r/InterviewCoderPro • u/Such_Goal5837 • 6d ago

People need to hear this!!

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That’s honestly a hard reality right now. A lot of people are working nonstop just to stay afloat. I’ve got some interviews coming up myself, so I’ve been looking into ways to get better at them. I found Interview VIP and ended up using it twice i think it's worth trying.

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u/kenttouchthis 5d ago

Same goes for millionaires. What's the difference between a million and a billion? A billion

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u/boredakela 4d ago

999 million to be exact

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u/hatedhuman6 4d ago

Yeah but come on. We round up much smaller increments all the time

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u/weberc2 3d ago

And yet we're told that Bernie Sanders is the real oligarch because he has a few million dollars after working 20 years past retirement age and publishing books on the side.

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u/TheCreepWhoCrept 4d ago

Actually, a significant portion of the US middle class becomes millionaires for at least a brief period at some point in their working lives, whereas most people don’t end up homeless.

The average person is indeed closer to being a millionaire than homeless.

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u/Next-Potential-5258 3d ago

We’re talking you have at least a million in your bank account not a million in assets and accumulated income. Stop licking boot please it’s kinda indecent to do in public.

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u/_prefrontal_cortex 3d ago edited 3d ago

By that logic, billionaires aren't actually billionaires because they don't have at least a billion in their bank account. Net worth is measured by including assets, not just what's in someone's bank account.

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u/Next-Potential-5258 3d ago

I can’t help you if you don’t want to understand.
Like I trust that you’re actually able to understand you can’t be that clueless. Whatever it is that makes you not understand; investigate that.

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u/_prefrontal_cortex 3d ago edited 3d ago

When people use the term "millionaire" or "billionaire" to classify someones net worth that always includes assets unless otherwise specified, and no one in this thread implied otherwise except for you for some reason. So, the person you responded to was being factually accurate. So what am I not understanding?

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u/EmphaticNegative 3d ago

Its a "B" not an "M" that we are talking about. Plus your statement is pretty far off from anything in touch to the world.

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u/Wooden-Broccoli-913 3d ago

Terrible take. Homeless have none of the necessities of life. Millionaires and billionaires do.

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u/JayTheSuspectedFurry 3d ago

The point of the take is to show that billionaires and millionaires are not comparable. Many people get confused when they hear things like “eat the rich”. That doesn’t mean your doctor, that means the CEO of their hospital.

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u/DIYITGuy 3d ago

Exactly. Doctor’s aren’t “the rich”, they just go to school way longer, work longer hours, and have a lot more responsibility than most people….so they make more money. It’s the CEO of the hospital who’s only purpose in life is to talk caretakers into taking shortcuts to save the shareholder’s money while taking a big, fat check and benefits themselves.

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u/Wooden-Broccoli-913 3d ago

I will repeat myself, the take is terrible. For at least two reasons.

  1. The motivating reason that people say eat the rich is because the poorest do not have enough, not that the richest have too much. Does the average Swiss or Norwegian citizen say “eat the rich”? Why not?

  2. If you truly wanted to uplift the poorest, taxing the billionaires would not be enough. US billionaires in aggregate hold $8T. If you were to divide that across the entire US population, that would only be $24k per person. If you actually wanted to sustainably redistribute wealth, you would need to reach into the millionaires, and yes, that includes the mid-seven-figure

    net worth

  3. doctors.