Wealth Shown to a Pixel Scale

Re:Wealth Shown to a Pixel Scale by Kapura on Friday October 20, 2023 @10:34AM (#37956660)

[citation needed]

i don't have any fucking money, i can't invest in shit. That's the big difference between Jeff Bezos and Me.

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Re:Wealth Shown to a Pixel Scale by monero-xmr on Friday October 20, 2023 @10:39AM (#37956752)

Bezos net worth = 152 billion https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/jeffrey-p-be...

US population = 332 million

152 billion / 332 million = $457 per person (I was over estimating!)

US debt = 33.6 trillion https://www.pgpf.org/national-debt-clock#:~:text=The%20%2433....

152 billion / 33.6 trillion = 0.45%

Wow, I underestimated what Bezos' wealth could pay off in our national debt by an order of magnitude! It could only pay 1/10 of what I thought - only 0.45%! Incredible how much debt the US government has.

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Re:Wealth Shown to a Pixel Scale by medvezhenok on Friday October 20, 2023 @10:58AM (#37957011)

You used deficit the first time, debt the second.

The deficit is currently around 2 trillion dollars, so Bezos' wealth is around 7.5% of the deficit (if it were fully liquid, which it's not).

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Re:Wealth Shown to a Pixel Scale by monero-xmr on Friday October 20, 2023 @01:40PM (#37959153)

Regardless, stealing all of Bezos' money to "help society" would accomplish very little.

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Re:Wealth Shown to a Pixel Scale by gpxyz on Friday October 20, 2023 @02:07PM (#37959495)

And letting Bezos continue stealing money from his employees is more beneficial to society?

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Re:Wealth Shown to a Pixel Scale by buzzert on Friday October 20, 2023 @04:40PM (#37961242)

He’s both stealing from his employees and paying them at the exact same time?

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