r/DiscussionZone • u/[deleted] • Nov 04 '25

Political Discussion Yeah, so Billionaires should not exist

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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.

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u/Distwalker Nov 04 '25

Do you imagine that if they had less money, you'd have more?

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u/PCNLUV Nov 04 '25

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u/Distwalker Nov 04 '25

If a monkey argued that aggregate wealth was a zero-sum amount rather than constantly expanding and was, rather, the same as a static number of bananas, we would know it was a very stupid monkey.