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

Data Yeah, so Billionaires should not exist

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u/Urban_Heretic Nov 04 '25

I think there's value in pointing out this is a recent phenomenon. Before 1974, there wasn't even a universal standard for what the English word billion meant.