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[-] Fandangalo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Imagine life was a game. You lived for 2025 years. You worked 260 days / year. You made the median US salary.

You would need to relive that process 3,145 times to match an Oligarch.

That amount of wealth is unethical while humanity suffers. No one can really fathom “1b dollars.”

[-] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

For reference, Rockefeller was worth $1.4 billion in 1937 dollars on his death. That is the equivalent of $31.36 billion today. The richest person, Elon Musk, is currently worth $400 billion, or nearly 13 Rockefellers.

Nothing humanity has ever seen really compares, unless you're looking at literal kings literally enslaving and literally extracting all value from an entire population, and even then the scale will be far lower given population growth. We are in the oligarch golden age, and if we're lucky and we don't stay here, people will look back at this moment, and not the robber baron era, as the historical comparator for grotesque wealth accumulation.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago

It wouldn't be so bad if he actually threw some of that money at good causes. But he doesn't.

If I just multiplied my spending habits to his level I would have probably fully funded several charities. If I can give away money, while still paying off a mortgage and grocery, he definitely can. I have no problem with the ultra wealthy per se it's their selfishness that's the problem.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

WTF is a "Christtime" and why does that chart contradict itself multiple times?

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 weeks ago

The length of time between 1/1/1 and today.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world -2 points 2 weeks ago

How is that arbitrary date relevant? What about the contradictions?

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

How is that arbitrary date relevant?

I dunno, I just read the first line in the graphic.

What about the contradictions?

You didn't specify contradictions and this isn't my job.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world -2 points 2 weeks ago

If you're not going to respond to my comments, don't respond to my comments.

Read the lines with that "christ date" or whatever made up bullshit that is.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago

They're pointing out that if you live for 2,000 odd years you would still have to have several thousand lifespans at that extended life length in order to equal Jeff Bezos.

The reason I was able to work that out was because I read the first fucking sentence.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

My point is that 2,025 years is a very arbitrary length of time, "Christtime" isn't a word, and the chart contradicts itself. You could work that out by reading my comments, and beyond the first fucking sentence.

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago
[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's looking like a White Christmas!

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago

I still maintained that that was the creepiest black mirror episode of all of them including the new ones.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Shower thought: imagine that there's only one soul in the universe, and it's doomed to live the life of every living thing that has ever existed or will ever exist, one after the other. There would be a lot of good moments, but a lot of getting eaten and shit like that, too. Then imagine Jeff Bezos being that soul and what he has to look forward to.

[-] Gumus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

Isn't there a theory that there's only a single electron in the universe, that's travelling through time to manifest in multiple places at once? Can we call it Jeff?

I think that one electron deserves "Geoffrey", don't you?

[-] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago

Bonus: he needs to feed himself, pay rent and do taxes using the money he earns. If he dies, he’ll start all over again at $0.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

whoa whoa whoa, let's be realistic. he also needs to pay electricity, internet, phone, car + car insurance, and then he'll get sick/injured once a year and his shit HSA insurance doesn't cover anything until he hits 7000 dollars in medical expenses, so he'll have to pay for 3k of medical expenses out of pocket

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

And he gets to have the option of cheap public transit but it’s underfunded and badly managed on purpose so what should be a calm 30min bus ride is a an hour and half each way. Mock him for spending money on the car “when a bus pass is cheaper.”

When he complains about any of it tell he should just work harder and then raise prices a couple months later and give him a 1% while telling him he should be grateful.

[-] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

This is so poetic, I wanna start a thread about this to get more such examples of punishment

[-] normalexit@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

He doesn't even need to die first. He can start as soon as.. Well right now.

[-] sexy_peach@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Whatever hell doesn't exist though so I'd rather see him face consequences in real life

[-] buzz86us@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yes where he has to make all the clothes he ever sold

[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

Naahhh.. that would give him hope - He'd have infinite time for it, and eventually achieve that. The people he exploits now, don't have a light at the end of the tunel

[-] shneancy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

nono it's okay, we simulate the real world - every time he gets close to getting good savings and builds up hope, we crush it just like on Earth - his car breaks, he or a loved one has a medical emergancy, spice it up sometimes with natural disasters, random price spikes for necessities. he'll never be actually able to save up for a house, let alone the fortune he had when he was alive. he'd be one of the last to get out of hell

[-] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 weeks ago
[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 5 points 2 weeks ago

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