Billionaires 7 years ago:
https://web.archive.org/web/20171004002738/https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/
Billionaires today:
Is this inflation corrected? Cause an arbitrary line across 7 years of inflation is gonna be crossed…
tail -n +2 listAbove | cut -f 2 > DeathNote.txt
kamala harris’ proposed tax on unrealized gains seems like a great idea rn
Hey, look, I found the thing the US is still number 1 at!
There are probably several Russian Oligarchs missing from this list because their wealth is mostly dark money. Rumor has it Putin is the wealthiest man in the world and has been for some time.
And that’s just the wealth that we know about
Looks like Sam Walton would be atop the list had he figured out immortality.
Probably would top this list as the most decent person of the bunch too. He wasn’t a saint, but I haven’t seen evidence that he was rotten to the core, either.
Billionaires are a political choice as much as homelessness. They are allowed to exist because nobody does anything about it.
There was an article celebrating the fact that we’re on our way to having the first trillionare.
I wanted to die. It’s so insanely fucking disgusting
Look at all our WONDERFUL job creators amassing their dragon hoards!
On the other hand, if we all work really hard, go the extra mile, burn the midnight oil… we can make it happen faster for that special someone.
Why would you go around celebrating untreated and ignored mental illnesses?
When is it ever enough?
It’s almost seems like the main thing you need to make money is money
“Inflation probably” -dumbasses in denial
Oil princes are far richer than this
How has musk maintained his companies’ valuations? Particularly Tesla.
Blatant fraud
A boring distopia is already even a single person having more than a single billion.
Yup, there was that post a while back, like you reach a billion, you get a plaque that says “congrats you won capitalism” and then they start at 0 again
For real, like Prestige in Call of Duty
If my math is correct and we taxed everything over 100 billion at 100% we’d get over 900 billion in taxes. Nearly a trillion bucks if we limited these assholes to a measly 100 billion.
A trillion bucks, but not in cash; in shares of those companies. Try to sell it all for cash and you tank the share price. People lose their jobs, pension funds that own shares in those companies lose value.
That’s the trouble with taxing wealth. It’s not liquid like income. All that net worth is tied up in the companies and not easily accessed.
I’d be okay with the govt owning shares, honestly. That way the public would get a voice in how these megacorps operate, and that voice would get bigger the larger the company becomes.
