Combined assets of $14.2tn are more than the GDP of every country except China and the US

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  • Kalkaline @leminal.space
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    8 months ago

    How many poor people do you think it would take to relieve the top 1% of their wealth? Surely it’s just a numbers game.

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      8 months ago

      I don’t remember if this is one of the pearl clutching boot licking communities that removes comments about violence targeted at people who harm all of us, so this might get removed, but:

      A lot of billionaires are just people that can fall down a flight of stairs like anyone else. I’m honestly surprised during the Twitter shakeup no one just shot Musk in the gut.

      There’s probably rules against porn too so I won’t describe him bleeding out.

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        8 months ago

        Describing musk bleeding out is like porn to you? I mean whatever floats your boat, i guess. I personally might call it an early christmas gift if it were to happen though.

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      8 months ago

      Justice system, electoral system, media, technology, military, police, food, etc. etc. All owned by them. It’s going to have to get very very bad before anything changes.