Re:Wealth Shown to a Pixel Scale
by medvezhenok on Friday October 20, 2023 @10:58AM
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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).
Re:Wealth Shown to a Pixel Scale
by monero-xmr on Friday October 20, 2023 @01:40PM
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Regardless, stealing all of Bezos' money to "help society" would accomplish very little.
And letting Bezos continue stealing money from his employees is more beneficial to society?
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.