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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."

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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.

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