Re:Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama
by repsilat on Friday April 09, 2021 @02:20PM
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> could've given every person in the country a million dollars each
That'd be $329 trillion[1], which is on the order of 100x what we spent.
1: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%241+million%2Fperson+...
Re:Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama
by 6gvONxR4sf7o on Friday April 09, 2021 @02:49PM
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Can I ask where you heard that we could have given every person in the country a million each? I've seen that quoted all over the place, and can't figure out why, given that it's off by a factor of about a hundred.
Re:Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama
by geitir on Friday April 09, 2021 @02:37PM
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That's completely incorrect. If you take the us population over 18, that is 209 million. If we assumed 5% are wealthy, that's 198 million who would need to get 1 million dollars. If you multiply 1 million by 198 million, you 198 trillion dollars.
The utopia would be having low income housing running on solar with affordable EV's for people under a certain income level as well. Combined with a basic income, it would certainly make a huge decrease in poverty and allow these people to bootstrap themselves into the middle class.
EDIT: for poor math skills. lol