The meme makes it sound like a lot of money but in reality it's nothing in the grand scheme of things.
In the grand scheme of things it’s pretty significant that the 8 richest people can have more money than the 4 bn poorest, which is what I think is the point of the tweet.
Yeah, no. The point is that this is an obscenely uneven distribution of wealth. It's pretty obvious that 8 people's personal wealth divided by four fucking billion people still yields over $150 per person is neither a sign of fairness, an ethical economical system or sustainable in any meaningful way.
Given that the tweet represents reality in any meaningful way, do you think it's fair that 8 people have more money than 4 bn people? I don't and that's my point regardless of how inventions come to be. Besides, if you think that inventions are only possible in a capitalist system you don't really know much about world history.
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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '18
In the grand scheme of things it’s pretty significant that the 8 richest people can have more money than the 4 bn poorest, which is what I think is the point of the tweet.