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Understanding a billion is like trying to understand eternity, it’s beyond comprehension for most. To put a single billion in perspective, just one billion… that would mean a person could spend ~78k per day every day for 35 years. Roughly An American median hh annual income spent daily. This is ignoring any interest earned as well and again, just one single billion. $54/minute approx. 

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6 minutes ago, UpperWestside said:

Can we see the entire list of them posted here? I know I can google this, but a link or page listing them all might be helpful.

There’s over 800 of them in the US alone. 

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5 minutes ago, bluto said:

There’s over 800 of them in the US alone. 

Whole lotta folks there with more money than they could ever hope to spend. I did read the link above. Bezos and the child-tax credit is something that should upset American families that struggle just to make it on a daily basis.

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Musk and Bezos earn around 9 million per hour. The same as playing 100,000 people $90 per hour. $90 per hour = $180,000 a year. Replacing those 2 assholes with 200,000 people making 180k would sure help the economy…

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I had a 1x1 phone conversation with a billionaire a few years ago. I approached it super casual and non-chalant and spoke to him as a peer and equal-- even I was surprised by how cavalier I was. 

But it was important to me that I do so for some reason. Just because this guy had a billion dollars didn't mean I had to worship him or revere him. I felt there was a personal battle there I had to fight or something.

 

 

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15 hours ago, bluto said:

Understanding a billion is like trying to understand eternity, it’s beyond comprehension for most. To put a single billion in perspective, just one billion… that would mean a person could spend ~78k per day every day for 35 years. Roughly An American median hh annual income spent daily. This is ignoring any interest earned as well and again, just one single billion. $54/minute approx. 

What's crazier is how because the wealth is almost entirely on paper and anchored to some movable levers (stocks, equity, products, etc.) that one can be a billionaire because of an evaluation (e.g. Selena Gomez) and that one can lose billionaire status overnight (e.g. Kanye West). 

Dave Chappelle hilariously talked about Kanye losing $1.5 billion dollars overnight:

 

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41 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

as Bernie put it (paraphrasing): every billionaire is a policy failure. trickle down these nuts

Bernie is doing a Fight the Oligarchy tour with AoC and others, it sounds awesome and doing crazy numbers. Some excerpts:

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“Fighting Oligarchy” tour, a series of rallies organized by Senator Bernie Sanders which have, in recent weeks, garnered attention for attracting significant crowds: at a rally in Denver the day before, Sanders and the New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had reportedly drawn thirty-four thousand people. (By way of comparison, Vice-President Kamala Harris’s appearance in Houston, with Beyoncé, late in her campaign, had drawn some thirty thousand people; President Trump’s preëlection extravaganza at Madison Square Garden had had an audience of nearly twenty thousand.)

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“The truth is that right now in America, the people on top have never, ever in the history of our country, had it so good,” Sanders said. “These guys literally don’t know what to do with their money. They buy one mansion, two mansions, not enough. They’ve got five mansions. They want to get around? They own their own jet planes; they own their own helicopters. Send their kids to the best private schools, the best colleges. Go on vacation, they don’t go to Motel 6. They own their own islands, and just for kicks, the very rich decide to take a trip to outer space.”

His audience erupted into loud boos. But both Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez seemed to acknowledge that many Americans prefer to ally themselves with the richest person rather than the poorest, or have lost faith entirely in the idea of a functioning government. “What Republicans do is that they try to make working people like you and me feel like we’re just one step outside of that club, that if we just work a little bit harder, maybe we’ll be a billionaire too,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “Except those kinds of spoils aren’t earned, Tucson. They’re stolen.”

 

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/bernie-sanders-and-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-fight-the-oligarchy

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2 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

as Bernie put it (paraphrasing): every billionaire is a policy failure. trickle down these nuts

Pretty sure Bernie said “trickle down deez nuts.”

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5 hours ago, Vegas64 said:

I had a 1x1 phone conversation with a billionaire a few years ago. I approached it super casual and non-chalant and spoke to him as a peer and equal-- even I was surprised by how cavalier I was. 

But it was important to me that I do so for some reason. Just because this guy had a billion dollars didn't mean I had to worship him or revere him. I felt there was a personal battle there I had to fight or something.

 

 

Did everyone stand and applaud?

 

 

 

Is prospect.org like breitbart for the left?

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3 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Did everyone stand and applaud?

 

 

 

Is prospect.org like breitbart for the left?

It was a random sharing of emotional vulnerability implying that we shouldn't worship billionaires or anyone else with an important job title based on title alone. But let's stan for billionaires. Maybe they will see this and hire us to serve them. God willing.🤞

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5 hours ago, bolverk said:

Propaganda works.

