• somePotato@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    That’s 0,0058 billions.

    Barely over half percent of a billion.

    With 5.8 million you’re richer than 99% of Americans, and it takes 172 times that to reach a billion.

    Just to put it in perspective how stupidly rich a billionaire is, and how cruel it is that they exploit everyone else to make that pointlessly huge pile of money even more pointlessly huge.

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      8 months ago

      In the US, all it takes is one major competing illness and that person is right back to zero.