demonstrates that it, too, leans closer to "making one guy a billionaire" than it does to "giving everybody a dollar."

Re:Asia-Pacific is home to a rise in new self-made billionaires by samatman on Saturday February 09, 2019 @01:09AM (#19121050)
The median personal income in the United States is roughly 31,000 dollars.

So more like giving everyone 85 dollars a day, than one.

Re:Asia-Pacific is home to a rise in new self-made billionaires by rayvy on Saturday February 09, 2019 @01:55AM (#19121140)
Agreed. If you're a regular reader of Bloomberg (I am myself), then you see that they almost fetishize abnormal wealth - constantly writing articles in regards to what the "elite", the "1%", the "ultra-wealthy" think/do. As someone who previously liked Bloomberg (about as much as someone can like that type of thing), the constant obsession with wealth is definitely a turn off.
Re:Asia-Pacific is home to a rise in new self-made billionaires by JDiculous on Saturday February 09, 2019 @04:04PM (#19124622)
Bloomberg used to be my go-to news source, but I stopped checking it after they shifted to clickbait spam articles devoid of substance and I realized my time was being wasted.