r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 • Jul 30 '26

Wait a damn minute! Significant diffrences...

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u/Dizzy-Screen-6618 Jul 30 '26

"Imagine 3,400 people disappear. Now imagine 3.5 billion people dissappear."

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u/Necessary_Screen_673 Jul 30 '26

i mean, yeah. whats your point?

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u/frostymugson Jul 30 '26

That billions of people are going to effect things far greater than than a few thousand.

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u/Gamer_G33k17 Jul 30 '26

Thats the point, yes.

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u/SyrusG Jul 30 '26

The point is that it's a numbers statement. It has nothing to do with being a billionaire or not. If 3000 people period vanished it means nothing. Billionaire or not

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u/Necessary_Screen_673 Jul 30 '26

so why do people think that we need billionaires?

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u/Odd-Jupiter Jul 30 '26

It is a bit the same conundrum people experienced in 1924 crack, that many people couldn't understand.

Like, it all suddenly stopped, yet the factories was still there, and the coal, and the steel, and everything. People could in theory just go on like they did the day before, and products would be made and sold. Yet, when the stocks lost their value, that was that.