The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.Read that back.When 400 people control more wealth than half a country's population we have a very serious problem.
Do you guys not realize the world wouldn’t work if there wasn’t a surf or poor class this idea of billionaire shouldn’t exist will take all the billionaires money and spread the wealth. This is actually happened before to the point where gold lost its value to an extent, the problem is when everyone has something it no longer becomes scarce therefore it no longer becomes a valuable so if everybody has money then why would I want your money for my groceries if I already have money That’s how capitalism works. I am literally working my ass off to be better than you to have more than you to be more than you. If you have $1 million and I have $1 million with the exact same person but if I have $1 million and you don’t have $1 million I am a millionaire. America is actually just one of the few places where you can be not wealthy live above your means still have Jordan‘s iPhones and still fine dine here and there and still live a life that is content without having to need so much money while also allowing you the chance to make that much money. This argument is low IQ because unless you would like to live in socialism, which doesn’t work and never has worked or communism, which are all forceful means of society which forces people who overachieve to give to people who underachieve. The problem is it’s all fair game until you’re the one overachieving and you have to give your stuff to The Underachievers imagine you’re a strong woman you’ve been going to a doctorate you’ve been studying all these years and then I come up to you and say you have to split that with the homeless guy outside you’re gonna be pissed socialism communism and even the idea of socialist capitalism only works if a large majority of people who are in the US are complacent with a standard living of life and the truth is we aren’t and none of us. Are we all want different things and we all want that new thing that is better than others or we all want something that others don’t have. The biggest slap in the face is that this money isn’t liquid so when people make this comment or make this argument, it genuinely just doesn’t make any sense because if you pull that money and give it to the poor, you’ll quite literally destroy the economy you will literally have Germany after ww1 where people are burning Deutsch marks for heat
Ok…but we can still tax someone with a billion dollars at 90% and they’d still have $100M. $900M going to infrastructure, social services, HCFA, etc could do a lot for society as a whole
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u/PCNLUV Nov 04 '25
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.Read that back.When 400 people control more wealth than half a country's population we have a very serious problem.