I think they don’t so much “remove” them as that billionaires tend to not have their money as “wage income” like the rest of us plebes.
They get “stock options”, which occasionally they can cash out, and then THAT counts as income, while the rest remains in the digital ether where it just auto-magically grows and grows, at the expense of all the wage-earners.
So they aren’t “earning” more (wages) than us, so much as they are treated as an entirely different type of being (capital).
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I live in the Jackson Hole, Wyoming area. Here we only have two classes. Rich as fuck (including a ton of billionaires), and barely surviving. If you don’t remove the outliers, this area would never receive any assistance for all those in need.
homesnatch@lemm.ee 1 month ago
The “median” should cover that unless the super rich are over 50% of the population.