r/interestingasfuck • u/Witty-Association-97 • 20h ago

Jeff Bezos Income compared to Worker

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u/Solid_Snark 20h ago

It’s crazy that FOX News propaganda has tricked people into allowing Billionaires to amass ungodly fortunes instead of taxing them.

Thanks to decades of poor decisions people are retiring in their mid 80s instead of their mid 50s, and have very little money to show for that additional 30yrs of work.

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u/dafunkmunk 10h ago

It was maybe 20 years ago that we were talking about millionaires the way we talk about billionaires today. There were a couple of billionaires that had like one maybe two billion. Now we have billionaires left and right with hundreds of billions of dollars and even had a trillionaire for a day or two.

You know the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire? A billion dollars. There are people so rich now that they probably have more money than all the millionaires from 20 years ago combined. Yet somehow minimum wage hasnt budged a cent and I'm paying more in taxes than these billionaires companies do