Comment on Some rich person could cause a lot of chaos by bailing everyone out of jail that they can
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’d love to see someone do the math, I’d bet one dude could bail out every eligible person in the US. Probably wouldn’t even have to be Musk/Bezos/Gates.
klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol 22 hours ago
It’d cost about $36 billion, assuming roughly 665,000 people are on bail nationwide in the US, and the average Pennsylvania (couldn’t find anywhere else) bail amount of $55,400. There are ~902 billionaires in the US according to Forbes, though some of them are likely under $36 billion.