That’s such a small number. I bet there might be one or two near you even.
Is it physically imposing to have body guards, inaccessible private residences, and having all law enforcement agencies specifically care about your wellbeing?
There are only like 3,000 billionaires and they're not physically imposing people.
Submitted 2 weeks ago by ivanafterall@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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gustofwind@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We still outnumbered them, vastly. Let’s say each one employs 100 body guards. That’s still 303000 against 5.5 billion (adult population).
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
only if we are alone.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 weeks ago
One time I saw NK Jemisen , author of the broken earth trilogy give a talk. Someone asked about climate change and she said something like “there’s only a small number of people responsible for most of this problem, and we know where they live”
The audience cheered and clapped. The guy moderating the talk got real flustered.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The audience cheered and clapped.
And that was the full sum of their efforts.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
She’s a great author and person.
hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I couldn’t get into the first book, but hearing that story will motivate me to give it another shot. Well at least put it back on the list.
notabot@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Most of them are multi billionaires, their children will inherit their estates when they pass, and most have more than one child. Which means that, when they do pass, we’ll actually have more billionaires than we do now.
ccunning@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fucking hydras…
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So we pass laws regarding inheritance.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There are literally 8 billion people on Earth, for context. That’s roughly a 2,600,000:1 ratio.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There’s only one in my country AFAIK and he’s not even from here, just registered here for tax purposes.
Regardless, i would recognize him in the street. And I wouldn’t be the only one.
ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Might need to reduce that number back to 0
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Hey btw I really wanna meet a rich fella in DC
Heard he like playing golf, we could hang out sometime, maybe I can teach him a bit of hunting 😏
northernlights@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Yeah but they can hire people at things like Wagner.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They can, but do they? The richest people I knew were proud of being cheap. Drove themselves around, went out of their way to pay less for a can of Coke, that kind of thing. None had private security, and at least two were worth nine figures.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Had a rich friend in college, think ~10s of millions?( ¿I am totally making up a number, I had no idea) But they took me to a party in a remote neighborhood that had an airport complete with multiple helipads. Or at least there were a half dozen on the side off the tarmac.
You don’t know these people, they live in their own world’s. There’s a local chain of dealerships I’ve only heard whispers about the owner, he doesn’t go out in town.
northernlights@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Yeah actually the ones i’ve known were not in the US, where personnel is cheaper. They had drivers and nannies but no bodyguards that’s true.
D_C@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Most pieces of shit people, like billionaires and shitty corporate idiots and corrupt politicians, know that most of the rest of the human race are decent. And that the decent people won’t track them down and take revenge.
What the world needs right now are some only ever so slightly indecent people to step up, get the guillotines ready, and take out the scum bags.JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Not too indecent though…
call_me_xale@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
“I am that guy.”
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
We need a national Cousin Eddie to step in.
Dicska@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
know that most of the rest of the human race are decent
The proportional amount of people who happily support these regimes, and/or don’t care… I have doubts.
bastion@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
bullets are the beauty of the blistering sky.
Illogicalbit@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What a strange thing to think. They might not be physically imposing but they sure are in many other ways.
starlinguk@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think dealing arms, rigging elections and bribing politicians is imposing people, but what do I know.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
What about their private security?
realitista@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
How much do you think those guys really care about keeping some rich fuck safe? Enough to die for? I seriously doubt it.
northernlights@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
No but enough to kill you
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Do you really believe that the sight of OP is terrifying enough to sow fear into the hearts of ex-military, likely war criminal, murderous mercenaries looking for an excuse to hurt people?
The sudden increase of big talk and calls for violence on Lemmy in the past few weeks is beyond cringey and is no better than the MAGA fucks on Xitter and Truth cosplaying as “Meal Team Six”. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. If you want to be a “martyr for the cause” by taking out some billionaire or fascist, that’s your choice. Buy a rifle, a pistol, and a knife and go train. Just don’t get on the Internet and start trying to convince others to do what you are incapable or unwilling to do.
CONTEXT: I used to live in Fort Walton Beach, home of disproportionate number of “private security” guys. I have been part of the tech sector at the executive level for many years, and I currently live in Jackson Hole, Wyoming; home of an unusually high number of billionaires. I have met a lot of private security guys on the job or at the bar. Do not confuse them with rent-a-cops.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think you overestimate a lot of them.
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Does their security have security? Those guys can’t be in multiple places at once.
damnedfurry@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If you Internet Tough Guys were ever going to do anything, you would have already. This is nothing more than an impotent circlejerk, not to mention it also violates Rules 3 and 4 of this community.
El_guapazo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Just pretend it’s the 1800s when a settler can come in and destroy the local inhabitants- it’s called might makes right and now America grew. Just go in and take it. Manifest Destiny. Most of the maga crowd approved of the conquest and genocide./sarcasm
Dasus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
The thing that annoys me the most is the amount of money it takes to protect their wealth.
Even if you factor out tings like the police and the army, the money paid for private guards and security alone is in the hundreds of millions. Add in the accountants, lawyers, bankers, and associated finance gurus and you’ve got enough to make college free for everyone on Earth.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That about sums it up. They’ll spend a million to prevent giving a thousand to the poor.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And that goes for all of these fucking leeches: The beloved pop star. The legendary athlete. The really nice lady who gave away ten billion. The soft-spoken revered investment guru who cosplays as middle class.
Every damn one of them.
foggy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I mean to be fair I’d spend a dollar to stop people from asking me for dogecoin investments.
But I also like, work, and pay taxes and shit.
Klox@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sure, but it’s also proven to be more cost effective to just manipulate people and shift their costs. Some moron was arguing against California’s billionaire wealth tax bill because billionaires might have “liquidity problems” lmfao.
damnedfurry@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Considering the above “protecting your wealth” instead of simply protecting yourself from hostile third parties is extremely disingenuous.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That is some seriously bootlicking, euphemistic nonsense right there.