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Here’s the problem with that graphic. If the hard hat wearing guy was enterprising and at the cutoff for the TOP TEN PERCENT net worth wise in the USA his one cookie would represent about 1.9M dollars. 
 

Just a run of the mill ONE billionaire would have 526 cookies.   Musk as of end of 2024 Forbes report would have 131,578 cookies. 
 

 

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1 hour ago, Anastasis said:

Did everyone stand and applaud?

 

 

 

Is prospect.org like breitbart for the left?

also are you a billionaire or a billionaire for the right?

Just now, Anastasis said:

Mod thread contributions always strong to quite strong. 

galaxy brain work here

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Posted
2 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Typically you just drop in and then drop out hayden. 

think this is a good look? 

It's unfortunate because I guess at one time I thought you were thoughtful.

i was so wrong.

stand up and applaud for yourself i guess. 

i dunno what you even stand for

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3 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Kinda the same man. 

yeah i am not sure you ever thought that. 

i went up to dallas with you and [redacted] and [redacted]. those folks can enter the conversation as they see fit.

i have positive thoughts of coors lights and Virginia slims in my mother's house. 

i remember talking about Obama care and my saying "it is at least a policy start" and I do remember you arguing so hard against me.  My whole point was that "fuck it's not perfect but it is a policy start. Congress can fight against health as a right but I think they will fail"

I remember disagreeing. Smokes. Meeting up with [redacted] and [redacted] the next morning. I remember my having 0 breakfast but [redacted]'s family hosting [redacted] and them talking about an embarrassment of breakfast. All I wanted was beer and corny dogs. We all went to the game together...

that was cool

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7 hours ago, Vegas64 said:

I had a 1x1 phone conversation with a billionaire a few years ago. I approached it super casual and non-chalant and spoke to him as a peer and equal-- even I was surprised by how cavalier I was. 

But it was important to me that I do so for some reason. Just because this guy had a billion dollars didn't mean I had to worship him or revere him. I felt there was a personal battle there I had to fight or something.

 

 

This is animal tobacco guy and it’s plainly obvious 

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1 hour ago, ABZ said:

It was a random sharing of emotional vulnerability implying that we shouldn't worship billionaires or anyone else with an important job title based on title alone. But let's stan for billionaires. Maybe they will see this and hire us to serve them. God willing.🤞

Maybe too random and stupid. My bad! I guess I deserve the flak. I jsut remember it that way. I think I was high too when I shared that.

4 minutes ago, Da Fino said:

This is animal tobacco guy and it’s plainly obvious 

Are you an idiot? Maye that's you, actually if "dafino' is your actual name troll.

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8 hours ago, Surly Bevo said:

Here’s the problem with that graphic. If the hard hat wearing guy was enterprising and at the cutoff for the TOP TEN PERCENT net worth wise in the USA his one cookie would represent about 1.9M dollars. 
 

Just a run of the mill ONE billionaire would have 526 cookies.   Musk as of end of 2024 Forbes report would have 131,578 cookies. 
 

 

This point about the scale of wealth inequality should be hammered constantly. If a million dollars is a mile, a billion is a 1000 miles, roughly Austin to Chicago. Even back in the Reagan "greed is good" 80s, we despised Randolph & Mortimer Duke and Gordon Gekko who were fictional, more likable, and broke ass motherfuckers compared to Elon and Zuckerberg. I never even hear our oligarchs referred to as greedy. Let no one escape knowing how the wealth of Bezos compares to an Amazon worker or Elon's compared to the park ranger or veteran at the VA whose jobs are being cut. Also, there's only 800 billionaires in the US and these assholes have this much influence? 

Saw this on Surly somewhere and it's one of the best demonstrations of wealth inequality I've seen. 

 

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16 hours ago, Vegas64 said:

I had a 1x1 phone conversation with a billionaire a few years ago. I approached it super casual and non-chalant and spoke to him as a peer and equal-- even I was surprised by how cavalier I was. 

But it was important to me that I do so for some reason. Just because this guy had a billion dollars didn't mean I had to worship him or revere him. I felt there was a personal battle there I had to fight or something.

 

 

I rode the elevator with Boone Pickens pretty regularly.  Drove himself to work in an older BMW wore khakis and ropers most of the time.

Superficially pretty nice, down-to-earth guy.

He never called me shitbird.

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18 hours ago, Vegas64 said:

I had a 1x1 phone conversation with a billionaire a few years ago. I approached it super casual and non-chalant and spoke to him as a peer and equal-- even I was surprised by how cavalier I was. 

But it was important to me that I do so for some reason. Just because this guy had a billion dollars didn't mean I had to worship him or revere him. I felt there was a personal battle there I had to fight or something.

 

 

there are cringey posts regularly made on this site daily but this one deserves some special recognition as one of the more texags-y posts not invoking fascist shit i have seen.

god damn dude.

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