Billionaires are extremists

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• vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s an interesting observation.

  Given the 3,028 billionaires among the 8 billion people on Earth, that’s the definition of extreme.

  Those 3,028 people, or 0.000036% of the global population, hold more than 99% of all wealth.

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  • sus@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Those 3,028 people, or 0.000036% of the global population, hold more than 99% of all wealth.

    The actual number is closer to 9% than 99%. This is probably a broken telephone from “the combined wealth of billionaires is larger than the GDP of 99% of countries” where notably yearly income and wealth are not directly comparable.

    Better (and true) things to say are “The global top 1% have more wealth than the bottom 95% combined” or “The richest 0.01% in the US have tripled their wealth in the last 30 years, while 90% of people have been treading water”

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    • vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      www.thecanary.co/…/billionaires-wealth-2025/

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  • grindemup@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Holy shit dude, being in a minority group does not.make you an extremist. Would you call people with Field’s disease extremists too? No, of course not. But you would call them extremists if they believed that everyone who doesn’t have Field’s disease should be enslaved or to donate all the Earth’s resources for their well-being. Likewise with billionaires.

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    • Mr_Fish@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Using Field’s disease there is a huge false equivalence, for two main reasons.

      A: you can’t just choose not to have Field’s, but a billionaire is capable of donating their wealth to charity or something, and no longer being a billionaire.

      B: the existence of people with Field’s has little to no impact on the average person outside that group, but the existence of billionaires massively changes

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    • vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You don’t think that 3,028 people holding 99% of global wealth is extreme?

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• pipi1234@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Billionaires are humanity’s cancer.

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• TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Wealth radicalizes people.

  Look at what it did to Osama bin Laden.

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• melfie@lemy.lol ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Worshiping money above all else is similar to worshiping a god above all else, and can both lead people down a path to extremism.

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• entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Well yeah, they exist at the extremes of society and push almost exclusively for their own further empowerment.

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• E_coli42@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I hate minorities (billionaires)

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• remon@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Do you want to elaborate why that is so obvious to you?

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  • BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Because they thought it was a rational goal when they turned millionaire (might have been born millionaire), and Elmo wants to be the first trillionaire

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    • remon@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Ah ok, so you’re just using the word “extremists” to mean someone that does something extreme. That makes more sense.

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