• lennybird@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    I’m honestly fine with millionaires, especially those who actually produce something of value to society— and within the purview of a truly progressive tax system.

    Millionaires != Billionaires. That is, there are three orders of magnitude difference between a million and a billion.

    • 1 Million seconds is 11 days.
    • 1 Billion seconds is nearly 32 years.

    Finally, I’ll take someone speaking the truth from their position of power than spreading lies and hate.

    Edit:

    As a bonus to drive the point home: compare when you double each of those values: 22 days vs. 64 years, and so on…

    Moreover:

    • 1 Trillion seconds is 31,709 YEARS.
    • The known wealth of the 750ish billionaires in America (not counting corporate coffers and near-billionaires) is around 7 Trillion dollars.

    Imagine what we could do as a nation with that sort of money just sitting at the top, going either unspent or toward wasteful garbage or political bribery.