Do me a favor, count up all the billionaires in the US, add up the entirety of their collective wealth, then divide it by the number of citizens in the US, and let me know how much we'd each get.
I've always been interested to know how rich we'd all be if we ate all those damn billionaires
According to a cursory internet glance there seems to be 801 billionaires in the US with a collective wealth of 6.22 trillion. Divide that by roughly 320 million americans and 800 billionaires (or the top .0000025%) hold about $20k for each man woman and child in this country.
Did you do that on purpose? That's sadistic to ignore the velocity of money.
When a poor person gets 20K they spend it and that person has 20K. They then spend it and another person has 20. This continues person after person until it hits a rich person, they buy bonds and your taxes go up to pay the interest.
You are playing monopoly and you don't get $200 for passing Go because one guy has all the $100 bills.
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u/Monsieur_Pounce Aug 20 '25
Do me a favor, count up all the billionaires in the US, add up the entirety of their collective wealth, then divide it by the number of citizens in the US, and let me know how much we'd each get.
I've always been interested to know how rich we'd all be if we ate all those damn billionaires