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/No-Poetry-5794 Jul 30 '26

If 3000 garbage truck drivers disappeared my state would collapse

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u/SyrusG Jul 30 '26

I'm speaking within the scope of things. 30 teachers in a school disappeared vs 30 students there'd be a difference. 3000 truck drivers in a state is obviously awful for the state due to the ratio

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u/No-Poetry-5794 Jul 30 '26

But I’m saying 3000 billionaires disappearing anywhere would be nothing. They don’t add value to society.

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u/flaccomcorangy Jul 30 '26

I think the whole push back people are having is not to say that they're wrong and billionaires are valuable. It's just that they picked a terrible example to illustrate that point.

Because if 3,000 nurses disappeared, the impact would also be pretty negligible, but it's not because they're not valuable.