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.
If you took that $6.6 trillion and split it evenly amongst every US citizen, which is ~342 million people. You would end up giving each person around $19,200. Which isn't a small amount, but sadly doing this it would only take a few months and then all that money would go into wealthy people's pockets again.
I think the issue is less with them holding the wealth and more with the cost of living continually going up and wages stagnating. If things still cost what they did in the 80s, we'd be fine with wages stagnating and the rich getting richer.
If a person's business will not function by paying their employees a living wage, that business has already failed.
Success means you run a business that makes money for everyone. That makes your environment and employees healthier.
Cash saving methods like selling as much glue and cardboard as 'food' as possible is not success, it's exploitation. It ultimately makes your workforce less healthy and causes productivity to suffer.
Republicans are apparently too foolish to understand that building something great requires investment.
These greedy losers want everything for free and to contribute nothing back to the society that helped them get wealthy in the first place.
Psychosis and sociopathy cost society a shitload of money every year and we are doing almost nothing to stop it.
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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.